hi juztiny,

yes, i have 2 pairs, but my first female doesn't macth with these 2 male pekin, now i'm keeping separately cage.

nice collection juz, now your house must be full of bird melody......
but my opinian not to keep canary, coz what i know not all canary sing, some you have to wait till a year or more, than only they will start to sing. not like pekin, they will sing straight away, especially when pekin heard the other pekin sing and they will respond to our magpie robin too.

fear magpie?! do you where's your bf get that magpie?, normally wild caught magpie will be very fear, sometime even will ban the cage untill die.

first, you have to cover up 80% of the cage with a cloth(bird shop selling) for few weeks , at the same time, try to hand feed some crickets to the magpie (twice a day, 3 to 5 each time). for the first few times defenitely it won't eat from your hand, but you have to keep on trying.

after few weeks, try to place your magpie to a public area where noramlly can see the human movement, time to time it will calm down your magpie.( it'll takes few months, be patient)

oh yeah, before i forget, magpie likes to bath daily.

This post has been edited by mann_kl: Oct 13 2008, 12:14 AM

from the picture, it seems like a Pacific Swallow (Hirundo Tahitica).

Pacific Swallows eat insects, catching them during flight. To feast on swarming insects, they may join other birds like Swifts. But unlike Swifts that simply trawl the air with their mouths open, Swallows don't hunt on the wing. They perch and wait, then actually chase after individual prey and perform aerial acrobatics to catch them. Swallows also hunt at lower levels than Swifts.

i think the only food you can feed it is cricket, try to hand feed 3 to 5 crickets twice a day (it might and it might not eat at all). no one keeping swallow coz it won't survive in captivity just like sunbirds.

if it dies after few days, don't feel guilty. at least you have tried your best...

hi ospe,
nice to see you here. how's your diamond doves?

all kind of owl are under "Totally Protected" in Malaysia. no shop selling owl, but if u really want.... try go to some FELDA estate, the villages are breeding them as a hunter to protect their products. good luck.

there lot of bird experts there... sometime they do sell cheap birds too compair to bird shops.

baby hill mynah?? i think it's not the season yet. normally breeding season will be june till august. some shop in klang valley selling hill mynah but most of them are adults. price is arround rm400 n above. and it is under protected species.

wow..... there cost you quite a lot tho....heheeh

nice collections bro...

toda, very nice pictures, those are Yellow Vented Bulbul's eggs.

hi juztiny, no wonder so long never hear from you... btw how are you??
so u really give up on birds??? where are the rest????

actually i'm still learning about our Asian Birds, sometime i even can reconized some common song birds by their sound and i do keep quite number of song birds at home too.
Yellow Vented Bulbul aka Merbah Kapur like to build their nest arround 3 feet to 6 feet high plants, they usually don't build on the high tree. 2 to 3 eggs will lays but 2 only will hatched. if 3 hatched, they will kill the weakest one left only 2 to survive.
and these are some of their pictures..

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Added on June 2, 2009, 6:49 pm ... sad to hear that sis. why u never let me know that u sell off all your song birds??? i know some escaped due to your maid but howabout pekin robin, golden fronted leafbird, snow white canary and your magpie robin ....???

This post has been edited by mann_kl: Jun 2 2009, 06:49 PM

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i think your maid has heaty hand la.... (tangan panas).. poor fellas.....

yeah, kind of... each specie has their own diet... hehhee

i think not much people like birds.... but i do.

so tamed...
they must be keep from baby untill now.

i'm afraid that u've just bought a " serindik" wich is protected bird. it need license to keep it.

the lisence has been frozen. that shop is selling illegally too. serindit can't be trade unless the shop has a special permit.
in Malaysia, protected birds are not allow to trap nor been keep and trade (unlees with special permit or license). u can try to lie to that shop keeper saying that your senrindit has been confiscated and told the Pegawai Perhilitan that you bought the bird from that bird shop. i am very sure the shop keeper will pening kepala... then u'll he lies to you just wanna make profit from you.
ask me about wild life act 74/76, i know better. thanks.

budgie is quite softy compare to dove (hardy). dove will swallow whole millet but not budgie will leaves millet skin. one thing good in budgie, they are active n noisy.

i do breed cockatiel. tamed rm200 per bird.