Worlds Smallest Homing Birds

[vettepilot_6]

Have seen Ruddies do this in the UK...Wonder if we can train our Finches to do this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLtI8hA ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[desertbirds]

Have seen Ruddies do this in the UK...Wonder if we can train our Finches to do this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLtI8hA ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think if a yank trained our finches to do that im sure we can.

[toothlessjaws]

i have heard of ruddies doing this in the UK, and my ex girlfriends father did this with societies. i might give it a go.

[Lukec]

Hahahaa i have heard of free ranging crimsons, apparently happened due to a hole in the aviary and the owner found them coming and going and couldnt work out where the hole was. This went on for a couple of weeks until the hole was located. Probable stayed due to young in the nest.

[Myzomela]

Vettepilot,

I reckon that if you were an African or Australian finch that had escaped into the wild in the UK, that you'd make a bee-line for an aviary at every opportunity!!
They're probably fighting to get back in- not to get out

[SamDavis]

I reckon they'd be gobbled up by the local butcher birds around my place quick smart. Many years ago when living in the blue mountains a big ironbark knocked over one of my aviaries and most escaped. Every butcher bird for miles around descended on the place. I sadly recall butcher birds sitting in the neighbouring trees calmly eating my gouldians, parsons and zebs.

[jusdeb]

Fella at Burraway showing us his aviaries and I notice D/Bars and Zebs going in and out of Indian Ringneck enclosure . Apparantly been going on for years and the finches even roost at night with the larger parrots , doing what they want outside by day .

[SamDavis]

We've got heaps of double bars around here too. They're always getting into our barn. The wild ones seem to have a sixth sense for danger (and can really move when they need to). Seems the captive finches are less aware and just too slow, hence no match for a pack of butcher birds.

[Nrg800]

Fella at Burraway showing us his aviaries and I notice D/Bars and Zebs going in and out of Indian Ringneck enclosure . Apparantly been going on for years and the finches even roost at night with the larger parrots , doing what they want outside by day .

I remember at the Caravan Park in Katoomba they have this cage for a cockatoo, that speaks to you and everything. The had cut a little hole in the bottom left that the cockatoo couldn't get out of, but the Local Rosellas could get in and out of, and there were quite regularly rosellas getting a free meal.