All Aviary bred- I bet!!

[Myzomela]

Just saw these 2 ads for Rainbow lorikeets for $10 & $15 each respectively
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/villawoo ... 1000385209" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/whalan/b ... 1000359677" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I am sure they are all aviary bred- not!

They should lock these scumbags up. They have no place in our hobby!!

NPWS- where are you???????????????????????????

[jusdeb]

Bloody hell and the silly things are so trusting of us and easy to catch ....WHY ? .............$$$ the root of all evil .

Ok another one to send off to the Dept of do nothing ...Copy and pasting as we speak for all the good it will do .

[Tintola]

Villawood????? They must be residents of the detention centre there! I noticed that they are in a cocky cage, nice way to display them! At $10 each these people must be stopped. Good on you Deb and good luck.

[jusdeb]

My faith in the Dept isnt real high at the moment but it costs nothing to send an email ....

[Tiaris]

Just as obvious is an ad on Petlink for the past month or so for Chestnut-breasteds $10 ea & 120 of them available. Gympie area. One of the 2 most declining native finches according to Joe Forshaw.

[Myzomela]

Chestnuts and redbrows are periodically offered for sale in SE QLD at ridiculously low prices and large quantities as Tiaris has mentioned.
You also notice that these same sellers don't have any other finch species for sale, or if they do ther are zebs etc.
Good on you Deb for alerting the Dept. At least then they have no excuses- except that PROVING that they are wild caught is nigh-on impossible unless they catch them in the act.
The fact that they have no nestboxes available and no often no juvenile birds is not enough.
But if they know that someone is on to them then maybe they will think twice before doing it.

I have also seen rainbows for sale at the Sydney Markets for $15-20 each, again in large numbers. If they are that brazen about it then they're not too worried about getting caught are they?

[arthur]

Are we getting a little precious folks

[maz]

I would think if they can't show the authorities the 5-10 adult pairs and the aviaries set up to breed the birds then there would be a pretty good case for them being wild caught.....after all if they are eing bred then you would assume they would have the set up

[finchbreeder]

The first add has already vanished into the eather.
LML

[Tiaris]

Are we getting a little precious folks

I'm not stressed out by it all Arthur, I'm just surprised that they don't even make a slight attempt to be a bit circumspect about it.