AMERICAN FEDERATION OF AVICULTURE . Dedicated to conservation of wildlife through encouragement of captive breeding programs, scientific research, and education ofthe general public.

MEMBER NATIONAL &INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Breeding the African Love Bird Society American Budgerigar Society, Inc. International Dove Society American Pigeon Fanciers' Council National Finch &Softbill Society National Parrot Association British Columbia Avicultural Society National Cockatiel Society International Softbill Society Southeastern Aviculturists Association Avicultural Society of America Pied Barbet Society of Parrot Breeders and Exhibitors

MEMBER CLUBS at the ALABAMA FLORIDA (continued) NEW YORK Bird Club of Greater Birmingham Jacksonville Avicultural Society, Inc. Feathered Friends Bird Club Central Alabama Avicultuie Society Ocala Cage Bird Society, Inc. Finger Lakes Cage Bird Association ARIZONA Polk County Avicultural Society Greater Rochester Hookbill North Carolina Arizona Aviculture Society Suncoast Avian Society Association Avicultural Society of Tucson Sunshine State Cage Bird Rochester Cage Bird Club Seed Crackers Society, Inc. NORTH CAROLINA Tropical Cockatiel Club of Miami Charlotte Metrolina Cage Bird CALIFORNIA West Florida Avian Society, Inc. Zoological Park Aviary Association of Kern Society Avicultural Association of GEORGIA Smoky Mountain Cage Bird Society Greater Atlanta Pigeon and Triad Exotic Bird Club San Francisco by Ron Morris Budgerigar Research Association Dove Club OHIO Butte County Bird Club ILLINOIS Cleveland Cage Bird Society Curator ofBirds California Game Breed ers Illini Bird Fanciers Golden Crescent Cage Bird Club Association McLean County Pet Bird Club Mid-American Exotic Bird Capitol City Bird Society Mid-West Hookbill Club Society, Inc. Central California Cage Bird Club Piasa Cage Bird Club OKLAHOMA The barbets, Family Capitonidae, are Contra Costa Avian Society IOWA Bird Fanciers of Oklahoma comprised of 81 of 13 genera, Finch Society of San Diego County Mid-America Cage Bird Society Oklahoma Cage Bird Society Foothill Bird Fanciers distributed through the African, Asian, Fork &Feather Bird Club KANSAS OREGON Golden Gate Avian Society Capital City Bird Club of Kansas Columbia Canary Club and South American tropics. They are Golden West Game Breeders and Kansas Avicultural Society, Inc Exotic Bird Club of Oregon related to woodpeckers, , Bird Club KENTUCKY Northwest Bird Club jacanas, and other members of the Great Western Budgerigar Society Kentuckiana Bird Society Northwest Pigeon Fanciers Hi Desert Bird Club Association Order . LOUISIANA Hookbill Hobbyists of Southern Rose City Exotic Bird Club 43 species ofseven genera ofbarbets California Capital Area Avicultural Society Central Louisiana Budgerigar PENNSYLVANIA Inland Game Bird Breeders Central Pennsylvania Cage Bird Club are found in Africa. One of these is the Association Society Gulf South Bird Club Chester County Bird Breeders pied barbet, Tricholaema leucomelan. Long Beach Bird Breeders Delaware Valley Bird Club Norco Valley Bird Breeders MARYLAND Greater Pittsburgh Cage Bird Society The pied barbet is primarily black and North County Aviculturists Baltimore Bird Fanciers, Inc. Philadelphia Avicultural Society white as the name suggests. The upper Orange County Bird Breeders Maryland Cage Bird Society, Inc. York Area Pet Bird Club parts and wings are black with yellow San Diego County Bird Breeders MASSACHUSETTS Association TENNESSEE Boston Cockatiel Society, Inc. Greater Memphis Bird Club flecks in the mantle and wing coverts San Diego County Canary Club Boston Society for Aviculture, Inc. Middle Tennessee Cage Bird Club and yellow edges of the flight feathers. San Gabriel Valley Parakeet Exotic Cage Bird Society of Association New England TEXAS The forehead is red, the underparts Santa Clara Valley Canary &Exotic Massachusetts Cage Bird Abilene Bird Club white with a black bib. Young Bird Club Association, Inc. Alamo Exhibition Bird Club Simi Valley Bird Society Western New England Cage Bird Dallas Cage Bird Society resemble adults but lack the red South Bay Bird Club Society Fort Worth Bird Club forehead. This species is distributed South Coast Finch Society Gulf Coast Aviculture Association Valley of Paradise Bird Club MICHIGAN Houston Cage Bird Association throughout South Africa. West Valley Bird Society Ann Arbor Cage Bird Club Parrot People Club of Houston The North Carolina Zoological Park Western Bird Breeders Society Great Lakes Avicultural Society Mid-West Canary Club, Inc UTAH acquired three pied barbets in COLORADO Motor City Bird Breeders, Inc. Utah Pheasant Society Colorado Cage Bird Association VIRGINIA December, 1985. After a routine Rocky Mountain Society of MINNESOTA Minnesota Cage Bird Association National Capital Bird Club quarantine, the birds were introduced Aviculture, Inc. Parrot Breeders Association CONNECTICUT MISSISSIPPI Peninsula Caged Bird Society into the zoo's tropical forest exhibit, the Connecticut Association for Mississippi Budgerigar Society RJ. Reynolds Forest Aviary. This exhibit AViculture, Inc. WASHINGTON MISSOURI Avicultural Society of Puget Sound is a 13,000 square foot, glass-enclosed, DELAWARE Missouri Cage Bird Association Cascade Canary Breeders walk-through with over 2,000 tropical Delaware Avicultural Association NEBRASKA Association FLORIDA Greater Omaha Cage Bird Society Greater Spokane Avicultural Society plants that range from ground-covers Aviary &Cage Bird Society of Northwest Exotic Bird Society NEVADA Northwest Old Variety Canary and bromeliads to 30 foot fig trees. The South Florida Las Vegas Avicultural Society Bird Club of Manatee Association diverse bird collection includes among Northern Nevada Cage Bird Society Central Florida Bird Breeders South Sound Exotic Bird Society its 55 species, another African barbet, Gold Coast Exotic Bird Club, Inc NEW HAMPSHIRE Washington Budgerigar Society, Inc. Greater Brandon Avian Society Birds of aFeather Avicultural Society WISCONSIN the crested (Trachyphonus vaillantii) New Hampshire Avicultural Society Greater Miami Avicultural Milwaukee Bird Society, Ltd. which has inhabited the exhibit since it Society, Inc. Wisconsin Cage Bird Club, Inc. opened in August, 1982. Several palm logs were supplied for the crested and For informati?n about contacting any of these member clubs, please call that club s closest state coordinator. There is astate coordinator they have used them well, rearing 34 listing with phone numbers elsewhere in this publication. progeny in five years. Two of the pied barbets paired off

6 April/May 1988 1988 OFFICERS THDMAS C. MARSHALL/President (703) 759·5978 PHYLLIS MARTIN/tst Vice President (813) 839-4751 DAVIS KDFFRDN/2nd Vice President (602) 268·9237 DAVID M. RICHARDS/Chie/ Financia/ Officer (714) 839·1916 KAYE BREOEHDRST/Corresponding Secretary (703) 281-4136 VICKI FLETCHER/Executive Secretary (206) 841·2705

REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS Dallas D. Johnson/Northeastern (301) 540·6198· Chuck Clift/Southeastern (205) 285-6522 Tony Silva/Mideastern (312) 447·3147· To be announced/North Central· Rex Kennedy/Western (801) 571·6183 Dick Dickinson/Northern California (408) 248·1641 • Chris Christman/Southern California (714) 638-1596 Jeri WrighVNorthwest (206) 838·9802· Roger W. Harlin, DVM/Central (405) 636-1484

LEGAL COUNSEL VICE PRESIDENT LEGISLATIVE VICE PRESIDENT Gary Lilienthal (617) 542·7070 Janet Lilienthal (617) 542-7070

STATE COORDINATORS Amy Worell, DVM/State Coordinator Chairman (818) 704-0223

ALABAMA KENTUCKY OHIO Horace Gardner (205) 874-7937 Thomas B. Angel. Jr.. OVM (606) 371-4929 Michaeleen Rogers (419) 639-3673

ALASKA LOUISIANA OKLAHOMA Jim Bauman (907) 334-0623 Tom Snowden, MO (405) 478·3197

ARIZONA MAINE OREGON Sunny Clarkson (602) 943·0614 Archie Fallbrother (207) 394-2252 Kay Mahl (503) 543-6042

ARKANSAS MARYLANO PENNSYLVANIA Roddy Gabel (301l585-9647 Brenda Geesey (717) 854-2604 Adull jJied barbel CALIFORNIA (NORTH) MASSACHUSETIS RHOOE ISLANO Laurella Oesborough (415) 372-6174 Glenn Talbot (617) 651-0139 and. after a few months, began ro show CALIFORNIA (SOUTH) MICHIGAN SOUTH CAROLINA interest in nestboxes. They would take Aletta M Long (213) 596-7429 Glen Pace (313) 687·2512

up residence in a box, visiting, and COLORAOO MINNESOTA SOUTH DAKOTA inspecting it frequently, and often Susan Baker (303) 223-2452 Gary Michael (612) 588-5652 Royce King (605) 393·1720

roosting in it during the day, only to CONNECTICUT MISSISSIPPI TENNESSEE :1bandon it after a few days. Walter J Willoughby (203) 528-7296 Jerry Pace (601) 781·2364 Deborah Dorsey (615) 865·2941 In April of 1986 they began to occupy DELAWARE MISSDURI TEXAS (NORTH) Drane Korolog (302) 762-0819 a new nestbox and eventually produced Gus Prros (314) 837·3063 three egg. The fresh weight of two of FLORIDA (NORTH) MONTANA TEXAS (SOUTH) Chuck Saffell (813) 722-0997 Fred Frey (406) 549-0530 Jack Clinton-Eltnrear (512) 828-5306 the eggs was 2.8 g each ± 0 I g. The FLORIDA (SOUTH) NEBRASKA UTAH eggs were well attended, but the bare, Mrs M Simmons (305) 772-2632 Roben G Travnlcek (402) 821-2490 flat-bottomed nestbox seemed ro have GEORGIA NEVADA VERMONT made it difficult to cover them properly. Mimi Shepard (404) 377-6319 Sebastian Lousada (802) 685·7724 The hen sat tight during one nestbox HAWAII NEW HAMPSHIRE VIRGINIA inspection but she had only one egg F. Lawrence Brandt (6031642-5074 Carole Wheeler (703) 323·5048 under her while the other two had IDAHD NEW JERSEY WASHINGTON rolled to a corner. The eggs were Arnold Davis (208) 775-3609 Carol Bauer (201) 662-1400 June Halton (206) 725-5175 14, candled on May and all showed ILLINOIS NEW MEXICO WASHINGTON. DC signs of early embryonic development, Ken Newby (618) 259-5453 Bill Parker (505) 473-2886 Ruth Hanessian (301) 424·PETS but by May 26 the nestbox was aban­ INDIANA NEW YORK WEST VIRGINIA doned and all the eggs had disappeared. Paul Gildersleeve (516) 922-1169 Patty Knoblauch (304) 725·5601 Ir}NA NORTH CAROLINA WISCONSIN In the ensuing months, modifications Carole Crate (515) 987-1075 A.M. Mack Long (919) 674-9328 Greg Schauer (414) 629·9292 \~'ere made to several palm logs in an KANSAS NORTH DAKOTA WYOMING effort to persuade the birds to use a Hal Prester (316) 788-4505 more n:1tural nest site. Nest cavities SCHEDULE FOR AFA excavated by the crested barbets were BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS altered to permit use by the pied barbets Mark these dates and plan to attend l while excluding the much larger and August 2 thru 7, 1988 Tampa, Florida - Hyatt Regency more aggressive cresteds. By February 14th Annual Convention 1987 the birds had chosen one of these Phyllis Martin, Chairperson (813) 839-4751 sites and the male was observed taking COMMERCIAL MEMBERS food to the cavity and feeding the Ammal Enwonmems. Carlsbad, CA House of TroPlcals Glen BurOle, MD Reliable Protem Products, StudiO City. CA Exchange, Rockville MD KayteeProduets, Inc .Chilton. WI Rolf C Hagen, Inc. St laurenl. Ouebec Canada female. As before, however, these en­ Auerhahn Ranch. Boerne TX Kellogg Inc. Milwaukee WI Safan CIty Pets, 5ealtle WA John Ball Zoological Park, Gland Rapids, MI Key Kntters, Inc Key largo FL Searlet Oak AVlanes. GleOWlllow OH couraging signs lasted only a few days elo·Pak AsSOCiates, Farmmgdale. NJ Magnoha BIrd Farm, Anaheim, CA Scooter sPet Shop. Novato, CA Blrdcraft. Inc, Coconut Grove, Fl Mlchael"s 8ml Paradise Inc RIViera Beach, Fl Tammy's Landing, Kernville. CA before the birds abandoned this site to Burl\e sBlrds, San Bernardmo. CA Nekton USA, Inc Sl Petersburg FL The Feather Connecllon. Miami. Fl Crofton Ammal Hospital, Gambrills. MD ParrotJungle,lnc Mlaml,Fl The Penco Companies, Houston, TX renew their search. East Coast AVlanes, Inc, Conway, SC Parrots and Props. Placentia. CA The Pel Ranch, Jamul, CA Fms, Furs, 'n Feathers, Boca Raton, Fl PetFarm,lnc.Mlaml,Fl Valentme EQUipment Company, Hlnsdale,lL Hagen AVlcultural Research Inslllute, Pets 'n Such. Erlanger, KY Vrvlgen.lnc •Santa Fe, NM Finally in July, 1987, the male was Rockwood, Ontano, Canada Your BastC BIrd. Berkeley, CA ~1~1~~~rd~~~~~~~~:N~~~,sE~~~~~n M& observed taking food to a previously

afa WATCHBIRD 7 TABLE I Comparison ofincubation by male vs. female piedbarbet Incubation Range in minutes Average no. Total min. % no. session ofinc. se ion min. on eggs on egg ob erved

FenlJle 6 1-30 13.5 81 49. L ale 9 3-15 9.4 0 -12. Unk. 1 13 13.0 13 .9 Total 16 1-30 11.9 164

TABLE II Comparison ofincubation vs. inattentiveness

umber Range Average Total % Session in min. No. mins. minutes Either nlale or fenlale on egg 16 1-30 11.9 164 -18% either on egg,' 16 1-28 11.0 1 8 52<1(') undi COY r d ne t cavity. The n thad c aled ju t bela the low t frond of been exca ated b the pied barbet in a the palm. The single ne tling (di tin­ live ago palm that m a ured only 42 ' gui hable fron1 the parent anI) by it­ tall and 10' in diameter. The ca, it) it elf lack of a red for head) a peering out measured 8" deep ith a 2-1/8" dia­ of the ne t entrance on Augu t 3, and meter ntrat ce locat d ju 't 22" above fledged the folIo ing day. The fledgling the ground. Th ntrance a' ell con- a removed from the exhibit immedi-

Aviculture is Conservation too... Name: Nene Goose Branta sandvicensis Range: Island of Hawaii Status in the Wild: Reduced to only 30 birds in 1952. ENDANGERED. Status in Captivity: Large captive population. Conservation Action: Since. that first release of 20 birds in 1960 hundreds have been reared in captivity and reintroduced back into the wild.

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8 April/May 1988 ately and was self-feeding within -i8 ~ hours. v The parents began to recycle almost immediately and by August 17. just two weeks after the removal of thc fledgling, World Birds had produced a complete clutch of three eggs. On September 2, two of the Quarantine Station cggs had hatched and are presumcd to 7519 South Western Ave. han: conformcd to the incubation period of 1'-1 to 15 days as stated in Los Angeles, California 90047 ~ ,\lcLachlan and Li\"Crsidge - Roberts ~(~ Birds ofSouth Africa. (213) 753-1862 During the incubation and nestling phases of the nesting cycle, zookeepers ~~, Telex: 4995300 BURX LSA Celia Lewis, Tracy Warren, Gary Hanson, and Cher Kinison, undertook /1't I SPECIALS observation of the behavior of the breeding pair on ten occasions in par­ African Grey Parrots (Congos) ticular. All observations took place between 11:00 a.m. and6:00 p.m., and Scaly Headed Parrots (Maximilian's) varied from 23 to 150 minutes in durat ion with a total ofeight hours and Blue Fronted Amazon Parrots '-15 minutes obser\"ation time. The ob­ Jardine's Parrots servations confirm that in this species, as with other barbet species, both male Moluccan Cockatoos • Umbrella Cockatoos and female partiCipate in the incubation Goffin's Cockatoos of the eggs (Table 1) and the feeding of Sales: Robert Morton, Willie Smith the ~'oung. 'Etble II shows that. during nearly six No retail sales hours of obsen'ations on ten occasions, the adult birds incubated the eggs less Call orsendSA.SE.lorprices. than 50% of the time. These resuls, (; howe\'er, may simply reflect the high e\ ambient temperature ofthe A\'iary at the time of the observations, i.e., 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in August and September, Important Medical Announcement the hottest part of the day at the hottest time of the year. for Bird Owners Observations were carried out on six dates during the nestling period during Introducing VetRx™ Caged Bird Remedy-The Proven, which '-10 feedings were noted, 19 by Inexpensive Remedy for Avian Respiratory Infections, the female, 16 by the male, and five of Scaly Face, and Scaly Leg Mites which the identity of the parent was VetRx" caged bird remedy is an inexpensive, easy to apply unknO'vvn. The time between feedings medication for treating respiratory infections, scaly face and ranged from one to 15 minutes with an scaly leg mites. When administered to the bird at the onset a\'erage rate of one feeding every 5. I of respiratory problems, VetRx" helps fight infection by minutes. keeping air passages clear. When used in conjunction with antibiotics, VetRx'" helps speed relief. Results are dramatic. The two nestlings fledged on October And because VetRx" lets you take immediate action, you I. approximately' 29 days after minimize avian suffering and save money, too. It's the perfect hatching and weighted 30.1 and 3'-1.2 remedy for those ~mes when you can't get to avet immediately. Every home avian first-aid kit should have VetRx:' grams respectively. Both \yere remo\"Cd from the exhibit and were self-feeding Completely Safe, All Natural Remedy In use since 1874 and FDA approved, VetRx" has been proven wthin '-18 hours just as their predece sor safe and effective by the poultry industry, bantam bird had been. breeders, and pigeon breeders throughout the U.S. It's an The fledging and continued health of effective remedy for all cage birds. a pied barbet in August 1987 represents Priced to Keep Your wallet Healthy, Too the first breeding of the species at the A2-oz. bottle of VetRx" costs only $6.95 (plus $1.25 postage and handling). Send for VetRx" today and help your birds North Carolina Zoological Park and, to breathe alittle easier. our knowledge, in the United States. Dealers & Pet Store inquiries invited. Respond on your 'Although the precise dale ofhatching letterhead to: Pampered Parrot Haven, Inc., Dept. AFA, P.O. Box 507, Oyster Bay, NY 11771, or call: 516-922-1169. is notknown, the nestlings appeared to (VETREE PRODUCTS LTD.) haue been no more than a da)' or two Prices subject to change without notice VetRx is a trademark of Vetree Products, Ltd. old when first observed on September 2, a 29 day nestlingperiod conflicts, CJ'an.!f'~ howeuer, with the 35 days listed in 5Z'arrPP :J£aveJ'lj J1U1 ,\JIaLachlan andLiversidge. ~ afa WATCHBIRD 9