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Post by merian on Dec 3, 2010 21:39:14 GMT 10
just wondering when the best time to release a young lorikeet to the wild - mine is 6 weeks at the moment and alone. How should i be treating a young lorikeet that i am planning to release? I have been quite hands on with it this far, is it too late to wild release it?
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Post by jusdeb on Dec 3, 2010 22:47:07 GMT 10
Did you breed this bird ? Please do not release it , if it has been human imprinted how will it know how to eat in the wild or find a roost or even how to hide from predators .
The bird wont survive in the wild at this age and with no education from its parents .
If you dont want it hand it over to wires or give it away to someone that can give it a good home .
Where are you located ? For heavens sake do not release this bird .
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Post by choco on Dec 4, 2010 0:07:04 GMT 10
i agree with "jusdeb" 100%, if you don't want it put an advert on here to sell/give away.
there is bound to be someone near you who will give it a home.
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Post by merian on Dec 4, 2010 16:46:13 GMT 10
hahahaha don't give yourself a haemorrhage, i don't mean release it NOW i mean would it be safe to release it once it's matured, or has the handling i have done up to this point made it too domesticated to release? I have other birds, 2 alexandrines, a cockatiel and a golden pheasant so keeping the lorikeet is no issue, it's a beautiful bird and i'd be sad to release it but it was wild born and re-releasing it seems ethical - it was dropped in as a 3 wk old at the vet then handed off to me after a check up - i'm fine with raising chicks and keeping domesticated birds i just don't know whether i should keep or release this one considering it's alone and it has been handled a lot up until this point, the only birds i've raised to be released were a pair of crimson rosellas but there were two of them and we had a human-friendly but essentially wild rosella population for them to gradually assimilate with...
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Post by jusdeb on Dec 4, 2010 19:48:30 GMT 10
anyone with any compassion for wildlife would have a haemorrhage after reading your post ....
it is way too humanised to be released .... the only people that should be releasing birds are wildlife experts that have rehabilitated the birds to survive in the wild.
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Post by vankarhi on Dec 4, 2010 20:23:56 GMT 10
In my opinion and I am by no means an expert......I would suggest it is too human imprinted and too young for release yet anyway (which you did say ;D ) ........ so I reckon he or she would make an excellent pet. But if you choose to release it........maybe take it to a wildlife carer who will know how to rehabilitate it......if it can be rehabilitated.
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Post by Laraine on Dec 5, 2010 8:41:39 GMT 10
I agree with everyone, after a bird has been human raised from 3 weeks old, it will have no idea what to do in the wild. The parents would have taught it how to find food etc. I don't know where you are located but I have been looking for a companion to keep my lonely Rainbow company.
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Post by urgeoverkill on Feb 12, 2011 6:47:24 GMT 10
I agree with everyone. Although I have dreamed of having a flock of budgies around my house for years I would never do that to the birds nor the local ecology.
I did however once have a flock of Zebra and Hecks finches escape from my aviary many years ago. They were about 20 pairs of Zebs and a couple of pair of Hecks finches. They were flying around my house for about a month hiding in the large Meleleuka trees we had in our backyard. I provided plenty of seed and water for them (as well as the local Sparrows). I finally managed to trap them, but it was an impressive sight.
But I wouldn't suggest intentionally releasing a handled bird into the wild!
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Post by twr on Feb 25, 2011 23:27:56 GMT 10
I agree. I know that you have the best intentions, but please don't release this bird. Even when it is mature, it has not been parent taught the skills it needs for survival. If you really want to release it, hand it over to Wires. There would need to be retraining for it to learn survival skills, with a staged release & at least in pairs. I don't believe anyone would recommend releasing a solitary bird that was human raised from 3 weeks.
Best to keep it or find it a good home.
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Post by totemando on Dec 26, 2013 17:28:01 GMT 10
I don't agree in the most part with a few of the posters. For starters if a bird was taken in from the wild, then it is by law after raising to a healthy standard that it must be re released back into the wild, I have had this confirmed from the Australian wildlife authorities. A second thing is that it is a Rainbow Lorikeets natural instinct to go to flowering shrubs and trees to gather nectar and pollen for food, wether they are reared in captivity and held in a cage for 10 years or just fallen out of a nest and regained strength enough to return to the wild after a short stay in captivity. You can take flowering gums into an aviary of captive bred Rainbow Lorikeets, and immediately they know to feed on the nectar and pollen from the flowers. They don't need any degrees or different bringing up lifestyles to let them know how to feed on native plants, so bogus is the theory to say they need lessons from their parents. Another thing, with the abbundance of Rainbows in the wild it would not be long before a young re released wild bird would take up with other compannion lorikeets and find his way around in no time. just my 2 cents worth. Cheers.
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