Aussie Finch Forum

Netsurfer wrote:

finches247 wrote:Congratulations !!! Great Work

Thanks finches247, what I wouldn't do for a pair of Stephens Island Wrens! Just kidding!

Netsurfer They would be incredibly hard to get as its illegal to keep and breed all native softbills species in New Zealand.You can only keep silvereyes and a few foriegn softbills.We will have to leave that one as a dream to keep.But instead I have the baby Red Polls and Yellow Hammers colouring up at moment.and can trap in my finch trap about 10 Yellow Hammers a day never trapped a Redpoll as there not local there further south but got plenty of Red Poll in my largest aviary.

finches247 wrote:

Netsurfer wrote:

finches247 wrote:Congratulations !!! Great Work

Thanks finches247, what I wouldn't do for a pair of Stephens Island Wrens! Just kidding!

Netsurfer They would be incredibly hard to get as its illegal to keep and breed all native softbills species in New Zealand.You can only keep silvereyes and a few foriegn softbills.We will have to leave that one as a dream to keep.But instead I have the baby Red Polls and Yellow Hammers colouring up at moment.and can trap in my finch trap about 10 Yellow Hammers a day never trapped a Redpoll as there not local there further south but got plenty of Red Poll in my largest aviary.

That was a joke I was hoping someone had read the shocking story about the disappearance of "Stephens Island Wren" one family and their cat had caused in 1900. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Island_Wren
But there is another specie on South Island the "New Zealand Rockwren" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Island_Wren
The other still in existance is the New Zealand "Bushwren" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwren

Great to hear about the Redpolls and the Yellow Hammers I am still hoping to find a pair here.

vettepilot_6 wrote:Very informative Netsurfer....great problem solving too ....Would love to get some when large aviary is finished

You are in Childers that's in Queensland, WWW are licensed birds I think they are illegal to keep in Queensland but I may be mistaking them with the Red-backed Wrens. Anyhow if they're OK to keep, let me know whenever you're ready!

WWW are ok in Qld, Red-backed are illegal Go figure that out.

Beauty they are going on my to get list, along with Crimsons, Diamond Firetails..Not sure what Weaver to get yet..

Netsurfer those wrens are fantastic and I love your website too with its warts'n'all avicultural learning experiences. I hope you found mates for those birds.

If you end with any spare hens please keep me in mind as I have a lonely cockbird sitting here.

Danny

Danny wrote:If you end with any spare hens please keep me in mind as I have a lonely cockbird sitting here.

Danny

Can't work them out, the original hen I got of Gary produced mostly cocks and this new hen the last season produced 7 hens 2 cocks.

The first lot are doing just fine. She's on her second clutch already, will see what comes out this time around.

Nice Pics and Fledglings

And here are two 14 day old WWW and a little younger (hatched on the 1 of Dec) Red-backed Fairy Wrens banded today, they're hard to photograph, next time I'll put them all in a large glass jar hopefully they will be willing to pose for a photo or two!