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Post by fischer on Nov 6, 2004 2:29:56 GMT 10
HI Viraba, I was not sure where you lived, if I see any up your way, Ill let you know. I'm after a few pairs of bush budgies myself, and I do agree with you about buying birds sight unseen. Add freight costs and it can become an expensive exersize  . We will just have to be patient, they are becoming more common in Aviculture, It seems strange to me that a bird so common in the wild, is so hard to find in the Aviaries of Australia. Sometimes they are called Shell Parrots in the sale lists too. . Cheers Tony |
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Post by hillcresttiels on Nov 6, 2004 6:25:00 GMT 10
Hi Tony i have to agreee with your theory on Pure Normal Strains, A pure normal cockatiel would almost be impossible to find.Sometimeswhen i'm a bit bored I grab the Binoculars and travel 45 minutes North of where I live to a spot where I love studying them in the wild and in a recent expedition I viewed wild tiels that had pearling, and pearl pied, cinnamons and normals with tick markings indicating pied splits.The one thing i do notice every trip and that is every Tiel has a full crest,and head of fur Hmmm.. cheers Frank
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Post by josiedownunda on Nov 6, 2004 7:34:19 GMT 10
So Frank do you think these colours are occuring naturally or maybe it is because of escaped birds finding their way into a wild flock and breeding? I have never seen tiels in the wild but would love to.
Interesting about the full crests and head f eathers though. It suggests the stronger birds do not exhibit this trait so by natural selection the baldies are culled. Also would seem that plucking is not an issue in wild birds and most plucking is induced by our own breeding practices! Would you agree with these theories?
Jo-Anne
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Post by fischer on Nov 6, 2004 7:35:38 GMT 10
Hi Frank, Wish I still had a full head of fur ;D. You are lucky to be able to see Tiels in the wild, I wish I could, but its worrying that there are coloured birds running in the flocks you observed, I hope there wern't too many  . I tried a few years back to buy a pair or two of normal grey tiels and couldn't find a single bird that wasn't split, Im still looking, I think it very important to keep some birds of normal colour, maybe someone who reads this will know of some. Cheers Tony |
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Post by hillcresttiels on Nov 6, 2004 9:22:24 GMT 10
Hi Jo-Anne and Tony firstly i,m pretty confident that the Tiels I was viewing were wild bred birds from wild stock although i cannot be 100% certain as i do believe an aviary bred version wouldn't survive and with the head coverage Jo i was referring to feather plucking and not bald spots as you mentioned, it doesn,t seem to be an issue in the wild and this particular flock I was viewing would have been approx 50-80 birds involved,the one thing i did notice was that all the pieds also carried pearling and the pied effect was very light, cheers Frank |
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. I tried a few years back to buy