Keeping birds

[zooyouthben]

how do teh rescue permits work in QLD can you keep anything you rescue? or do they have to go to a WIRES type organaisation

here if you rescue something and it cannot be released and they think you have appropriatte facilities and knowledge you get a permit to keep taht one animal.

[avinet]

In Queensland there is no central organisation such as WIRES. Instaed there are a lot of local small groups who get issued a group rescue license which covers their members. It is also possible for individuals to get their own rescue license if they can satisfy the EPA of their competence. Most of these are ex-members of a rescue body with which they have fallen foul of since unfortunately politics seems to be a feature of many of these groups.

In theory any native animal which can't be released back into the wild after care is supposed to be euthanased, unless it is suitable to go into the zoo system. In practise many are kept but cannot be bred from or traded.

cheers,

Mike

[avinet]

Jul 25, 2008 22:23:45 GMT 10 @rainbowfeathers77 said:

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I'm wondering now, why don't the babies survive, the ones that got cared for by their parents until they were out of the nest?

Food, or the lack of it. The figures are the average over several breeding seasons, and they found that there was quite a variation from year to year in survival rates of babies. In drought times there was a very poor success rate, but in a good season a much higher proportion survived.

cheers,

Mike

[rainbowfeathers77]

Food ! Hmmm... that one didn't even cross my mind. Poor gallies
Thanks for the info Mike!

[farseeker]

Jul 26, 2008 21:58:19 GMT 10 avinet said:

In Queensland there is no central organisation such as WIRES. Instaed there are a lot of local small groups who get issued a group rescue license which covers their members. It is also possible for individuals to get their own rescue license if they can satisfy the EPA of their competence. Most of these are ex-members of a rescue body with which they have fallen foul of since unfortunately politics seems to be a feature of many of these groups.

In theory any native animal which can't be released back into the wild after care is supposed to be euthanased, unless it is suitable to go into the zoo system. In practise many are kept but cannot be bred from or traded.

cheers,

Mike

Yeah, I remember when I first got Squee we phoned quite a few wildlife carers - they all said that as he was a runner if he was given to them he would be euthanised immediately - most of them implied that he would be better off with us, so with us he stayed.

[Laraine]

I must admit that I am a collector (much to my husband's dismay). I started with budgies and tiels and now have been buying more upmarket birds: green cheeks, kaks, elegants, scarletts, turks, rosellas, red rumps, lorikeets etc. When a partner dies, which they sometimes do, I buy another one. I've got 6 pairs of tiels which I don't need, but as they are all bonded pairs, don't have the heart to get rid of them. My inside budgies have lived to 11 years.

[Laraine]

I must admit that I am a collector (much to my husband's dismay). I started with budgies and tiels and now have been buying more upmarket birds: green cheeks, kaks, elegants, scarletts, turks, rosellas, red rumps, lorikeets etc. When a partner dies, which they sometimes do, I buy another one. I've got 6 pairs of tiels which I don't need, but as they are all bonded pairs, don't have the heart to get rid of them. My inside budgies have lived to 11 years.

[finchbreeder]

Captive birds live longer because they do not have the risk of being picked off by preditors. Do not have to compete for food or mates. All in all have an easy life. I keep most of my birds and sell a few occassionally, and of course add to them whenever I can convince hubby to build me another avairy.
LML