Shady streams KLEIN BEGIN IS upward trend of the PERCH AND CRATE newsletter GROOT GEWIN Blue-throated Macaw REQUIRMENTS FOR BIRDS Page 4 Page 6 Page 16 Page 18 NAMAQUA SAND GROUSE (PTEROCLES NAMAQUA) THE NAMAQUA SANDGROUSE IS A SPECIES OF GROUND-DWELLING BIRDS IN THE SANDGROUSE FAMILY. IT IS FOUND IN ARID REGIONS OF SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA, ANGOLA, BOTSWANA, LESOTHO, NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, AND ZIMBABWE. PAGE 8 VOL 32 NO 7 CONTENTS 3 VoLume 32 / Number 07 4 Shady streams newsletter - May 1988 “At a meeting held at the Helderfontein Conference Centre on Sunday the 17 January 1988, a national body called the Avicultural Council of Southern Africa was formed.” 6 KLEIN BEGIN IS GROOT GEWIN Vanaf ‘n algemene belangstelling in voëls vroeg in sy lewe het Hennie Stadler gevorder tot ‘n voëlteler met ‘n belangstelling in mutasies en kleur by voëls. Soos by baie voëltelers het sy belangstelling begin by voëls wat hy saam met ‘n hok gekoop het. » p.6 7 Avian Parasite Control The most common complication of captivity is the increased exposure to parasites. Whilst there are many forms of parasites, we will be looking at worms. AVIZANDUM and MEDPET (PTY) LTD have teamed up to bring you the reader a special offer. 8 Namaqua Sand Grouse The Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua), is a species of ground-dwelling bird in the sandgrouse family. It is found in arid regions of south-western Africa, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. There are thirteen species, with twenty-eight sub species. These are found on the African continent, Asia, Europe, and the Middle east. » p.8 16 Survey confirms upward trend of the Blue- throated Macaw in Bolivia What are the indications that the Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis), which is still listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, is any better off after 27 years? This is the number of years that the Loro Parque Fundación has supported in-country partner activities for the conservation of this species, endemic to one of South America’s largest grassland floodplains, the Llanos de Moxos in northern Bolivia. 18 PERCH AND CRATE REQUIRMENTS FOR BIRDS Due to the increasing number of birds being flown over the world and across South Africa, the NSPCA had noticed the use of crates for birds which is not compliant with the IATA Live » p.18 Animals Regulations. All perching birds are required to have suitable perches in the crates specific for the species and size. 2 Avizandum Birdkeeping Magazine July 2020 www.avizandum.co.za EDITORIAL VOLUME 32 NUMBER 07 uly is an exciting time in the aviculturist and his love for the Remember their next Convention avicultural year. Not only must Asiatic species. His message in September 2022.Avizandum Jwe muster the energy to face to beginners and old hands will bring you all the information the challenges of Covid-19 in our is clear, quality is better than and news on attending the X th daily lives, but the eff ects it has on quantity. Thank you, Hennie. International Parrot Convention, our Hobby is also putting strain on Parasite control (Worms in 26 to 29 September 2022. Puerto breeders. None the less we need particular) is always a guessing de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. to prepare for the coming breeding game, but in this issue we We have included some season, our African Parrots and have called in the assistance legislative requirements for the Asiatic Parrots are already busy of Dr Rob and the MEDPET transport of Parrots, as set out by in the nests, with the Galah team to assist in getting the the National Council of SPCA`s. Cockatoos short on their heels. diagnosis and medication spot We trust that the July issue will Changing diets from maintenance on, what an off er not to accept. be a learning experience for old to breeding diets, setting up Thank you MEDPET, long and young alike. Remember for nest boxes and preparations for may this relationship last. those who like the feel of a book babies in the parrot’s nursery, all July`s featured species is in your hand, SUBSCRIBE now keeping us all remarkably busy. one that is not that popular in to the next Issue in Print. At Avizandum we’re busy aviculture, but ads the missing May the 2020 breeding preparing for the all new run touch to any mixed aviary. The season be a great success for of printed magazines, the fi rst Namaqua Sand Grouse, is unique us all. Enjoy the magazine. of which will be the August in so may ways that 2020 issue. This issues will having them in your be a show stopper, annual collection is a must. subscriptions are now available Just remember at www. avizandum. co.za. in South Africa, August month will thus herald captivity permits the return of the legendary hard are required. Enjoy copy AVIZANDUM, subscribe this article, you now to ensure you receive your will be amazed one in a lifetime relaunch issue. at the number of But back to the July 2020 issue, sub-species and in this issue we take a step back their distribution in time and look at an article across the globe. published in May 1988, when Not to mention AVIZANDUM was still a fax, typed the most beautiful on a typewriter by Dave and Vera. cover picture of This article was about the that magnifi cent founding of the Avicultural female. Society of Southern Africa, Loro Parque, today known as Parrot Breeders and David Association of Southern Africa Waugh, has (PASA). Their goals and brought us objectives set out by David. some good What foresight these founders news about the had to envisage the challenges Blue Throated our hobby would face in years Macaw in to come. We will delve into the Bolivia. Keep progress made by PASA soon. supporting Hennie Stadler shares his their cause trials and tribulations as an in Aviculture. www.avizandum.co.za Avizandum Birdkeeping Magazine July 2020 3 THE ARCHIVES SHADY STREAMS NEWSLETTER - MAY 1988 David and Vera Dennison, Hillcrest May 1988. At a meeting held at the to the formation of this council is they be aviary bred and closed rung Helderfontein Conference Centre as follows: or wild caught birds. A resolution on Sunday the 17 January At the CITES meeting held in asking that ALL international airlines “1988, a national body called the Ottawa, Canada in 1987 a resolution be prevented from carrying as Avicultural Council of Southern was tabled to stop the international cargo wildlife, including birds, was Africa was formed.The background movement of ALL birds, whether TEMPORARILY shelved and was 4 Avizandum Birdkeeping Magazine July 2020 www.avizandum.co.za THE ARCHIVES revised in 1989. Had this resolution be to work with Nature Conservation been passed it would have been the and not against them. start to the end of aviculture. THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR CITES resolutions were inacted HANDS. We would like to ask all into South African Law in 1983 but our friends and yours to help protect have never been implemented in our hobby by joining the Avicultural practice. THIS IS NOW CHANGING Society of Southern Africa. We are and it is felt that we need a enclosing application forms herewith. STRONG organisation with local Remember this is not just another and international affiliation to be bird club. We have the SANCBA sure that when laws are drawn up to and its very efficient network of clubs regulate our avicultural activities, our countrywide to serve that side of practical experience is taken into the hobby. This society is purely to account.The fact of the matter is that protect the rights of aviculturists, not it is going to happen so our aim must just locally, but internationally. www.avizandum.co.za Avizandum Birdkeeping Magazine July 2020 5 PROFILE KLEIN BEGIN IS GROOT GEWIN anaf ‘n algemene met dieselfde hoeveelheid Goldwing belangstelling in voëls vroeg Pro 20 saam met gekookte erte en in sy lewe het Hennie Stadler mielies voorgesit. Dit word ‘n paar gevorder tot ‘n voëlteler met keer ‘n week afgewissel met appels ‘nV belangstelling in mutasies en kleur en uitloop saad. by voëls. Soos by baie voëltelers het Hy beveel aan dat hokke en kaste sy belangstelling begin by voëls wat in ‘n beskutte gang weg van die hy saam met ‘n hok gekoop het. wind geplaas word. Aan die voorkant In 2006 het hy sy eerste paar van sy hokke het hy mikrosproeiers Groen Pruimkoppe gekoop omdat geplaas vir die onverwagse warm hulle vir hom mooi was en as gevolg somersdae. Hy het reeds in 2014 van hul Asiatiese herkoms. Hy het begin om in hanghokke te broei. Dit gou tot die besef gekom dat beperkte was so suksesvol dat hy al sy hokke kennis gevaarlik is en dat hy sy kennis intussen verander het. moet uitbrei om te voorkom dat hy In 2014 koop hy sy eerste Grey ‘n rat voor die oë gedraai word. Hy Green Pruimkop. In 2019 teel hy skaf in 2006 Sjack Bastian se “Asiatic ‘n Grey Green Pruimkop met rooi parrots and their mutations” aan. in sy stert. Die betrokke voël gaan Daarmee begin hy in alle erns met sy binnekort met Opaline en later met missie om self mutasies uit te werk en Lutino gebroei word. Verlede jaar sy eie parings te bepaal. het hy sy eerste Lutino mannetjie Hennie heg baie waarde aan gekoop en daarop gebroei. Hy het die veilige bestuur van sy hokke. tans Misty, Misty Grey Green, Opaline Rotbeheer is veral vir hom van en Lutino.