Aussie Finch Forum

Hello all,

Apparently owning foreign birds in Australia is pretty hard and there is a dwindling supply of wild birds and so I was wondering what the people such as yourselves and the government does to solve this problem? I did see in some videos that permaculture was embraced by the government even awarding a man named Geoff Lawton an award?

Does anyone here implement permaculture or some sort of land conservation, even some backyard organic gardening where it's wildlife friendly?

Please share your experiences if you have any or any ideas you wish you could implement.

What's that got to do with finches?

Tiaris wrote:What's that got to do with finches?

I was thinking the same thing but thought maybe I was missing something

I'm not saying anything it might be off topic garyh

TailFeathers wrote:Hello all,

Apparently owning foreign birds in Australia is pretty hard and there is a dwindling supply of wild birds.

Is it just me or did you just contradict yourself TailFeathers....the reason why they are called foreign birds is because they do not occur as wild birds in Australia

Okay, I have had enough of TF.

No reply to my request for ID or background in another post.

Fellow forumites, I am seeing this forum which gives us so much joy and information when we have concern about the health and well being of our birds, we enjoy each others successes and feel for each others losses, turning into a platform of absolute crap because of the inane, vitriolic and absolute drivel spoken/posted by TF. Who ever this person is does not deserve acknowledgement. Just don't bother replying.

Go away TF, go back to the other forums you purport to be on, bother them, not us.

Ken.

matcho wrote:Okay, I have had enough of TF.

No reply to my request for ID or background in another post.

Fellow forumites, I am seeing this forum which gives us so much joy and information when we have concern about the health and well being of our birds, we enjoy each others successes and feel for each others losses, turning into a platform of absolute crap because of the inane, vitriolic and absolute drivel spoken/posted by TF. Who ever this person is does not deserve acknowledgement. Just don't bother replying.

Go away TF, go back to the other forums you purport to be on, bother them, not us.

Ken.

Ken... The topic was locked previously.

Someone mentioned that wild bird populations in Australia are dwindling because people have been trapping them for aviculture. I posted a topic under the finch lounge, where such posts are allowed to see what people do themselves to help both their native bird population and birds into General.

For example, I plant many varities of sunflower seed, herb mixes, wild flowers and seed plants that have attracted toads, a variety of insects and the American goldfinch which is hard to see here in Michigan.

It's winter time here, but as you can see there are remnants of wild grasses that the bird outside cleaned really nice. The only plant they don't eat is pigweed. Other than that everything was basically consumed.

Tiaris wrote:What's that got to do with finches?

Finch Lounge
This is the spot for you to post anything and everything.
Have a good look at our other available forums before posting.
This will ensure that you post in the appropriate forum.

I don't need patronising instruction from you thanks. Finch lounge means anything & everything finch-related which doesn't have an obvious other category. This is a finch forum.
In your earlier response to Ken you said someone mentioned in another post that Australia's wild bird stocks are declining due to trapping. What was actually said was that the Red Siskin (a South American species) had seriously declined due to trapping. Australia's wild bird stocks are not recently subjected to any large-scale trapping. It is illegal to do so here with any native species & most people respect that. There is some commercial trapping of feral exotic species (mostly Goldfinches & Greenfinches). This is legal as they are not protected native species in Australia.