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Pigeons and Doves That Does Not Consist of Too Much Extra CALIFORNIA LIAISON Pick up Seed fruit • AMERICAN FEDERATION OF AVICULTURE pigeons Dedicated to conservation of bird wildlife through encouragement of captive breeding programs, scientific research, and education of the general public. MEMBER NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS and American Cockatiel Society, Inc.• American Budgerigar Society, Inc. • International Dove Society National Finch & Softbill Society • National Parrot Association • National Cockatiel Society • International Softbill Society • Southeastern Aviculturists Association Avicultural Society of America • Society of Parrot Breeders and Exhibitors doves African Love Bird Society • Avicultural Council of Southem Africa MEMBER CLUBS by Lynn Hall ALABAMA FLORIDA (continued) NEW JERSEY Camarillo, California Bird Club of Greater Birmingham Exotic Bird Club of Florida South Jersey Bird Club Central Alabama Aviculture Society Gold Coast Exotic Bird Club,lnc. NEW MEXICO In the fall of 1984 1 went to]akarta North Alabama Aviculture Society Greater Brandon Avian Society Flying Feathers Aviculture Society to try to find pheasant pigeons, of Rocket City Cage Bird Club Jacksonville Avicultural Society, Inc. ARIZONA Miami Parrot Club, Inc. NEW YORK which I found nine, and made Broome County Bird Club Arizona Aviculture Society Ocala Cage Bird Society, inc. Buffalo Hookbill Association arrangements to import them. As Arizona Seed Crackers Society Panhandle Aviculture Society Finger Lakes Cage Bird Association long as I was going to the trouble of Avicultural Society ofTucson Polk County Avicultural Society Greater Rochester Hookbill L.O.O.N.Y. Central Suncoast Avian Society getting permits and quarantine space, o Sunshine State Cage Bird Association Tu rkey Flats L.O. .N.Y. Society, Inc. Rochester Cage Bird Club it seemed wise to bring in other doves CALIFORNIA West Florida Avian Society, Inc. NORTH CAROLINA and pigeons with them. There were Antelope Valley Bird Society GEORGIA Charlotte Metrolina Cage Bi rd Society twelve or so superbs (Ptilinopus Aviary Association of Kem Smoky Mountain Cage Bird Society Avicultural Association of Georgia Cage Bird Society superbus) and a small number of Triad Exotic Bird Club San Francisco ILLINOIS black napes (Ptilinopus melano­ OHIO Budgerigar Research Association lIIini Bird Fanciers spila), along with other seed eating Butte County Bird Club INDIANA Apple Seed Bird Fanciers Cieveland Cage Bird Society, Inc. Califomia Game Breeders Indiana Bird Fanciers doves and pigeons. In years past I had Association Golden Crescent Cage Bird Club a pair of green imperial pigeons Capitol City Bi rd Society IOWA Mid-American Exotic Bi rd Central Califomia Cage Bird Club Mid-America Cage Bird Society Society, Inc. which were very easy to keep and Coastal Avian Society of Capitola KANSAS OKLAHOMA breed. The availability of fruit doves Contra Costa Avian Society Kansas Avicuitural Society, Inc. Bird Fanciers of Oklahoma was poor, but with this import I really Finch Society of San Diego County KENTUCKY OREGON Foothill Bird Fanciers got involved with them. Fork & Feather Bird Club Kentuckiana Cage Bird Club Cascade BUdgerigar Society Emerald Exotic Bird Club In 1985 I received more superbs Golden Gate Avian Society LOUISIANA Northwest Bird Club Golden West Game Breeders and Gulf South Bird Ciub, inc. and black napes and a small number Rose City Exotic Bird Club Bird Club MARYLAND of black backs (Ptilinopus cineta) Hi Desert Bird Club Baltimore Bird Fanciers,lnc. PENNSYLVANIA with a promise of more. I foolishly let Hookbill Hobbyists of Southem Maryland Cage Bird Society, Inc. Anthracite Bird Club Califomia Chester County Bird Breeders go of pairs and was left with five Inland Game Bird Breeders MASSACHUSETTS Delaware Valley Bird Club males. Of course, I never received any Association Berkshire Cage Bird Friends Unlimited Erie Cage Bird Club Long Beach Bird Breeders Boston Cockatiel Society, Inc. Greater Pittsburgh Cage Bird Society more black backs. Then, in 1986, I Norco Valley Bird Breeders Boston Society for Avicultu re, Inc. Philadelphia Avicultural Society received some pink necked doves North County Aviculturists Exotic Cage Bird Society of York Area Pet Bird Club (Ptilinopus porphyres) from Singa­ Orange County Bird Breeders New Engiand TENNESSEE pore. San Diego County Bird Breeders Massachusetts Cage Bird Greater Memphis Bird Club Association Association, Inc. In 1987 I received a few pairs of TEXAS San Diego County Canary Club Western New England Cage Bird pink necked green pigeons (Treron Santa Clara Valley Canary & Society Dallas Cage BI rd Society Exotic Bird Club MICHIGAN UTAH vernens) and thick-billed green Simi Valley Bird Society Great Lakes Avicultural Society Avicultural Society of Utah pigeons (Treron curvirostra), also South Bay Bird Club Lansing Caged Bird Club Utah Pheasant Society from Singapore. The same year I pur­ South Coast Finch Society Mid-Michigan Bird Club VIRGINIA chased a pair of ]ambu fruit doves Valley of Paradise Bird ClUb Motor City Bird Breeders,lnc. Commonwealth Avicultural Society West Valley Bird Society Town & Country Feathered Friends National Capitai Bird Club (Ptilinopus jambu) from an importer Westem Bird Breeders Society MINNESOTA Parrot Breeders Association in southern California. These were COLORADO MinnesotaCage Bird Association Peninsula Caged Bird Society new imports. All birds I have had Front Range Avian Society MISSOURI Tri-State Bird Club & Foundation Rocky Mountain Society of were new, wild-trapped birds which, AViculture,lnc. Gateway Parrot Club WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT Greater Kansas City Avicultural Avicultural Society of Puget Sound 1feel, are the easiest to work with. Society Cascade Canary Bree ders In 1986 the black napes went to Connecticut Association for Missouri Cage Bird Association Association AViculture,lnc. Greater Spokane Avicultural Society work. It wasn't long until I found out New England Finch Fanciers MONTANA FLORIDA Western Montana Aviculturists South Sound Exotic Bird Society that black napes pick their own nest Washington Budgerigar Society, Inc. Aviary & Cage Bi rd Society of NEVADA spot whether there is a nest or not ... South Florida Las Vegas Avicultural Society WISCONSIN off the perches, in the feed bowl, or Milwaukee Bird Society, Ltd. Bird Club of Manatee NEW HAMPSHIRE Wisconsin Cage Bird Club, Inc. any place they happen to be. One pair Central Rorida Bird Breeders Birds of aFeather Avicultural Society Association insisted on a feed bowl. So, after For informati~n about contacting ~ny of these member clubs, please call losing three or four eggs, I picked the that .cJ~b s c~osest state coordmator. There is a state coordinator egg out of the fruit bowl, cleaned out listing With phone numbers elsewhere in this publication. the bowl, built a small nest, replaced 6 June / July 1989 1989 OFFICERS THOMAS C. MARSHALUPresident(703) 759-5978 PHYLLIS MARTIN/1st Vice President (813) 839-4751 DAVIS KOFFRON/2nd Vice President(602) 268-9237 VICKI FLETCHER/Chief Financial Officer (206) 841-2705 KAYE BREDE HORST/Corresponding Secretary (703) 281-4136 VICKI FLETCHER/Executive Secretary (206) 841-2705 REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS Dallas D. Johnson/Northeastern (301) 540-6198 • Chuck Saffell/Southeastern (818) 722-0997 Bill Wilson/Mideastern (815) 568-5611 • James McCabe/North Central (612) 753-5241 Jack Clinton-Eitniear/South Central (512) 828-5306 • Opal Crosser/Western (602) 853-0348 Dick Dickinson/Northern California (408) 248-1641 • Linda Sun/Southern California (714) 688-4907 Jeri WrighVNorthwest (206) 838-9802 LEGAL COUNSEL VICE PRESIDENT LEGISLATIVE VICE PRESIDENT the egg, and they went right back and Gary Lilienthal (617) 542-7070 Janet Lilienthal (617) 542-7070 hatched and raised their young. STATE COORDINATORS Black napes do not seem to build a Amy Worell, DVM/State Coordinator Chaitman (818) 704-0223 nest - two or three sticks and that's it. Another pair kept trying to balance ALABAMA KENTUCKY OHIO their egg on a small branch that was Charles Reaves (205) 892-0015 Thomas B. Angel, Jr., DVM (606) 371-4929 Michaeleen Rogers (419) 639-3673 really a perch. I tired of this and ALASKA LOUISIANA OKLAHOMA Jim Bauman (907) 344-0623 Tom Snowden, MD (405) 478-3197 wired a basket to the branch, which ARIZONA MAINE OREGON seemed to make them happy as they Sunny Clarkson (602) 943-0614 Archie Fairbrother (207) 394-2252 Ron Sweere (503) 324-2473 have been using it ever since. ARKANSAS MARYLAND PENNSYLVANIA In black napes, both sexes incubate. Roddy Gabel (301) 585-9647 Brenda Geesey (717) 854-2604 The egg hatches in twelve to fourteen CALIFORNIA (NORTH) MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND days and the young grow more rap­ Laurella Desborough (415) 372-6174 Dennise Cabral (617) 586-3293 idly than any bird with which I have CALIFORNIA (SOUTH) MICHIGAN SOUTH CAROLINA Aletta M. Long (213) 596-7429 Mike Underwood (517) 349-3438 Ted Stephens (803) 279-3374 had experience. They leave the nest COLORADO MINNESOTA SOUTH DAKOTA in seven to nine days and are very Susan Baker (303) 223-2452 Royce King (605) 393-1720 small, about one fourth the size of CONNECTICUT MISSISSIPPI TENNESSEE their parents. They have fully devel­ Walter J. Willoughby (203) 528-7296 Jerry Pace (601) 781-2364 oped wings but little more. The par­ DELAWARE MISSOURI TEXAS (NORTH) ents are very attentive and one or the Diane Korolog (302) 762-0819 Gus Piros (314) 837-3063 FLORIDA (NORTH) MONTANA TEXAS (SOUTH) other is always close by with the Cal Kimura (407) 892-7661 Fred Frey (406) 549-0530 Danny Gonzalez (512) 687-3525 youngster under their wing. The FLORIDA (SOUTH) NEBRASKA UTAH young are dependent on their parents Tom Ireland (407) 968-4214 Rex Kennedy (801) 571-6183 until about five or six weeks old. GEORGIA NEVADA VERMONT With the first head feathers they can Mimi Shepherd, DVM (404) 377-6319 be sexed. Black napes are easy to keep HAWAII NEW HAMPSHIRE VIRGINIA F. Lawrence Brandt (603) 642-5074 Dick I~ (804) 898-5090 and should be common in all large, IDAHO NEW JERSEY WASHINGTON softbill displays as they seem very Arnold Davis (208) 775-3609 Carol Bauer (201) 662-1400 June Halfon (206) 722-JUNE peaceful. ILLINOIS NEW MEXICO WASHINGTON, D.C.
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