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...... :.if!..,:!-. ~QrCh Over 3000 birds-exceptionally 1 \%"q tame, talking, talented birds HANDFEEDING: Baby Napes, Military macaws, Yellow heads, Build A Bird Feeder Sunflower Seed Feeder Red heads, Bare eyed cockatoos Materials needed: Three 2-liter PROVEN PAIRS: For About A Buck; plastic soft-drink bottles, a 7-inch Yellow napes, Double yellows, Military dessert topping lid, a babyfood jarlid, a macaws, Tucuman Amazons, Crimson wings coping saw, a single-edged razor blade Wrought iron cages, l' - 7' tall Household Trash or "X-acto" knife, all-weather rubber (314) 334·8924 day Can Be Turned Into sealant, 8 inches of wire or monofila (314) 334·4969 eve ment fishing line, a small nail or 218 William Winter Feeding Stations 7/I6-inch bit and hand drill, a metal or Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 wood screw. Soak a 2-liter bottle in warm, soapy Americans spend over $54 million water to clean inside and remove label. each year on backyard birdfeeding sta Pull off the colored plastic base, but tions and more than $500 million on save it for use as a measuring device bird seed. when cutting the feeding holes. Now the Fish andWildlife Servicehas a way for you to build your ownwinter feeding station for next to nothing. In fact, the Interior Department agency's two new novel birdfeeding WHI TE-BREAS TED designs canhelp makea big dent inyour NORMAL COLORS load oftrash, as well as supply you with quick and easy crafts ideas for school children. Where the price ofmany commercial birdfeeders oftenstartat $10, these two ~ Horschol Froy designs can be built for about a dollar, depending upon the household mater 1170 Firwood Dr. ials and simple tools you might already Pittsburgh, PA. 15243 have at hand. Both feeders can be built (412) 561-7194 in about an hour. The first, a sunflower feeder, will draw chickadees, nuthatches, cardi nals, and other winter residents, according to Fish and Wildlife biologists Alex Knight and Willard M. Spaulding,Jr., who created the designs. The other, a smaller, thistle seedfeeder, Step 1: Using a second 2-liter bottle, is popular with goldfinches, wild make a perpendicular cut with the cop canaries, pine siskins, and redpolls. ing saw at the bottle's mouth down to "A person doesn't have to be rich to the point at which the neck collar enjoy thewealthofAmerica'swildlife," begins. Make a second cut at, and says Fish and Wildlife Service Director slightly above, the collar perpendicular • Zebras • Societies Robert A. Jantzen. "With a little inge to the first cut. Discard the cut piece. • Gouldians nuity, anyone can bring wildlife to the Cut the remaining section of the neck • Rares back doorstep, opening a whole new and collar awayfrom the bottle, leaving lOVEBIJU)S world for adults as well as children. • Peachface & Mutations at least a I-inchflange ofplastic beneath • Fishers These two birdfeeders provide a win the collar. Using a third 2-liter bottle, • Blue Masks SHIPPED ANYWHERE • Black Masks IN THE UNITED STATES dow on that world that's quick and repeat these same steps. The twospouts From L.A. International inexpensive. It even helps solve the that result will be used as feeding holes, GUAlt'\l'{fEED QUAI.!TY dilemma of what to do with those with their neck pieces preventing seed BUDGIES CANARIES throwaway bottles." spill-out. INDIAN RINGNECKS Directions for each feeder follow, Step 2: Cut two I-inch circular holes GOLDEN MANTLE ROSELLAS illustrated with step-by-step instruc across from each other in the sides of Visitors Welcome By Prior Appointment Only tions on pages 16 and 17. the first bottle. The top of the plastic Continued on page 16 14 I _ • EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR OF TOPPER BIRD RANCH DIETS® (LOS ANGELES, ORANGE & VENTURA COUNTIES) The only total nutrient seed diets available in the U.S. Small Hookbill • Large Hookbill • Canary Total Diet Finch • BUdgie ***DISCOUNT BIRD SUPPLIES*** I _ • *DECORATIVE WOOD STANDS PRE-FAB AVIARIES *HEALTH PRODUCTS INDIVIDUAL BREEDING CAGES Vionate METAL FEEDERS *FEED Scalex BIRD TOYS Topper Bird Ranch Diet® Kwik-Stop *CAGES Petamine & Budgimine Bird Defenders Steiner Bulk Cuttle Bone Avivite All Purpose Bulk Spray Millet Keet Life Wrought Iron Canary Song Food Bitter Apple *WOOD PRODUCTS * PLANIT PLASTIC PRODUCTS Nest Boxes METAL NEST BOXES Feeders CROCKS & CROCK HOLDERS Carrying Cages AVIARY WIRE Hospital Cages Ladders & Swings BIRD BOOKS Playpens SMALL NUMBERED OPEN BANDS & TOOLS
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Step 5: Drill or punch two small, parallel holes in the bottle top. String wire or monoftlament line through the $16.95 holes and tie. Once the bottle is filled Order Your COpy Now From with sunflower seeds, screw the top PALOS VERDES BIRD FARM INC. onto the bottle. P.O. Box 1305, Torranc.e, CA. 90505 Include $1.50 postage and handling. California residents add 6% sales tax. Retai I Store - 4146 West Pacific Coast Hwy, Torrance, CA 90505 (across the street from Sambo's) SUNFLOWER SEED FEEDER
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16 Thistle Seed Feeder Materials needed: I-liter plastic soft FOR ALL CASES OF LOW drink bottle; three or four 3/I6-inch THISTLE SEED BODY TEMPERATURE! wide, 5-inch long wooden dowels FEEDER Safe-Durable (straight, hardwood sticks will do); a WATER·lINED WARMERS single-edged razor blade or "X-acto" with INCUBATOR DOME knife; 8 inches ofwire ormonofilament lor Pampered Pels Newborns & Convale5cenl fishing Line, a metal eye screw, a hand DOGS. CATS PRIMATES' drill and small bit. BIRDS & REPTILES Soak the bottle in warm, soapy water to clean inside and remove label. Pull offthe colored plastic base and discard.
Step 1: Make small parallel cuts in each side of the bottle with the razor blade, "X-acto" knife, or hand drill. Sturdy AB~ Plastic. Insert the dowels as perches. Alternate-. the radial alignment of each perch so that all sides of the bottle can be used.
Step 2: At points about I inch below each dowel, make small lI4-inch long, lI8-inch wide incisions through the ~-- .. with..... bottle for feeding holes. Don't make the :-(~ Humidifier . -'<---U cuts too large - the correct size will o and allow birds to pick out individual seeds o Nebulizer yet prevent spillage. (A wood-burning 7'5'. 100' F Thermostat Control needle will also make the right-sized Send for free Brochure: feeding holes.) Thermocare SAFE HEAT P.O. Drawer YY SAVES LIVES Step 3: Bore a 7/I6-inch hole in the Incline Village, NV 89450 (702) 831-1201 bottom of the bottle and insert the eye screw. When suspended, the bottom becomes the top of the feeder. Affix wire or monofilament line to the eye screw and tie. Step] Gas line antifreeze plastic bottles pro vide an easy way to fill both feeders BANTA'S with seed. Cut a funnel from a I2-ounce BIRD FARM bottle with a coping saw about halfway up. The necks of this funnel and both feeder bottles will mate, providing a We OfferAll Types Of Birds convenient 'way to fill them without spillage. ow that you've built your bird Finch - Keets - Cockatiels feeders, what should you feed backyard Conures - Amazons - Macaws birds? In some cases, not the birdseed Love Birds - Lorys you commonly find at the grocery store. The Fish and Wildlife Service's report, "Relative Attractiveness of Dif ferent Foods at Wild Bird Feeders," will • IMPORTED BIRDS tell you what seed mixtures draw the • SURGICALLY SEXED BIRDS most sought-after species where you • DOMESTIC HANDFED BABIES live. For a copy, send a check or money • TAME & TALKING PET BIRDS order for $2.75 to the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Print ing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 (specify the report by title and by stock number 024-010-00587-4).• Write or Call for Price List
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