Ringing birds is something I’ve never done but with my recent successes and multiple nests threatening to cause confusion I investigated the ringing process to help identify my birds.  As I only have a small number of birds I didn’t think that it was necessary to go to the expense of having closed , numbered [...]

I have had a deal of breeding success lately in my aviaries last month  and the information may be valuable for people other than me.  Before I get onto that I will just go over my set-up and feeding regime.  I have two aviaries with mixed collections. I have dry seed available in hoppers (canary, [...]

Well for those that read this blogg, you can see we’re plagued by spamming pests but for keepers of birds, or any animal for that matter, there is another more serious pest which is threatens our very right to own and keep animals and that is the so called Animal Rights Movement.  Simply pick up [...]

I hope Finchme readers had a great Christmas and everyone has a happy New Year.  A very special wish goes to Amelita Escalona who had to endure a dreadful year, health wise, in 2008 and I’m sure you’ll join me in  wishing her a speedy recovery and all the best in 2009.  Some of you who may be members of [...]

Fostering is the deliberate introduction of chicks or eggs into another birds nest.  There are many reasons for fostering and as was related in part one of this post, aviary birds occasionally and probably mistakenly do it to  when they attempt to take over an existing nest. Fostering is most commonly done to as a way to increase [...]

It seems that in spite of my dislike of interspecific fostering that my birds have been doing it without without consulting me! Last year I purchased a pair of star finches which produced four consecutive clutches; they faithfully incubated and then let the babies starve to death within 1-2 days of hatching. I suspect that they [...]

In my previous post I said that I didn’t have an aesthetic appreciation of bird-song but it’s not that I don’t appreciate what song does for our birds it’s just that I prefer the quieter ones. In this post I’ve pulled some recent news releases together which highlight some of the more interesting aspects of [...]

 Who amongst bird keepers hasn’t at some time seen a bird and been overcome by the desire to own it? Since I only have a very narrow range of avian interest (finches) I don’t get tempted too often by what’s on sale at Cartimar but in early September I noticed a pair of Linnets for sale and although [...]

Well Finchme has been experiencing a few problems over the last few weeks which I now hope are behind us.  Problems seem to have turned readers off as much as it has turned writers off doing any posts.  Now that the site is working again I’d recommend that readers contact any previous users that you know and make them [...]

I visited Avilon Zoo in the last week of  September 2008 having read about it’s collection from the DENR list of birds I discovered while researching my Where are all the finches post. I accompanied a visiting Belgian aviculturist whose main interest is pigeons (native and other species types).   While there we met the Curator of birds, Mr Jiame [...]