tl}e CAGES Black Farrots FINEST QUALITY HAND CRAFTED WROUGHT IRON BIRD & CAGES of FrasliQ \

• Slide-out trays By Rosemary Low • Sturdy Construction • Antique Gold or Black England • Hanging, On Stands or Legs • From Finches to the largest of Macaws • Wide Assortment of Sizes • Also custom made cages to D your specifications c ~ CJ) c w E co ""C co (5 I a: 0>­ n o 2 ll..

FREE BROCHURE Send self-addressed stamped envelope AMC National Sales Group Subsidary of 3D Industries, Inc. 9630 Aero Drive San Diego, CA 92123 619 565-1122

WATCH OUR AD FOR THE LATEST IN BIRD BOOK PUBLICATIONS

How to Hand Raise Baby J. Goldsmith-24 pg .. illus .. ·pb., -$3.95 The Complete Cockatiel Dr. M. Vriends-176 pg .. (20 color pg.)-$12.95 Popular Dr. M. Vriends-250 pg., 16 color photos, (Sept. '83)-$1595 Looking After Cage Birds D. Alderton-126 pg .. 50 color photos-$11.95 Estrildid Finches of the World D. Goodwin-328 pg., color and b/w-$45 The Bird Care Book S. Gerstenfeld. DVM-t86 pg .. iIIus ·pb.-$6.95 Pigeons and Doves of Australia H.J Firth-304 pg., The black ./Jarrot IS difficult to observe when feeding in dense, dark vegetation. 7 color plates - $35 Blue-fronted Amazon E. Mulawka-128 pg, 60 color photos & b/w $12.95 Certain remote places scattered about The Seychelles are a group of granitic The Grey-cheeked Parakeet N. Ruffalo- 24 pg .. the globe have, since the time of their and coral islands situated about 300 ·pb-$3.95 discovery, acted like a magnet to natural­ miles south of the Equator. Their avi­ 'pb-paper back Please add $1 75 lor poslage and handling per ists. Because of their unique fauna, fauna is fascinating. It can be divided order We accept Mastercard and Visa. Please Include eXpiration date. islands are high on the list ofsuch places, into three groups: the introduced species For our latesl IiSI 01 Olfd books. send a large sell among them the Seychelles. Situated which comprise the most common land addressed stamped envelope IS A S E) one thousand miles from the east coast of birds (e.g., common mynahs and barred AVIAN PUBLICATIONS Africa and two thousand miles from the ground doves); the seabirds, some of 310 Mana Oove. Oept AFA. Wausau. WI 54401 (715) 842·9995 Indian mainland, these islands are cer­ them counted in millions, on the out­ tainly remote. The nearest land mass is lying islands, the migrants; and the the Malagasy Republic (formerly Mada­ endemic species. l...l ...... L...... gascar), 650 miles distant. Almost without exceptlOn the latter

34 EXQUISITE FULL COLOR PHOTO POSTER OF THE MOST POPULAR COCKATIEL MUTATIONS by George D. Dodge & Dale R. Thompson are rare or not numerous. All the islands High quality are small and some species are confined lithography that to a single island. On Praslin, for exam­ carefully defines ple, which measures seven miles long each subtle color. and two miles wide, is found the black Print size, 18" x24" parrot. The conservation of parrots found on small islands holds a special in­ $6.95 terest for me. Having seen how rapidly includes tax, increasing human populations on a shipping & handling number of Caribbean islands have For overseas orders please placed severe on the Amazon add $3.50 additional postage. parrots found there, bringing some order from: species to the brink of , I wanted to investigate the situation in AMERICAN comparable circumstances in the Indian FEDERATION OF Ocean. Could anything that I was able to AVICULTURE learn about the black parrot aid the sur­ P.O. BOX 1568 vival of the Amazon parrots which so REDONDO BEACH desperately need man's help? CALIFORNIA 90278 The black parrot belongs to the Coracopsis which contains only two species, the larger parrot (c. vasa) from Malagasy and the Comoro Islands and C. nigra whose distribution addi­ FEEDER INSECTS tionally includes Praslin. The smallest HIGHEST QUALITY·· MAXIMUM NUTRITION sub-species c.n. barklyi, is found there. FOR ZOOS, AQUARIUMS AND AVIARIES One of the unique features of the If you do not have a standing order with us now -- contact us for our best price. members of this genus is the plumage We can furnish what you need-when you need it. which is uniform greyish brown or Many major zoos throughout the country now use our grubs, brown. In coloration these are the dullest and references can be given on our good quality and prompt service. parrots in the world. A few Vasas have been kept by zoos and aviculturisrs but MEALWORMS FLY LARVAE WAXWORMS they are not well known and attract at­ Th.lJv.li.st and hardi.st A soft-bodl.d Th. b.st 8•• Moth on the mark.t whit. grub larva. availabl. anywh.r. tention mainly for their drab coloration. Little is known about the Coracopsis in 1,000 $ 3.50 1,000 $ 7.00 1,000 $11.00 general so, in April of this year my hus­ 5,000 12.50 5,000...... 30.00 5,000 50.00 band and I visited Praslin to learn what ABOVE PRICES INCLUDE ALL SHIPPING AND HANDLING CHARGES we could of the black parrot. On arrival Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) are widely in Mahe, the main island of Seychelles, I used and are well-known as feed for birds. went to the offices of the Department of The Fly Larva (8arcophaga bullatal. are Agriculture to meet Lindsay Chong Seng excellent if you are having trouble with chiten in your feed. The Bee Moth Larvae who is responsible for conservation of the (GalJeria mellonella l is a little more expen­ native fauna. sive but if this is what you need we have My first question to him was a leading quality. We can furnish the size you need -­ just let us know. one: was there a recent estimate of the population? He told me that in 1970 PHONE OR WRITE FOR LARGE QUANTITY PRICES members of the Young Scientists' Socie­ ty from Seychelles College had carried our some work on the black parrot from E}rubce·lnc. which they concluded that the popula­ tion numbered about one hundred Box 2001 W• Hamilton, Ohio 45015 • (513) 863·4937 birds. In June of that year, all firearms

35 Mary E. McDemas Jeri SantiagC' Beverly McFadden Robert Scerbo April 1983 Lee McFaul Nita Scherr Mike D. McGee J oarme Marie Schick Anne S. Mcintyre Julianne Schmidt Joe Mclaughlin Ronald L. Schmidt AFA Fund-Raiser June D. McMillan Greg Schnurr Dr. Marje McMillan Ed Schroeder George Manierre Rothe Schubot Results and Donors John M. Manning David Schwartz Barbara J, Mapes Robert Schweiger Tom Marshall Ron Scoggin George A. Martin R. Michael Sen On behalf of AFAI want to thank all who were involved in this venture: the generous Knox Martin E. P. Sewell Linda Manin George Searles members who funded the appeal, the members of the National Capital Bird Club who Bob Mason Charles Shaffer assembled the mailing, Phyllis Martin for the actual mailing, and a sincere thanks to all Anhur W. Mathis Richard Shatp Mary B. Matthews Jane Graham Shaw who contributed to our appeal. A clear profit of $8,727.83 was generated. Donors are Berniece Maxwell &n L. Shimshack listed alphabetically. Barbara Mendelsohn Janet Shubin Shades H, Melvin Hector Sierra Jack L. Meyer Carole M. Sims John Micciche Pearl L. Skoll Lee Phillips, President David Keith Midgett Ruth M. Sleyer J ames Miller DVM Harold Smerdu George Millis J. Houston Smith J. Ashton Moore, III Nyal A. Smith Maj. Robert E. Moore Terry). Smith Clarke Moore Richard & Betty Jo Snow Margaret E. Morris Harold Sodamann Donors of S100 each to Mary M. Barron Dorothy l. Davis Don Hodnen Dennis Mulkey Janiece R. Solomon fund the appeal: Hanna Barsam Lisa Davis Mary Ellen Hodson DVM Kay L. Mundy Jim Coffman Thomas Battinelli Barbara Day Svlvia Hollowav Ruth Marchison Janice Spillane Tom Ireland Sandy Baxter Perry Delaney T~nny Holst . Bar bara C. Murdock Mrs. Albert). Sralla Roger Kenny William Beane Vern Demon Susy Horowitz Linda Myers Lynne Stewart Gary Lilienthal Michael J. Beatty Jeanne C. Deutsch M. L. Hort Ruth Myers Carole Stoll Felicia Lavelett Russ &nninger Me. & Mrs. David Devine Lee Howells Jodie C. Nabors Ardean Stone Tom Marshall Dr. Arden Bercovitz Ernest D'Herin Barbara Huddleston Donna Nardo Ruth Stone Lee Phillips Judith Berg Thomas). Dickson. Jt. Janet IIg Kenneth & Louise Neil Jane Stowe Jim Smith Judith). Berndt T. Jones & H. Dinwiddie Everts E. Jackson Florence Newman Linda Suatsma Ralph Smith Alice l. Bess Dave D'isidoro Justin Jacobucci Maureen Newman Christine Sturm Lance Birk Martha Lee Dodds Janiene Jakopac Beverly Nilsen Karen M. Sturman Tana Blake Thomas A. Donaldson Wendell R. Jantzen Sheree Noble Gloria L. Suarez Donors of $100 or more: Carol B. Blalock Vicki P. Dovel Lawrence N. Jenkins Pt"ter Narcison Jane C. Summer R. G. Travnicek MD Keith Bower Shirley Doyle Janes T. Jennings C. Van Northrup Robert N. Summers Kevin Clubb L. Harold Bowles Terry Dunham Diane Jett Marilyn Naval Gary C. Sutherland James H. Coffman Maria Bracke Robert Dunlap Harvey L. Johnson Charles Nunemaker Vinor Swatsek Bob & Pam Diedrich Susan Bradshaw Sharon A. Duritzo-Spocinski Lee Johnson Roger O'Connell Dr). Bela Szakacs Charlie Holland Judith K. Brennan James Duroy Paul H Jones Gary Odendahl Hart & Tagami Tom Ireland Steven & Karen Brice David S. Dyer S. Irene Jones Barbara Ogaard Ellen Tannehill Gerald M. & Elizabeth Fabienne Bridges Joseph P. Dziedzic DonnaJune Old Dominion Animal Hospital &tty Tanner Jennings Roger Bringas Jan Eifert Kris Kalnow Jack Oliver Isabel P. Taylor Raymond). Jerome MD Robert Brinkmann Nanda Van Eldik Lorraine Kellogg Harry P. Osborne John P. Tenusua Michael L. Jesudason MD Ray C Brinser Roben Elko Jack Kelly Carl R. Oswald. Jr. Domenico Tenuta Betty Kelso AI & Char Broadbent Winny Ellner Robert Paul Kenyon Lanny Pace Brian D. Thiessen Raymond P. Katz DDS Joseph Brousil J r. Paul Engen Gail Kerry David W. Padgett Craig C. Thoeny Lee Phillips Christopher Brown Dena England Al Kimker Harriet L Page Wayne & Marion Thomann Joan C Price Sandra L Brown John). Everard Scott R. King Pampered Pet Inc. John Tobin Jerome W. Scherr Terry Brunner Glenn Fain William Kitksey DVM Erin Parisi Muriel A. Tomkins James W. Smith Wallace E. Bryce John Farese Patty Knoblauch Joyce M. Parkhouse John Topping Elaine Spear Gail Buchanan John & Sandy Fecher Roben). Knuff MD Nibondh Parnprome Marga Troha Anna Marie Stevenson Lloyd Bunker Bart Feller Joe Krader Ignacio Perea Donald). Trussell David M. Weinstein Ann M. Burdette Anthony Ferraiuolo Ann Krause Carlos R. Pereira DVM Roy Tucker Alyce Pamela Burgess John Fetcho Gladus Krebs James). Perry Natalie J. Turner Clarence Burson Luis R. Fonticoba Jerry Krumdieck Peggy Perry Rae Turrini Donors of $50 or more: Paul Butler Ray Foster Elaine Kruskol Tom L. Phillips Jr. Douglas W. Uecker Richard F. Baer, DVM Butte County Bird Club Ruth Frejik Henry Kugell Joseph Pierce Jr. Robert Ungerer William Becker Lorna Buxton Dr D. Michael Fry Donna Jean LaCarra Alicia Pinzari Terrell Utley Warwick Bonsai William P. Calvert MD John M. Gagliardo Ray & Cheryle Lamb Sandra Lee Pochert Valley of Paradise Bird Club Paula D. Coxwell Rex & Patricia Cantrell Marvin & Maxine Gardner Howard LaPierre Shirley F. Pollok Mrs. Van Caner Timothy & Ro Dahle Phyllis E. Carey Mary A. Garrison Charles Lathan Jesse & Mickey Poner John Vanderhoof Randy E. Griffith Victor Carpemier Louis & Anna M. Gergel Herman Lau William E. Poner Virginia Van Velzer Janina Lutomirski Bernice Carrington Peter Gerth DDS Rose leClerc Barbara Pritchard Eduardo Vazquez Pet Palace, Beaverton, OR Michael & Austina Carrion Deborah Gibson Charlotte A. leDoux Billie J. Railsback Joseph Ventimiglia Carol Schmitz Maurice Carter Robert F. Gibson Judy &a LeDoux John Ransegnola Ann M. Vesely Cynthia Stewart Laura Chalifoux Mark Gochenour DVM Aile Lee Lynn Rasoletti April D. Vestal Hannis L. Stoddard DVM Carol D. Childs Maid" B. Goddard Judi A. LeMond Red Canary Inc. Julia A. Vincent Kevin Wirick Jolcen Chrestensen Don & Lois Godsman W. N. Leonard Jim Reid Jerome L. Vitenson Christine H. Christy Walter G. Goetz Claude E. Leroy Luke Reilly Geraldine Voight Donors: Dorothy P. Clair DVM Tony Graham Dave Lewis Marlene Reinhardt Julia). Vollmuth William F. Acuff Fred Clubb Charles R. Grau Eugene A. Lewis Tom Resch Linay Wackerlin Paul). Alarcon. Jt. Mary Clutter Dean W. Gray Paul W. Lewis Karen Reyes Rebecca Ward Russell Alberts Roland). Cochran Guy A. Greenwell Ralph & Linda Leyda John R. Reynolds Larry & J ill Warner Brenda Albrecht Barry Cohen Janet Griffith Raymond Liechty Tom Riggs Leonard K. Watson Clifford). Albtight Sylvan Cohen MD C. Vern Griffith Ralph & Teresa Lima Barbara Roberts John Weger George Alexander Stan Coldsnow Susan Guard Kenton Lint Don Robens Jo Weidner George E. Allen Christine Cole Marion Gundersen Bertram Li pton Susanne Robison Charles R. Weirlauff American Canary Fanciers Assn. Don Cole Robert Guzewicz John Livermore Carl Rodegerdts James Wente American Singers Club Inc. #1 Dorothy G. Cooke William K. Haley Stephanie Logue Sherry Roden RN Robert G. Werner Ann Amyes William & Marian Cooper William C. Halsema Bud Long Bernard Roer George V. West Don Anderson Bart & Jeanette Corbett Lee Ann Hamerski R. Mack Long Cameron Rogers Carole Wheeler Kathryn V. Anderson Sandra K. Correll Rick Hannum Gary M. Lopes Diana L. Rogers Gerald M. Whitaker Leo J. Anderson Leah M. Coulter Jetta Hansen Jean Lorant Nancy Rosenberg James B. Whitney Ralph W. Andmon Derek J. Cowie Nancy K. Hansen Yvonne Loud Gwen Rosenberger Janet H. Wicker Bruce Appelbaum Eldred Ctager Tim Hargrove Leslie R. Lubeck Marvin Rothman DVM Paul Wilkin David Arthur Christy J. Crane Lloyd Hartman Monty Luden John C. Rounds Charles & Angela Williams Danny Leroy Ary Elizabeth G. Culp Harvey Hathcock Enzo Luzatti MD Glenn G. Rubin DDS Dianne Williams Ann Ash Maryjane Said Cummings Sylvia Haughey Marion MacDonald Linda S. Rubin Mildred T. Williams Elias R. Ason Lee Cunningham Charles E. Haun, Sr. H P. Macklin Ray Rudisill Larry M. Wolf Sandra Baillif William Cunningham Lorraine Haywood Jacqueline McCall Ben Russell Connie Wright-Ross David Baker William F. Curry William H. Hensley Daniel McCormic Bernard Lee Ryan Nazzareno Xerri IrisG. Ball Joseph W. DanielJt. Wilford Herman F. Ray McCormick Dr. Philip). Ryan Marge Zacher Lisa Barlow Laurie Davies MD Susan Herold Jane McCulloch Daniel Sanchez Cynthia Zoby •

36 Continued from page 35 were confiscated for political reasons­ so had that resulted in a subsequent in­ L&M Bird Bands crease, I wondered? It is quickly evident that generally speaking the standard of P.O. Box 2943 • San Bernardino, CA 92406 living is higher here than in the Carib­ Closed month of July for vacation bean-and no one has any need to COLORED ALUMINUM COCKATIEL or LOVE BIRD BANDS black, blue, gold, shoot birds for food. Unlike the situation green, orange, red, silver and violet. Please give the following information: in the Caribbean islands, shooting in Cockatiel or Love Bird bands, Initials wanted (up to three), Consecutive numbers order to take parrots alive for trade has wanted, Open or Closed, Color & Year. (Next year's bands will not be released un­ til Dec. 26th.) All Cockatiel & Love Bird bands are 15¢ each. Minimum order 25 never occurred. And Me. Chong Seng bands each size. told me that he will not issue any licenses EXOTIC ALUMINUM BANDS (Homing Pigeon Size 17/64" 10) Same colors as listed for taking or keeping them. All endemic above. Please give same information as above. Exotic bands are 18¢ each. birds are protected by law, with fines of Minimum order 25 bands. up to R1,000 (about $1,700) or im­ LARGE CLOSED SILVER ALUMINUM PARROT BANDS 3/8",7/16",1/2",5/8" and prisonment not exceeding one year, 3/4" 1.0. Bands are 11/64" high. All sizes 50¢ each. Minimum order 10 bands each under the Wild and Birds Pro­ size. Please give the following information: Size, Initials wanted (up to three), Con­ secutive numbers and year (silver only). tection Act. However, no one has yet CALIF. OFFICIAL CODED & REGISTERED closed PARAKEET LEG BANDS. Price been charged under the act. includes 6% Sales Tax &State Health Band Fee. 25 Bands $3.65; 50 Bands $6.90; I was told that there is a growing feel­ 100 Bands $10.80. ing of responsibility toward wildlife, an PLASTIC BANDS 7 sizes, 10 colors: black, It. blue, dark blue, It. green, dark green, increasing attitude of pride in the orange, orchid, yellow, red and pink. Please indicate type of bird bands are for & endemic species and a realization that color wanted. 10 bands to a string (same color) 80¢ each string; 10 strings $7.50; they are attractions which can only 20 strings $14.00. BIRD LEG BAND CUTTERS Need to take a band off your bird's leg? Light benefit the tourist industry and therefore cutters that really work! Easy to use, $5.95 post paid. the people in general. The positive at­ BIRD NETS for the aviculturist. Made for plenty of abuse. 100% nylon netting. 18" titude toward conservation is a com­ hard wood handle, 10" tempered aluminum hoop, 20" bag depth or small canary paratively recent development here, as in nets 12" handle, 8" diameter hoop, $5.50 each post paid. most parts of the world. On Praslin, Me. PLASTIC HAND FEEDERS Pays for itself many times over. Save the abandoned Figaro, of the Department of Agricul­ young or help the slow feeders. 10cc feeder $2.35; two for $4.25; five for $8.90. ture, told me that until the late 1950s Please add 50¢ on all orders under $5.00. Calif. residents please include sales tax. dead parrots could be seen by the road­ side, the victims of boys with catapults. This never occurs now. Again I heard, ,'The people take pride in their parrot. " Human predation is a thing of the past-so are there any other predators, I asked? It is believed that rats have taken young in the nest-but to date, fewer than halfa dozen nests have been found, so this is an area where further study is desirable but far from easy. I had heard it rumored that the introduced barn owl takes parrots. Me. Chong Seng doubted this-but again an attempt to investi­ gate the possibility should be pursued. I then considered other factors which could limit the population: food supply and nesting sites. The former appears Distributing plentiful in the area of the Valee de Mai; quality the latter is an unknown quantity. Both wrought iron Evans (1979) and Penny (1965) believed bird cages. that the absence of suitable nesting sites, i.e., standing dead trees, might be the We sell only fat and healthy birds - Guaranteed!! factor limiting population growth. All birds can be shipped anywhere in the U.S., and Penny suggested the provision of nest­ can be surgically sexed. We operate a U.S.DA boxes and Evans, a little more realistical­ quarantine station. ly, believed that leaving dead A/bizia and Acacia trees standing was the best Quantity prices are available on Macaws, Cockatoos, policy. Amazons, Finches and Softbills. SPECIAL: tame baby Grey­ Possibly, too, the parrots are com­ cheeked parakeets peting for nest sites with other species. It was only after an intensive study was Get on our Mailing List! made of the Puerto Rican parrot Parrot Paradise - 26530 Harper (Amazona vittata) that it was discovered St.CI.Sh., Mich. 48081 - (313) 776-3551 that it was losing the battle for nest sites 37 '0 c: ~ Ol c: w E ro E c: ~ (') I. I a: >­ .0 o WHITE-BREASTED £: 0- BLUE-BREASTED NORMAL COLORS

~ Herschel Frey -l--=~------1170 Firwood Dr. Pittsburgh, PA. 15243 (412) 561-7194

Seed - 10 Bands - Nesting Supplies Vitamins - Antibiotics - Medications Insecticides -- Books - Recordings Feeders - Cages

(~) SEND FOR ( VISA) ~ PRICE LIST

THE BIRO'S NEST 7 Patten Rd., Bedford, N.H. 03102 Mr. Figaro holds the only black parrot in captivity. (603) 623·6541

in competition with a recent colonist, the island, Mauritius, the common mynah is pearly-eyed thrasher (Fuscus margarops). a nest competitor of the critically en­ Could the same type of problem be oc­ dangered ( echo) 51ky [Kilngs Aviary curring here, with the introduced com­ which has a smaller population than any mon mynah playing other parrot throughout the world. 5165 ROUTE 43 (Acndotheres tristis) KENT, OHIO 44240 the role of villain? I would have thought Mynahs have been known to displace not, as there are few mynahs in the parakeets from nesting cavities; one had Vicky and Kent been used for at least four years by the Kibler Vallee itself; they prefer areas of human habitation. parakeets before mynahs took posses­ -WE SHIP- However, Andrew Gardner, a zoology sion. Only the fact that mynahs have dif­ LARGE SELECTION OF student at Aberdeen University, who ferent preferences regarding nest loca­ IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC BIRDS spent a year on Praslin studying geckos, tions' preferring open areas to forest, 216/61S~0488 informed me of the following incident. prevents them from being a serIOUS Telephone inquiries only. "I watched a group of three parrots in­ threat. No correspondence vestigating a hollow Pandanus homei To date, the discovery of the nest of a stump on ovember 18, 1980. One bird black parrot has been an extremely rare went inside, then hopped out and per­ event. The first described were twO formed a head-bowing display and ap­ found by a forestry worker in ovember Erie Shores Aviary peared to be fed by one other, ruffling 1963 (Legrand, 1964). One, in the trunk 223 Park Avenue its head feathers in the process. A few of a dead Pandanus homei, was :. Amherst. Ohio 44001 days later, however, it became obvious destroyed when the tree fell. It contained .) ~. (216) 988-2006 that mynahs had taken over the hole." three young. The second nest, in a dead ~eorge and Mary Couture I- Albizia fakata, was examined closely. It T! SP~CIALIZING IN VITAMIN It could have been that the partots lost RICH SEED DIETS. interest in the site, for some reason, but contained two white eggs which had Diets contain all vitamins, minerals. and it seems equally likely that the more ag­ been deposited on a layer of rotten wood amino acids required for perfect health and gressive personality of the mynah would dust at the bottom of a perpendicular feathering. Ingredients are recommended by tunnel which served as an entrance. The veterinary doctors and breeders everywhere. result in a victory in any altercation over Available in 2. 5. 10. and 25 Ibs. nest sites. This is certainly an aspect tunnel measured about 4 ft. in length. Please send for price information. which deserves fu rther study. It is of in­ One of the nests was found in the terest that on another Indian Ocean Vallee de Mai, the other outside it. The 38 Vallee, a national park which occupies an area approximately one mile square, is the strong hold of the black parrot. It ex­ isted virtually in a virgin state until the 1930s-and no one who spends a few hours inside can fail to be touched by its primeval qualities. These are accen­ tuated by the silence, broken by the oc­ casional trickle of a stream, the frequent clashing of the giant palm fronds of the coco-de-mer (the unique endemic palm) and the noisy calls of the excitable Missouri Cage Bird Association Orange County Bird Breeders endemic bulbul. Sometimes, too, the Annual Open Show Bird Fair joyful whistling of the black parrots will November 4. 5. 1983 November 13. 1983 be heard. Harley House Hotel of St. Louis Orange County Fairgrounds. bldg. 10 For those prepared to make the climb, 13440 Riverglen Drive Costa Mesa. CA Earth City. MO there is a vantage point in the National from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact: Sandy Simpson Contact: Vern Nievar (714) 554-2215 Park which provides an excellent view 1308 Primrose Drive or Candy Fletcher (714) 537-0408 over a large area of the Vallee. Anyone Arnold. MO 63010 who spends a little time there, even in American Cockatiel Society the heat of midday, will before too long 6th National cage Bird Show be rewarded by the parrots' whistling Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club. Inc. November 17. 18. 19. 1983 calls and will probably see them winging Annual All-Bird Show to be held in conjunction with the their way across the Vallee, scarcely more November 4.5.6. 1983 35th National Cage Bird Show than specks in the distance. But this was Holiday Inn. Itasca. IL Regency Hotel. Denver. CO Contact: Carter Atwood too remote to be satisfying and I always Contact: LaVerne Krauss 2719 S. Komensky Avenue Rt. 1. Box 120A sought the close approach which is possi­ Chicago. II 60623 (312)521-1961 Pleasant Hill. MO 64080 ble when they are busy feeding. They were perfectly aware of our presence but showed no alarm as long as we kept fairly Great Western Budgerigar Society still. To me, this was an indication that San Diego Bird Show 29th Annual Exhibition November 4. 5. 6. 1983 no human persecution occurs, for in November 18. 19.20. 1983 College Grove Shopping Center Rosemead Community areas where parrots are shot a close ap­ Hwy. 94. 7 College Grove Ave. Recreation Center proach is usually impossible. San Diego. CA 3936 Muscatel Ave.. Rosemead. CA Late one afternoon we explored new Contact: Mary Lannom (619) 749-3115 Contact: Sally Lawrence (213) 934-1383 land in the company of Victor, who is Rt. 6. Box 21 08 Escondido. CA 92025 141 S. Arden Blvd. employed by theDepartment of Agricul­ Los Angeles. CA 90004 ture. He has achieved local fame as a American Canary Fanciers Association singer and told me of the charming folk 35th National Cage Bird Show song he had written about the black par­ 3rd Annual Show November 5. 6. 7. 1983 November 18. 19. 20. 1983 rot, explaining why it has no bright col­ Hacienda Hotel Regency Hotel Denver. CO ors, yet visitors to the island always seek 525 North Sepulveda Contact: Kevin Wirick (303) 623-5959 it in the Vallee de Mai. Here was further EISegundo.CA 748 Santa Fe Drive Denver. CO 80204 proof of local pride in the parrot, Contact: Kelvin Clegg (213) 476-0745 presented in a manner which will add to the bird's popular appeal. Santa Clara Valley Canary & Victor took us up a steep track of rut­ Greater Jacksonville Aviculture Society Exotic Bird Club ted red soil, used by the forestry depart­ 7th Annual Show Annual Show ment for timber extraction. Some way November 11 & 12 November 25.26. & 27. 1983 Jacksonville Airport Hilton Peterson Jr. High School from the path was a large tree laden with Jacksonville. FL Hans St. off EI Camino Real round orange-yellow fruits which Victor Contact: G.J.A.S. Sunny Vale. CA identified as santol Sandoricum in­ P.O. Box 14621 Contact: Mary Schreiber (408) 722-6560 dicum . Here the huge fruit bats and the Jacksonville. FL 32238 parrots were busy feeding during the hour before sunset. As the setting sun Maryland Cage-Bird Society colored the clouds with yellow and Cleveland Canary & Cage Bird Club Roller Show Bird Show December 2. 3. 1983 orange, the parrots flew out ofthe tree in November 12. 1983 Howard Johnson Motor Lodge pairs, their small wings seeming to beat Puritas Lutheran Church 5701 Baltimore National Pike furiously against the darkening sky. Yet 13812 Bellaire Baltimore. MD 21229 at other times their flight might have Cleveland. Ohio 44135 Contact: John Klausmeyer Contact: Ray Ptak 2956 Normandy Drive been a different species, as they swooped 7102 Wilber Ave.. Parma. OH 44129 Ellicott City. MD21043 and dived with effortless grace. Another tree on which the parrots feed -probably the most important native tree-is the palm Verschaffe/tia sp/en­ dida. 39 There are many specimens of this and mangos. Me. Figaro emphasized that palm inside the Vallee de Mai where the while between ten and twenty birds was closely knit forest canopy makes parrot­ the normal number which visited his watching difficult. One day I saw two garden, double that number could parrots not far from the westernmost regularly be seen at a place called Marie point of the nature trail, from which Louise near the southern tip of the , • J ~~/ visitors can explore the Vallee. island, more than a mile outside the . .--- The birds were soon lost from view in Park. Indeed, he believed that parrots No need for aviary shelves. Eliminate crock the dense vegetation. However, I knew can be seen in almost any area where damage. Keep food, water up off floor. Fits most cage or aviary wire. Light weight, does that they were very close as their arboreal their favorite trees are fruiting. Ap­ not stretch wire. Painted to resist rust. 2 trail could be followed by means of the parently, however, there are extensive bolts w/backi ng plates keep holders steady. Holders available in 2 sizes: small fruits of the palm which were rain­ areas which they do not visit. Perhaps size #1 - holds crock 4 3/4" x 3" deep ing down around us and hitting the they never have made use of the lowland size #2 - holds crock 6" x 3V2" deep $3.00 each for either size, please specify ground-or the dead fronds covering it forests which contains few trees to their (California residents add 6% tax) Call or write for wholesale or quantity prices. -with a crack. When they took to the liking. Andrew Gardner told me that he designed and sold by wing we discovered with some surprise spent much time in the remnant patches • Moctezuma that they had been only a few feet away of natural forest behind the Cote d'Or in from us, having fed in total silence. the northern-central part of the island, Occasionally parrots perch boldly in and in Anse Kerlan on the west coast. ~.!~0~973~~~d~C~~~ the bare limbs of a dead tree; indeed, During a period of more than a year, he (619) 741-3421 our very first sight of this species was of a never saw parrots there. The Vallee de I pair in such a location. It was the hour Mai and the south-eastern corner of the before sunset of the day we arrived in island are therefore the main stronghold Praslin. For an hour we had searched the of the black parrot. valley for our first glimpse of black par­ Assuming that it is confined to this rots. As we drove off, disappointed, I area, the question that continuously saw a pair perched high in a tree near the revolved in my mind was: is the popula­ roadside. They were totally unconcerned tion truly as small as one hundred or has by our presence and preened and it been underestimated? Interested local whistled, one perched a few feet above people are not prepared to commit the other. When we had gazed and themselves on this point. They will tell

• Zebras filmed to our hearts' content, my hus­ you, as the Figaros did, that the number • Societies band clapped his hands so that we could of parrots visiting their garden to feed on • (~()uldians • Ran.::s see them in flight. They merely peered guavas, has increased during the four lOVEBIJtDS down, as though to wonder at our antics, years they have lived there. But more • Peachface & :-'lutations and did nothing but give a melodious than that they are not prepared to say. • Fishers • lJIuc :'Iasks SHIPPED AXYWHERE whistle. They even answered when he Having seen the terrain in which the • Black Masks IX THE eXITED STATES mimicked their call! black parrot is found, I believe that it From LA. International GUAJtAJX.TEED QUAIJTY During the six days that followed we would be an impossible task to estimate appreciated how lucky we had been to the population accurately unless a survey Bt:DGIES CAXARIES encounter parrots in an open location was carried out at dawn by several hun­ IXDIAlX RINGlXECKS where the light permitted photography. dred people simultaneously, a number GOLDEN MANTLE ROSELLAS Ylsltors Welcome Although on subsequent occasions we of whom were equipped with' 'Walkie­ B:o' Prior Appointment Only were able to approach them within a few talkies.' , feet as they fed on the small green fruits The parrots are conspicuous in flight of the introduced bilimbi (AveI'Thoa above the forest canopy or when they FINEST BIRD FARM btlimbt), the dense, low vegetation ad­ make their presence known by their mitted little light. whistling call, but can be hard to Cockatiels. Canaries. FInches It was fascinating to watch the parrots distinguish when perched. Their small Lovebirds-Australian Parakeets feed. They would nip off a fruit-which size and dull coloration renders them Australian Finches· Rosellas _...-~_..... Grass Keets- Budgies grows from the trunk in small clusters­ liable to confusion with the endemic Diamond Doves and sit nearby rapidly taking large bites bulbul (a common bird in the Vallee) out of it. They would drop it after when perched. They are not likely to be perhaps half or two thirds had been confused with the Seychelles pigeon, the eaten, select another fruit and repeat the most colorful of the endemic birds, with process. The ground beneath a bilimbi its deep blue plumage, white breast and tree in which they had fed would be lit­ red wattles above the beak. The pigeon is tered with partially eaten fruits. Out of easily distinguished, even when high in curiosity I sampled one; it was juicy but the tree tops, by its larger size and (714) amazingly acid and bitter. And yet this much heavier build. It is also closely apparently is the black parrot's favorite associated with the bilimbi tree. On one 524-9653 food. occasion we saw a pair drive off a pair of parrots from a large bilimbi, Perhaps 4271 Aspenglow CirCle They also have a taste for cultivated fruits. The Figaros told me that every day they were nesting there. Yorba Linda, Ca. 92686 they feed on the guavas in their garden, To the best of my knowledge Praslin's Shipped Anywhere in the U.S. and that elsewhere they favor bananas parrot is unknown in aviculture. It is not, 40 Yes, I want to join the

IC American Federation of Aviculture,oK" +••" The WATCHBIRD Is the official bl·monthly pUblication of the AFA, anon·proflt organization. t~ "'O+~f4"'(.~'" Please enroll me as a member, start my subscrip- Membership Application tion to the Watchbird, and send me my member- Check category desired ship card which entitles me to all the benefits (1 year, 6 issues) and privileges of the American Federation of 0 $15 - Individual Aviculture membership. 0 $25 - Supporting Patron o NEW 0 RENEWAL 0 $50 _Sustaining Patron FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: add $3.50 per year for Mexico, Canada, (PI.os. r.mlt In U.S. curr.ncy) add $10.00 per year overseas (outside N. America) My check is enclosed for the amount of $, _ Telephone( area code Name

Address, _

City, _ State, _ Zip, _ Please allow 4-8 weeks for delivery of your first Issue. SEND TO: AFA, P.O, Box 1568, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 • phone (213) 372·2988

I would like to send a GIFT membership to the American Federation of AViculture

The WATCH BIRD IS the offiCial bl-monthly publication of the AFA. anon-profit organIZation

0, Ill'" Please send membership/subscription-enroll as e Membership Application a member, start delivery of the Watchbird, send Check category desired membership card with all the benefits and (1 year, 6 issues) privileges of the American Federation of o $15 - Individual Aviculture to: o $25 - Supporting Patron My check is enclosed NEW for the amount of $, _ CJ o RENEWAL o $50 - Sustaining Patron FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: add $3.50 per year for Mexico, Canada, (Pl.... r.mlt In U.S. currency) add $10.00 per year overseas (outside N. America)

Name Telephone( area code Addressi _

City, _ State _ Zip, _

Gift message to read: _ Please allow 4·8 weeks for delivery of your first Issue. SEND TO: AFA, P.O. Box 1568, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 • phone (213) 372·2988

I would like to send a GIFT membership to the American Federation of AViculture

The WATCHBIRD IS the offiCial bl monthly publication of the AFA. anon·proflt organIZation e·Ol ....'l: Please send membership/subscription-enroll as Membership Application a member, start delivery of the Watchbird, send Check category desired membership card with all the benefits and (1 year, 6 issues) "K, 0\ \\ \1 U,unu" privileges of the American Federation of o $15 - Individual Aviculture to: o $25 - Supporting Patron My check is enclosed NEW RENEWAL $50 - Sustaining Patron for the amount of $, _ CJ o o FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: add $3.50 per year for Mexico, Canada, (Pi.... r.mlt In U.S. curr.ncy) add $10.00 per year overseas (outside N. America)

Name Telephone(---l,---­ area code Address, _

City _ State _ Zipl _

Gift message to read: _ Please allow 4-8 weeks for delivery of your first Issue. SEND TO: AFA, P.O. Box 1568, Redondo Beach, CA 90278' phone (213) 372·2988 AFA REGIONAL MEETING (m imi-convention)

Saturday February 18 1984

$10.00 per person NewOrleaqs Fairmont Hotel in the French Quarter

Make your own hotel room reservations Call: (800) 527-4727, local calls (504) 529-7111, from Texas (800) 492-6622 Room rates: $70 per night, double or single Guest speakers Raffle * Public invited *

For further information contact: Joan Bordelon 722 Seyburn Ct., Baton Rouge, LA 70808 (504) 769-0322 Pet Pin Jewelry in lull color cloissone Beautifully crafted enamel with silver or gold plate over brass. We can make your club or organization logo, 150 minimum order, 1 inch, $3.00 each DEALER and CLUB inquiries invited, no minimum ITEMS SHOWN 60~o OF ACTUAL SIZE

@ Bl EF @ B22 EF

• B9 AB * Bl0 AB #B1AB #B2AB * B7 AB * B8 AB * B23 AB * B24 AB

+ B 15 AB + B 18 AB + B 19 AB * B20 AB * B21 AB • B22 AB + B14 AB * B16 AB * Bll AB ... B12 AB * B13 AB

* Sl C * Gl C x G2 D * S3 AB

* D2 AB

* Dl AB * D4 AB • D7 AB * D8 AB * D9 AB * D10 AB * Dll AB

*D12 AB * D13 AS * D14A * D15 A • D16 A * D17 A *D18 A

* Cl AB * C2 AB * C6 AB * C7 AB * F19 C

* F9 AS * F5 AS * F6 AB • F7 AS * F8 AB

*F 10 AB * Fll AB * F12 AB * F13 AB * F14 AB * F15 AB * F16 AB * F17 AB • F18 AB

New bird not shown, TOCO TOUCAN (* B26 AB) Send S.A.S. E. for free color chart of designs and price list. LEGEND for catalog numbers Add $1 .00 per order for postage and handling. 1st symbol shows price Last letters show style California residents add 6

Recognized stress symptoms in caged and exotic birds include: DIARRHEA DEHYDRATION APPETITE lOSS IRRITABILITY POOR FEATHERING WEIGHT lOSS INCREASED MORTALITY

These and other stresses upset the intestinal balance of beneficial bacteria such as Lac­ tobacillus acidophilus, and, inhibit nutrient absorption of vitamins, minerals, proteins and carbohydrates. OR-LAC, when offered daily on moist greens, grain or fruit, helps restore and maintain benefi­ cial Lactobacillus numbers in addition to supplying fourteen (14) essential vitamins necessary to the bird under stress. OR-LAC Avian Powder is specially formulated for the hand feeding of fledglings and sick birds. Available in three (3) sizes.

"Bridging The Gap Between Pet Health And Nutrition"

TO ORDER, WRITE B.D.L. DISTRIBUTORS SUMMERWINDS B.I.S. Inc. STARHAWK ENTERPRISES OR PHONE COLLECT 21309 S. E. 271 st Place 4348 Marraco Dr. 10635 Sabel Ave. Maple Valley, WA 98038 San Diego, CA 92155 Sunland, CA 91040 (206) 432-3064 (619) 286-3813 (213) 352-6698

"Registered trademark of J.p Microbial Products, Ino.,2041 SW 58th, Portland, OR 97221

THE EXACT PRESCRIPTION FOR A HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, CONTENTED BIRD. RAINBOW MEALWORMS contain 12 of the 16 elements that are found in living tissue and rich in vitamins A and B. Natural vitamin A is essential to your birds nutrition and growth. Vitamin B is required to maintain the nervous system. RAINBOW MEALWORMS are a living food, clean and odorless. They should be kept under refrigeration at 40 0 to 48 0 (but not necessary). At this they become dormant and maintain perfect condition for several months. RAI NBOW MEALWO RMS are graded in four sizes for your conveniences: SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, and MIXED. Each and every worm is fresh and lively. No need for sorting or sifting. We guarantee 10% or more over­ cou nt per measure. PROMPT SHIPMENT ALL YEAR AROUND. INSTRUCTIONS ON CARE ARE ENCLOSED WITH FIRST ORDER. MEALWORM COUNT BULK WHOLESALE PRICES (per dozen units) 1,000 "'" ,$3.75 5,000 13.50 50 ,$4,92 2,000 6.95 10,000 ., 25,00 100. ,, .. ," 7,56 3,000 8,90 20,000 ,., .. 45,00 500 , .. , .. , ,21.60 . ~ 40,000 .".,78,00 ~ \ I California Residents THE BEST FOR LESS. add 6% Sales Tax. P.O. BOX 4525 M,,(~~~;,;~~~;;;;;.,m! ~~p.\N·BO,.,~ 126 E. SPRUCE ST. ~MEALWORMS~ COMPTON, CA. 90220

43 Young captive black parrot.

cockatoos;~~ macaws,.etc . realistic "pric~s appointme:nt please 408-336-2442 serious inquiries only

rlrArl ~lk ~bilrit5

27935 Pergl Road Glenwillow, Ohio 44139 The place for hand-fed, tame and talking baby MACAWS, COCKATOOS, AMAZON PARROTS

Laparascoped sexed birds Black parrot habitat on Praslin. also available. All our birds have been alas, it was not to be. It would not have population growth. When the ornitholo­ acclimated to domestic life. been the first of Seychelles birds to be gist Michael Nicoll visited Seychelles in reprieved: in 1962 the zosterops (a small 1906, he failed to find the parakeet. Its Distributors for ABBA inconspicuous insectivorous species) was extinction must have occurred during the complete seed diet, rediscovered, after being declared extinct closing years of the 19th century.• and all sizes and types of in 1936. parrot cages and The fate ofthe Seychelles parakeet was REFERENCE training stands. sealed by its habit of raiding maize plan­ Evans, P.G.H., 1979, BioI Conserv, Status and Conservation of the Black Parrot, 233-40. tations (resulting in it being shot) and in Forshaw, ].M., 1973, Parrots of the World, the destruction of its forest habitat dur­ Lansdowne Press, Sydney. ing the 19th century. Competition for Legrand, H., 1964, Le perroquet noir de l'Isle de nest sites from introduced species, Praslin (Archipel de Seychelles), Oiseaux Revue fr Dave and Rose D'isidoro am, 34, 154-8. especially the common mynah, probably Penny, M., 1965, The black parrots of Praslin, also had an adverse effect by limiting its Animals, 7 (7), 184-7. 44 PARROTS: Triton and medium sulphur 3 BOOKS-The Cordon Bleu, The Fire Finch, crested cockatoos. Reasonable prices. Parrots of the Green Singing Finch. Each covers complete World, 239 Sunrise Highway, Rockville Centre, New CLASSIFIED step-by-step care and breeding instructions York 11570, (516) 764-0717. Ask for Marc. for cage or aviary. $5.00 each. (Please specify) Postpaid - handfeeding baby finches, SURGICALLY SEXED: Mature, compatible pairs ADS formula and easy-to-follow directions, $2.50. blue/gold macaws $750, Congo greys $750, lesser CLASSIFIED RATES - $5.00 minimum Gretchen Barker, 7837 Gladstone, White City, sulphur cresteds $1000, blue head pionus $400. Will charge for 4 lines of type (average 7 Oregon 97503. trade for eclectus. Dave Schwartz, (301) 486-3143. words per line). Additional charge of 9q: per word for ad running over 28 words. CRITON CRESTED COCKATOO: Large sized mature TALLWOOD AVIARY SUPPLY (28 words to include name, address and female, semi tame, family pet for 1'I, years. V. Fry, SILVER FLIGHT balanced diets - Aviary supplies. Write (301) 926-7084 phone.) All copy to be RECEIVED BY for prices. UPS delivered. 10537 Steel Trace Court, 1st day of month preceding publica· Charlotte, N.C. 28210. WANTED: 1 Miller's parrot () female, for tion. One inch boxed ad - 58 word breeding purposes. Contact Everglades Aviaries, maximum - $12.00 BOOK-GREY-CHEEKED PARAKEET, is now 305-524-3047. available. It contains information on diet and breeding. Send $4 to Nancy Ruffalo, P.O. Box 2481, BABY HYACINTH MACAW: Born and raised in our GRAND ECLECTUS, big, beautiful hand-fed babies Capistrano Beach, CA 92624. (price includes postage) aviaries. Hatched 7-1-83. Super precious! Two pairs $2,500 per pair, singles also available. Call (707) Australian crested doves, trade or offer. Also baby 526-7111 (Santa Rosa, CA, area) HAND RAISED BABIES: Red sided Eclectus, Sun con­ grand and red-sided eclectus, hand fed from day 1. ures, Blue head Pionus, African greys, Citrons, (707) 255-8833 or (707) 253-0938. LOVEBIRDS Black, and Blue masked $28. Peach Kakariris. O'Nita Buchwald, (713) 337-2781 or David face, normal $17, blue $26. Also English budgies. Gresser, (713) 868-4596. Houston, TX area. LOVE BIRDS FOR SALE - will ship - discounts on 1000 lovebirds to be sold during rest of 1983. Dis­ large orders. PEACH FACE normals $12.50. Jades counts and shipping on larger orders. Dealer inquiries BABY TRITON COCKATOOS, Bare-eyed cockatoos $17.50. Olives $30. Cherryheads $35. Blue $15. Med welcome. Paul, (916) 589-2133, or Bill, (714) 776-4755 bred at home and hand fed. Also Blue & gold macaws, blue (cobalt) $50. Slates $125. Silvers $35. White face Southern California. African greys. Super tame pets. Charley Osterbrink, $150. White face splits $75. Cinnamon $80. Blue cin­ NIGHT FLIGHT FARM, Box 142, Nesbit, MS 38651. namon $125. Lutinos $80. Albinos $80. PIED PEACH 1983 TURQUOISINES $75 each. 1982 Turquoisines Phone (601) 368-7972. FACE VARIETIES Greens $20-$60. Jades $30-$70. $100 each. 1-2 year old cockatiel breeders $25 each. Olives $40-$100. Cherryheads $65. Silvers $80. Blue Sis African grey Congo hen $300. No sh·lpping. Ralph $30-$70. Med blue $100 up. Slates, call. MASKED: Lima, (213) 709-0707 Los Angeles area. COCKATIEL INFORMATION HANDBOOK­ Blue $25. Black $30. White $65. Fischer's $35. Also a reliable, comprehensive gUide for sexing, limited amounts of Abyssinians, Madagascars, Black BEAUTIFUL COCKATIEL MUTATIONS. Bred for quali­ breeding, raising of baby chicks, taming and cheeks, Nyasa, call. All birds closed banded and ty and color in my outdoor aviary. Cinnamon-pearl­ training, plus general cockatiel care. The infor­ guaranteed. Also limited amounts of large heavy pied pieds, cinnamon-pieds, fallows, and others. Southern mation given in this handbook will be a helpful cockatiels $25-$60. FEATHERS BY THE SEA, Nancy California area. Call Dave, (714) 827-3447. guide for lovebirds and budgies as well. Send Polloreno, 851 Saxony Rd., Encinitas, CA 92024, Ph. $7.50 to Vernon M. Rhea, Route 3, Box 123, (619) 753-5974. FEATHERS IN THE SUN, Gary Stin­ JUST RETIRED HORTICULTURIST of Scotch lineage New Castle, IN 47362 son, 32231 Byers Rd., Sun City, CA 92381, Ph. (714) seeks part-time employment in the San Diego area 679-5185. beginning September, October or November. In­ terested in taking care of birds and/or animals. Have GOULDIANS $100/pr., $550/6 pr., Tri-colored Parrot many employment references, etc. Need private room Finches $100/pr., Reds $250/pr., Star's $60/pr., and bath, and preferably no personal involvement. $325/6 pr., Shaftails $65/pr., $350/6 pr., Societies $5, EXTREMELY RARE GREY-WINGED TRUMp· ETERS: (Psophia-crepitan) only about 30 birds Tom McDuffie, PO. Box 1616, New Canaan, Connec­ $50/doz., Crested Zebras $10, Zebras $4.50, $45/doz., ticut 06840, or phone (203) 966-1991. Male Canaries $40, $100/3, $180/6. Wholesale in­ scattered amongst all the zoos in U.S. Adults and young surgically sexed pairs, only quiries welcome. RUBINO'S BIRDS, 10830 E. 98th Terr., Kansas City, MO 64134, (816) 765-0476. $2000.00 per pair. KINGS AVIARY, NY. (212) 527-5181. LOW PRICES-HIGH QUALITY-Herds of Birds, babies to breeders. Macaws: Blue & HANDFED Green wing macaws, Moluccan and Um­ gold $399, Green wing $649, Scarlet $799, brella cockatoos, others. SAS.E. for list. WANTED, Hyacinths $1999 Cockatoos med. SUlphur Banksian hen. Bill Rodgers, PO. Box 822, Gibsonton, FORTUNE GLEN AVIARIES '83 Clonclurry $500 $699, Lesser $399, Moluccan $449, Um­ FL 33534 Phone (81 3) 677-1137. each. '83 Australian king $750 each. Cuban olive finch brellas $399, Goffin's $159. Amazons Yellow $125 pair. Stellas lories (proven) $1400 pair. Goldies nape $479, Double yellow $349, Blue front lories colony (proven) 3 cocks, 4 hens, colony $1200. $259, Orange wing $179. Hard to find birds. BABY AFRICAN PARROTS Timneh, Congo, and Galarita elenora cockatoo $1600 pair. Crimson wing Quantity discounts. (213) 995-3270, Los Senegal. Lovebirds: Blue masked and peach faced (proven) $700 pair. Rock Pebblars (proven) $700 pair, Angeles area. mutations. All domestically bred. G & G Aviary, 428 Ar­ extra male Pebblars, 28's, Port Lincoln, Pennants. mor Road, Springfield, IL 62704. Call (217) 546-8300 Dusky Pion us $600 pair, extra hens $225 each. 3141 N. Twin Oaks Valley Rd., San Marcos, CA 92069. (619) NOT THE BIGGEST ... JUST THE BESTIII Many birds COCKATOOS, handfed, super tame. Greater sulphur 744-4835 available to add to your collection, both domestic and imported. Handfed babies bred on our farm available crested (C. galerita galerita) $2500. Moluccans $1500. Umbrellas $1000. All 1983 hatch. Scarlet chested TRES MARIAS Handfed babies $1650 each. Young by reservation. Price list with informative newsletter hawk head parrots $1500 each. Bob, (813) 963-6219 and veterinarian's column free and with no obligation parakeets $190 per pair. Bourke's parakeets $90 per pair Call Patrick, (619) 443-2676, San Diego area. to you each month. Surgical sexing and consultation RED FRONTED MACAWS: 1983 hatched in my available from staff veterinarian. Nest boxes: aviaries. $1000.00 each. Mickey Ollson, Rt. 1, Box Parakeet - $1.60 ea.; Cockatiel - $2.50 ea. (small 152, Glendale, Arizona 85301, (602) 939-1003. qualtities slightly higher); Pkg. of 10 chew sticks - 65<1: AUSTRALIAN FINCHES Owl finches $85 per ea. Oak bar bells - 50<1: ea. YELLOW BIRD FARM, pair. Diamond sparrows $75 per pair. Heck's DOUBLE YELLOWHEADS: Hand fed and raised on Route 2, Box 186G, Purvis, MS 39475. Phone (601) shafttails $55 per pair. Star finches $45 per love, looking for loving homes. Also one breeding pair. 794-8579 pair. All birds raised in my aviary from strong Call (316) 663-5424 or write P.O. B\lx 152, Hutchinson, stock. Minimum order is 6 birds. Will ship. Kansas 67501. HANDFED FROM EGG, Blue and gold, and Military Micky Senior, (206) 745-4310. Everett, WA macaws, Double yellow heads, White capped Pion us. area. Reasonable. Also mature female black swan. Wanted BABY AFRICAN GREYS: Handfed, curious, tame and to buy: Luzon bleeding heart females, yellow nape loveable. Want SIS African grey male - young or old. females. George Lackey, Texas. Phone (512) I. Taylor, P.O. Box 446, Saluda, NC 28773. Ph. (704) 787-1479. POLLEN: Mother Nature's conditioning food. Powder 749-2521 (birds only) $4.50 per lb. Pellets (birds & people) $5.50 per lb., $5 per lb. for 5 Ibs. or over, plus shipping. Follow UPS charts. Add 1 lb. for shipping container. FOR SALE AVIARY BRED, HAND FED baby Jim Ford, Dept. 0, 7160 S. Brookhill Drive, Salt Lake LEADBEATER COCKATOO BABIES (Major macaws; scarlets, military, Catalina. Hand fed City, UT 84121 (801) 943-7618. Mitchell), domestically bred, handfed, will be baby Amazons; blue fronts, blue croens, spec­ weaned mid-July. Call A. Chandler, (213) tacled, double yellow heads. Hand fed baby 454-6971. Los Angeles area. WANTEDI WANTED I WANTEDI Quality general mer­ cockatoos; triton, and umbrella. Also breeding chandise and stock. Clients coast to coast, import and age stock in all the above birds. Call for info. export. Anita's Gallerie, Feathers & Fur, 14000 Raven, and price list. (714) 824-3834. D. Banta. Sylmar, California 91342. 45 COCKATIELS: lutinos, lutino pearls, pearls, pearl pieds, PLUMHEADED PARAKEETS - tame, healthy hand­ green pearl pieds, cinnamons, cinnamon pearls, cin­ fed babies. Hatched March 1983. Anna Lundgren, AVICULTURAL INDEX -A complete index namon pearl pieds, cinnamon pieds, fallows, splits of P.O Box 741, Normal, Illinois 61761. (309) 452-9656. for Watchbird and all other major magazines most mutations. Also, Golden mantled rosellas. Some is now available. Find articles by author, sub­ breeders available. Will ship. Double Grove Aviary, FOR SALE: Four 1983 hatch White capped parrots ject and title. Show results and book reviews (213) 919-5989. (Pionus senilis) $350 each. Richard Zimmerman, 2227 incl uded. 1981 and 1982 Indexes ava ilable at Kibby Rd., Jackson, MI 49203, (517) 783-4439 low introductory cost of $7.50 each. Write to BULLDOZER COMINGI-Can anyone is Southern Avicultural Index, 915 Kearney, Manhattan, California use aviary panels? Wood frame, exterior FOR SALE Pair mated lesser sulfur-crested KS 66502 plywood, wire, average size 4' x 8', '/,' x ,/,' hard­ cockatoos, excellent health and feather, crests deep. ware cloth in good shape. Would like to retrieve wire Vibrant sulfur, very devoted to each other and willing. GREATER SU LPH UR-CRESTED COCKATOO (Galerita cost, negotiable. Costa Mesa area, (714) 548-3133. Need room we don't have. Mark Campbell, (303) galerita), hatched 5/6/83. Hand-raised. Extremely 295-3312 Denver area. loveable and affectionate. $2,800. Iris Finz, Star Route DOUBLE YELLOW-HEADED Amazon babies, hand­ Box 198, Dulzu ra, CA 92017. Ph. (619) 468-3660. fed. Red-headed Amazon babies, handfed A. FOR SALE: Gold mantled rosellas w/cage. $380 or of­ Chandler, (213) 454-6971 Los Angeles area. fer. Cockatiel wi cage $40. (213) 372-7309 Los Angeles WANTED - Lutino ringneck parakeet Mature female. Iris Finz, Star Route Box 198, Dulzura, CA ECLECTUS MALE: Talks, friendly; Moluccan, excep­ 92017. Ph. (619) 46&3660. tional color, loves petting; blue front, talks, tame; con­ "BREEDING CONURES" book by Robbie Harris, based on our own experiences. Hard­ go grey, tame, mimics sounds; Timneh grey, untame. PHILIPPINES BLUE-NAPED PARROT (Tanygnathus cover, 142 color photos, autographed upon re­ Best reasonable offers. Write Carol Murphy, 130 lucionensis). Rare in U.S.A. Egg producing mated pair. quest, $11.00 postpaid U.SA WANTED Moody St., North Andover, MA 01845. For more information about this species see article in Brotogeris beebee, tui, white winged, golden­ AFA Watchbird (Aug.lSept '80 issue) $1000.00 firm. winged, plain parakeets, others and muta­ PARAKEETS: Yng. Slatyhead $75, Scarlet Chested Will ship. Please write: John C. Hughes, 186 Pine Hill tions. Also want African parrots - yellow­ $100, Split Yellow Bourkes $100, normal hen $50. Road, RFD 113, Nashua, NH 03060. LOVE BIRDS: Split lutino if male - Green $22.50, faced, Jardine's, brown-headed, red-bellied, Ruppell's, others and mutations. Fred and Blue $27.50. Blue Mask $18. FINCH: Cuban WANTED TO BUY: Female (hen) Red vented cockatoo Robbie Harris, P.O. Box 297, Sunland, CA Melodious, Olive, Jacarina. MOCTEZUMA BIRD for my lonely male. No feather pluckers. Please write: 91040. (213) 353-0385 GARDENS - PO. Box 1973, Escondido, CA 92025 John C. Hughes, 186 Pine Hill Road, RFD 113, Nashua, (619) 741-3421 will ship. NH 03060. BIRD KEEPER NEWS, a Florida bird magazine, PO CONGO AFRICAN GREY PARROTS - 1983 BABIES Box 7126, Naples, FL 33941. Mrs. Lee Howells (619) 727-5972. (CA) Trades con­ FOR SALE OR TRADE: Male for female sidered. GRAND ECLECTUS PARROTS Big, beautiful, hand­ mature surgically sexed birds. Three male fed, tame birds. Woodland Hills, CA (213) 347-1107. gold capped conures, three male cherry head­ ed conures, one male Finsch's conure. Need TOPPER FEED-ORDER TOLL FREE Call the DECREASE YOUR BIRD LOSS Have your birds tested male jenday conure or male sun conure. Bud­ number and wait for 5 seconds for an for bacterial diseases and parasites. Culture and sen­ dy Martin, JUNGLE BUSH AVIARY, 204 S. operator. Tell operator you want account sitivity studies will identify the type of bacteria and Schuyler, Brodley, Illinois 60915. 815­ 111-3-5-7, "Mcinnis Co in Port Arthur." Texas drugs effective for proper treatment Fecal examina­ 939-2732 after 5 p.m. call 1-800-292-5098. Other states tions will identify worms and parasites. Bacterial ID 1-800-531-7383 Write to 1104 9th Ave., Port and drug sensitivity studies $15 each. Fecal check for FOR SALE BOOKLET, Aviaries and Cages, produced Arthur, Texas 77642. (409) 983-2737. worms and parasites $5 each. Collect telephone by the African Love Bird Society, includes articles by replies if your problem is serious Laboratory testing 10 leading aviculturists from the U.S., along with performed under the supervision of an avian BIRD BREEDING AID - Watch the amazing reaction many sketches and photos. Price $4.95, add 75¢ veterinariam. Send $1.50 for mailer, transport of your bi rds when they hear our cassette tape of baby postage for U.S, Canada, Mexico. Add $1.50 postage medium to preserve sample for culture, and fecal con­ birds begging food and being fed. It reawakens and for all other foreign orders. ALBS, P.O. Box 142, San tainer for worms and parasites to: VET TESTING SER­ stimulates breeding instincts in all species. Send Marcos, CA 92069 VICE, PO Box 1000-W, Westminster, CA 92683. $10.00 ppd. for tape to, Avicultural Advancement, P.O. Box 443, New Washington, OH 44854. BUMPER STICKERS, "I love Love Birds," "I love COCKATIELS: Lutino pearl, heavy cinnamon pied and birds." $1.50 each, add 25¢ postage for U.S., Canada, greens. '83 female lutino Indian ring necks, '83 lame FOR SALE: Albino and lutino peachface lovebirds Mexico. Add 75¢ postage for all other foreign orders. lutino split, '80 female Indian ring neck, female yellow ALBS, P.O. Box 142, San Marcos, CA 92069. $70.00; males $100.00; split males $40.00; blues red-rumps, peachface lovebirds. Helen Forsy1he, $35.00; green and blue pieds $35.00-$70.00; also (707) 226-8671, Napa, CA. silvers and normals. WANTED: Male pionus max­ LEADBEATER & MOLUCCAN COCKATOO BABIES, very tame & affectionate, handfed, some now imiliani and female double yellow heads. - Dr. R. E ROSE-BREASTED COCKATOOS Handfed from beau­ Baer, (614) 836-5832 weaned. A. Chandler (213) 454-6971. tifully colored parents. Healthy, intelligent and talking. Males and females. Charlotte Dinsmoor, P.O. Box FOR SALE, Sis mature pair Redhead Amazons $800. WANTED - FEMALE MEALY AMAZON. Lonely male 865, Nipomo, CA 93444 (805) 489-7730. mealy looking for mature, family oriented mate. Con­ Sis mature pair Yellow napes $1400, also Sis male Yellow nape. A Chandler (213) 454-6971. tact my owner, Lisa McDaniel, 1308 Nutmeg Ln, PEACOCKS: '82 & '83 hatch. Blues, whites, pieds, Davis, CA 95616. (916) 756-8499. black shoulders, Javas and Spauldings. Ben Caballero, (714) 823-6502 evenings & weekends. BABY SCARLET MACAWS: California Bred, Hand Fed We specialize in RARE, UNIQUE and babies, Weaned or Unweaned, Hatch certificates pro­ UNUSUAL birds. Catering to breeders, zoos, vided. Call David at Birds Unlimited (213) 760-1877. ORDER TOPPER FEED TOLL FREE and other institutions. Let us know your wants 1-800-531-7383 out of Texas and needs. Write or call for list Ed Hamilton, 1-800-292-5098 within Texas 3749 8th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103. (619) SAVE $$$$: Western Wholesale Pet Supply 560-4123. now selling to private breeders. Cups, cages, Call the number and wait 5 seconds for an perches, millet spray, bulk cuttlebone, operator and tell her you want Account vitamins, grit, toys, nets, nests, and breeding 111-3-5-7 (Mcinnis Co.), or write us at 1104 9th boxes. Complete line of bulk seeds and Ave., Port Arthur, Texas 77642. (409) EXCELLENT 2 PAIRS GRAND ECLECTUS, breeding breeder-proven mixes. Low, low prices. Send 983-2737. pair. Must sell due to moving. $4800 per pair. Female s.a.s.e. for price list WESTERN WHOLESALE 1'/2 years old $1750. Female 5 months old $1500. PET SUPPLY, P.O. Box 40177, Casper, Wyo. HANDFED BABIES Mexican red head (green cheek) Also available adult Grand Eclectus pair. Ready for 82604 Amazons, African greys, red head-red lored crosses, breeding $4400. All very large birds in beautiful condi­ umbrella cockatoos, nanday conures, cockatiels, etc. tion. One adult female Eclectus, smaller kind $1300. All raised in our home Photos upon request Linda Ingrid Linders (813) 886-9614 after 5 pm Florida time. BARE-EYED COCKATOOS Sweet and Loveable Price, (803) 366-7350, Rt 8, Box 238, Rock Hill, SC California Bred, Hand Fed babies, Hatch certificate~ 29730 ROSEBREASTED COCKATOOS. Ready for breeding provided. Call David at Birds Unlimited (213) this coming season. Perfect condition. Must sell due 760-1877. to moving. $4750 per pair. Surgically sexed. Ingrid COCKATOO SPECIALS - Moluccans $399. Linders (813) 886-9614 after 5 pm Florida time. ECLECTUS PARROTS: Over 30 bred this year - Only Umbrellas $325. Goffin's $135. Lesser sulphur 4 remaining, California Bred, Hand Fed babies. Hatch crested $350. We ship nationwide. Live AFRICAN GREYS. Approximately 4 years in my certificates provided. Call David at Birds Unlimited delivery guaranteed. Quantity prices available. possession from baby age. Now ready for breeding. In (213) 760-1877. Open 12-6 daily. Michael's Bird Paradise Inc., perfect condition. Reasonably tame. Have to sell due INDIAN RINGNECK PARAKEETS: Handfed babies are P.O. Box 9046, Riviera Beach, FL 33404. ph to moving. $975 per pair. Also two males, ready for super tame, $100.00. Bob Perkins, 72 San Jose Circle, (305) 842-1050. breeding $475 each. All birds surgically sexed. Ingrid Winter Park, Florida 32792. (305) 671-6942. Linders (813) 886-9614 after 5 pm Florida time. 46 HOME BRED AND HAND RAISED: Rose breasted WANTED: Top price paid for rare cockatoos. Allen cockatoo, hawkhead parrot, hyacinth, and blue & gold Aviaries, collector and breeder. 415-851-2470, CA. macaws. Marianne Hayes, (817) 382-7097. CITRON CRESTED COCKATOOS-Pair of SPOON FED BABIES: Tritan cockatoos $2250. Moiuc­ compatible mature breeders for sale or trade can cockatoos $2000. Eclectus parrots, male $1200, ·'.,JI.USTRALIA BOUND - Will sell entire collection. A for rare Rosellas, Austrailian Parakeets, unique opportunity to acquire quality young proven hen $1700. Allen Aviaries, collector and breeder. Australian Parrots. Allan Taylor, 13 Trails End, 415-851-2470, CA. pairs l Proven breeding cockatiel pairs $125.00. Bozeman, Mt. 59715. (406) 587-3338. Young and yearlings; normals $35.00, lutino, pied, and TRITON COCKATOO babies, very large, handfed, pearis $45.00. Breeding colony of 30 pied peach face super tame and already talking. A. Chandler, (213) lovebirds, producing 40 to 50 young a year, $1100.00 454-6971. Los Angeles area. for entire colony. 1983 babies $30.00. Cockatiel BABY PRINCESS OF WALES parakeets, hatched April breeding cages $40.00, small and large nest boxes all 1983, $200. Jim Schmidt, Decatur, GA. Phone (404) varieties. Anthony Flanagan (619) 481-3276. 377-6319. WANTED CANADA. Looking for two female Vernal Hanging Parrots, Bare Eyed SURGICALLY SEXED BIRDS: Handfed babies, pairs Cockatoos, Good quality Grass - Keets and of yellow nape Amazons $1200.00, Tres Marias colour mutations. We are interested in TOP ILLINOIS AVIARY, from our hands to yours, $900.00, baby yellow napes $550.00, Tres Marias quality nutritional supplies and parrot related home bred, hand raised African "grey parrots $450.00, scarlet macaw $1000.00, others, will ship. items to add to our line for a mail order priced from $600. Moluccan cockatoos from (213) 710-8643. business, direct from manufacturer or sup­ $1200. For further information call Dr. and plier. Write to WINGS OF HOPE, 255 Wrigley Mrs. Ray Kotz, Scarlet Feathers Aviary, (312) PRINCESS OF WALES: Barrabands, rock pebblers, Cres., Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7M 4Y3. 428-8218. Barrington, IL. red-rumps, turquoisines, lutino and possible split blue ringnecks, Bourkes and split rosey Bourke males. Cliff Chamberlin, Central Point, OR (503) 664-3744. DOMESTICALLY BRED - HAN DFED BABIES; all ages, 5 weeks to just weaned. "LITTLE DARLINGS" - Lovebird youngsters. Albino BUDGIE BREEDERS: 1982 hatch, pieds and harle­ COCKATOOS: Moluccans (good color), peach; lutinos; blues; cinnamon; splits. Also masked quins. All colors. $10.00 each, no shipping. Ralph Leadbeaters, Tritons. MACAWS: Blue & gold, and Fischer varieties. Individualized attention given to Uma, P.O. Box 2146, Canoga Park, CA (213) 709-0707. Catalina, Scarlet, Greenwing. AMAZONS: each bird. The Bird Boutique, Chicago, IL (312) Double yellow heads, Red heads. AFRICAN 784-4018. GREYS: Congo, young, hand fed $900. 1 mature Sis pair Yellow nape Amazons. 1 Sis CINCINNATI ANiMAL PRODUCTIONS thanks the CUTTLEBONE - best batch yet' New lower l Yellow nape male. 1 Sis pair Mexican red A.FA and its participating members for their warm prices 6-13" and cleaned, 5 Ib @ $3.90 per heads. 1 male Derbyan, mature. Arlene reception at the 9th Annual A.F.A. Convention. In lb. ($19.50), or 10 Ibs @ $3 per Ib ($30). Chandler, (213) 454-6971 . response to the many written and telephone inquiries, SCHROEDER &ATKINSON, 644 South Isis, In­ CAP. is pleased to offer PARROT TAMING MADE glewood, CA 90301. Ph. (213) 776-6486. All EASY, a detailed, no-nonsen~e two hour self-instruc­ orders prepaid and shipped freight collect. SUPER TAME HANDFED BABIES: Bred in our aviary. tional audio cassette that teaches you to tame parrots Citrons, umbrellas, pionus, senegals, yellowed col­ (macaws, cockatoos, Amazons, conures, African lared macaws, double yellow, lilac crowned, and other Amazons. Extremely affectionate and loveable. Pat & greys). SIDE I- Principles of Parrot Training (1 hour LADY GOULDS: Red headed adults in full color. Don Mathews (412) 486-0148, Allison Park, PA, 15101 of parrot behavior modification, the reward method, Raised outdoors by own parents. $120.00 per pair. No and the most frequently asked questions about parrot shipping. Call Mike, Downey, CA (213) 869-0349. taming). SIDE II - The 5 Steps to Parrot Taming (1 KINGS AVIARY CAN SAVE YOU $ $ $ $ : Deal hour of step by step instruction that guides you GOULDIANS: Red and black hens, full color. Raised direct with importer. One of the largest im­ through the taming of a parrot). A nice gift for the true by natural parents in outside aviaries. Banded in nest porters of African grey parrots and birds of parrot enthusiast who seriously wants to tame par­ for accurate records. $60 and $65 each. Howard Guyana in U.S. Adult green wings $400.00 rots. Send check or money order for $14.95 plus $2.00 Burke, Covina, CA (213) 967-2636. each. Hawk heads $650.00 each. Yellow for postage and handling to Cincinnati Animal Produc­ crowns $200.00 each. Dusky pionus babies tions, P.O. Box 404, Cincinnati, Ohio 45201. Allow 3-4 LORIES - Captive bred in our outdoor aviaries. 12 $400.00 each. White and yellow sulphur weeks for delivery. species available. Reasonable prices. Also Great breasted toucans $500.00 each. Tame baby Curassows, 1983 hatch. "Michanne Acres" Joe & yellow napes $550.00 each. Others. KINGS Marge Longo, (206) 631-4245, Kent, WA. AVIARY, NY. (212) 527-5181 or 527-9281. WANTED - one hen Yellow-thighed Caique (Pionites I. xanthomeria) and one cock Red­ EXTREMELY RARE: Hispaniolan conures $550.00 CANARIES - COCKATIELS: Red factors, nightingale bellied Conure (Pyrrhura f. frontalis). Top each. Also rare hispaniolan Amazons. Some tame. All dollar for young, domestically-raised stock. strain Bred for glorious song. Lutino, pearls, cin­ birds are healthy and in perfect feather. Sandy namons, pieds, splits, double splits. Shipping FOB, Gary Sutherland, 400 Manzanita Ave., Corte Michaels (419) 562-3916. Madera, CA 94925. Phone (415) 927-0184 be­ SASE. C. Cook, 4115 Downing, Annandale, VA 22003. tween 8:00-10:00 a.m. P.D.T. San Francisco (703) 256-6378. area. CANADA Grass-Keets Bourke's $75, Yellow Bourke's $250, Split Yellow $150, Tur­ COCKATIELS: Normals, lutinos, heavy pieds, lutino quoisines $85, Splendids $110, Blue Splendids pearls, pearls, pearl pieds, cinnamon, cinnamon FOR SALE: East Texas at Toledo Bend Lake in heart of $400, Rock Pebblers $185. Also Cockatiels, pearls, cinnamon pearl pieds, cinnamon pieds. Also Sabine National Forest - 12.8 acres, 4/212 CUSTOM Amazons, Cockatoos, Princess, Kakarikies English and American parakeets all colors. Canaries HOME; 36 x 96 ft. aviary, 16 x 36 ft. office, water, gas, and more. Write to WI NGS OF HOPE, 255 all colors. S&A Bird Farm, 13325 Willow Ave., West electric. Flights 8 feet high, 234 x 13 ft., 68 x 13 ft., 1 Wrigley Cres., Saskatoon, Sask. Canada S7M Covina, CA 91790. (213) 338-2637 12 x 13 ft., insect and vermin proof. Pond, fruit trees, 4Y3. All birds are raised in our Aviaries and veg. garden, commercial green house 40 x 100 ft. Ap­ are GUARANTEED. SEED: We have quality mixes at affordable prices for prox. $25,000 worth quality breeders (mostly psit­ Canary, Cockatiel, Finch, Love Bird, Parakeet and Par­ tacines) inciuded at discount if buyer wishes. Informa­ rot; or we can custom mix to your specifications. Also SAVE MONEY'! Don't buy expensive, short lived cuttle­ tion call or write Peaceable Kingdom, Rt. 1, Box 1122, have Spray Millet, Cuttlebone, Grit, Treat, Sunflowers bone when you can get "ALL-IN-ONE"TM CAL­ Shelbyville, Texas 75973, (409) 368-2468. and Safflower. All orders shipped U.P.S. Send S.A.SE CIUM/MINERAUGRIT BLOCKS. Used nationwide, they for price list to KESTER'S INC., P.O. Box V-WBM, are available in small @ 25¢ (min. 20), large @ 5O¢ Omro, WI 54963. (414) 685-2929. (min. 12), xtra hard large @ 65¢ (min. 12), no grit large RAINBOW GOULDIAN FINCHES. Lady Goul­ @ 45¢ (min. 12), huge aviary hard @ $3.50 (min. 2). All ECLECTUS, grand, red-sided, Solomon Island, hand­ dian Finches. All normal colors. All ages. blocks shipped fast via U.P.S. postpaid! (continental Beautiful young pairs ready for breeding. One fed babies, fabulous size and color. I buy and sell adult U.S.A.) Try the best, almost everyone else is' Send eclectus on occasion. Bernie Conner, (707) 526-7111. free Society Finch with purchase of pair. Dis­ check or money order to: EXOTIC BIRD PRODUCTS, counts on orders of more than five pair. P.O. Box 128, 401 E. 1st St. Newberg, Oregon 97132. Breeding advice free. Inquiries welcome. VISIT PETLANDS BIRDWORLD: At the Gulfview Square Mall, 9409 U.S. Highway Phone: (703) 356-4605 (Washington DC area). A TOY THAT'S MORE THAN A TOY! A calcium/minerall 19N. Port Richey, Florida 33568. Telephone grit block xtra hard, on a chain with a strong snap for (813) 848-8787 for one of the best selections parrots that like to chew, or play, or that are bored, or of parrots, cockatoos, macaws, and many plucking. This toy makes a great gift for your friends in other parrot-like birds. Most are very tame and the fancy. The "BLOCK 'N CHAIN TOY" comes in super talkers. Currently in stock - 10 species HATCHED IN MY AVIARY: Handfed hyacinth, SMALL for keets, small conures, cockatiels, @ $2.20 of Amazon parrots, 6 species of macaws, catalina and blue & gold macaws. Proven ea. (min. 2), LARGE @ $3.95 ea. (min. 2). When the African greys, 5 species of cockatoos and pairs IIliger macaws, scarlet macaws and um­ block is finally used up, REPLACEMENTS are many, many more. Call today for latest selec­ brella cockatoos. Mickey Hensel, Rt. 1, Box available'! A toy forever' Send check or money order 222, Kankakee, III. 60901. (815) 932-9631. to: EXOTIC BIRD PRODUCTS, P.O. Box 128, 401 E. 1st tion. We ship throughout United States and worldwide. We also purchase all types of St., Newberg, Oregon 97132 (shipped postpaid cont. parrot-like birds. U.SA) 47