I feel stoopid!

[luccas]

Hay all,
Just wondering if there is an Alexandriane site like this IRN one. I feel stoopid coming on here and blabbering about my Alex when everyone else owns IRN's i know we are cousins aha but i was wondering if there were any Alex links you guys knew of or some Alex info you could throw my way. Much appreciate. Luccas from Sydney

[selma]

try www.fluffies.org
they have different sections for the various species.

[Neokireina]

Alexes are just big ringnecks like ringnecks are big budiges

[Dani03]

Alexes might as well be really big Indians...They are in the same familiy. You can stay! There are some here who do own both and you can still benefit from any knowledge gained from here. We welcome anyone who owns birds...not just IRNs. Take a seat and join in on the fun...

Dani and Prinny

[Mikaela]

I second that!

*drags you out a chair* Ok, I'll start off the meeting.

Hi, Im Mikaela and Im a birdaholic. I really dont know how I found myself in this situation. They didnt tell me how addictive it could be! I was just trying to fit in

[Dani03]

*stands* Hi my name is Dani and I am a birdaholic. I've owned three budgies and two breeding tiels (which produced a LOT of babies)...and of course the light of my life Prinny. I didn't know that these guys would take over as much as she has. Wow I am sure she eats better than I do

Anyway as I said any bird lover is welcome here. Tiels, Budgies, IRNs, Alexes...Any type! please lend us your knowledge and we'll give you ours.

Dani and Prinny

[Mazziemom]

I have an Alexandrine too ... along with my IRN's.

And though they look like big IRN's.. you know from living with one that they don't always act like them. I don't think my IRN's have gone through as many toys as my Alexandrine has in their lives, and she's only 10 months old!



Athena

[Neokireina]

Ok I got my Comfy chair. My name is Karen and I'm a birdaholic. I have 3 sun conures, 2 indian ringnecks, 5 cockatiels, 1 red rump and two step-ringnecks belonging to another sadly addicted ringneck lover friend of mine. I also have 4 eggs on the floor that may become cockatiels, and lets see 10 Indian Rignecks at my mums house in aviaries that wont breed dammit. I run the adelaide bird club website and take lots of pictures, make bird toys and spoil my babies to bitses. I dont know how much more addicted you can get. Then again I'll let you know in 20 years when I own a house modified to accomodate macaws and cockatoos and rescue organisation or something insane like that.

[Mazziemom]

I'm more addicted... I have the house and the rescue

Its a labor of love, an addiction to work, and my best and worst times all rolled into one

Athena

[Neokireina]

I'd love to rehab raptors.

Not much call for domestic parrot rescue here. Breeders are more than happy to take any unwanted birds and there doesnt seem to be that many in aus.

[Melika]

I'd love to rehab raptors.

Not much call for domestic parrot rescue here. Breeders are more than happy to take any unwanted birds and there doesnt seem to be that many in aus.

That's because a too flying free isn't uncommon, lol. Toos, tiels, and budgies in Aus can easily survive by joining the flocks.

[ringybaby]

OK - I admit it then, just because you all have...LOL

I have 16 breeding teils, 2 prs IRN's, my baby Squeak, Will (Pet Teil), Rocky the Mad Cocky (sulphur crested cockatoo) & 5 baby teils that have already found new homes to be loved at. Plus I have 5 baby teils that I am raising at the moment.

My late Mum used to be the Chairperson of WIRES (Wildlife Information & Rescue Service) here in NSW Australia. She used to be the Head Raptor Person & I have raised Wedge-Tail Eagles, Sea Eagles & too many other Raptors to mention, Owls, Falcons, Kestrels etc, etc, etc. I have a picture of Mum on the wall with a Masked Owl that was front page in the local paper here. I wish my Mum was still here, not only for her love & motherhood, but for her knowledge aswell. She was one hell of a person & no bird ever left Mum's place without feeling loved.

[Mikaela]

Ringbaby:

My mom and I never knew eachother until recently. My Granny raised me. I extended the offer for her to come to see me and her grand children and she actually accepted. As she is much older now, she cant maintain the lifestyle she did when she was young.

I cant say I know what a Mother's love is like but I can say that I am very glad I took the steps to reach out to her. She came. It was nice. We are friends and that is good enough for me. Much better than being nothing to her.

My Dad? If anyone finds him, let me know.

I was better off with Granny and she and Paw Paw gave me plenty of hugs and kisses. Sucky thing about being raised by grandparents though is when they die and your 14, youre on your own OR foster care. I chose to be on my own... emancipated.

[Neokireina]

I'd love to rehab raptors.

Not much call for domestic parrot rescue here. Breeders are more than happy to take any unwanted birds and there doesnt seem to be that many in aus.

That's because a too flying free isn't uncommon, lol. Toos, tiels, and budgies in Aus can easily survive by joining the flocks.

Cockatiels are native to australia and they dont really stand a chance in the wild here as the photo shows in another thread here. They just dont know how to survive.

[Melika]

I'd love to rehab raptors.

Not much call for domestic parrot rescue here. Breeders are more than happy to take any unwanted birds and there doesnt seem to be that many in aus.

That's because a too flying free isn't uncommon, lol. Toos, tiels, and budgies in Aus can easily survive by joining the flocks.

Cockatiels are native to australia and they dont really stand a chance in the wild here as the photo shows in another thread here. They just dont know how to survive.

I thought you said you were in Aus.?

[Neokireina]

I am from australia. Let me clarify. Tame cockatiels cant survive in the wild even in their native country. I noticed the escaped cockatiel call and call and fly around confused. This attracted the hawk. Others would just starve. There are no wild cockatiel flocks or even budgie flocks anywhere near the cities.

The wild birds we see here are (import pest category) Spotted Turtle Doves, Sparrows, Starlings, Pigeons. Native Rainbow and Musk lorikeets, Rosellas Various honeyeaters, Crows, Magpies, Magpie Larks, Noisy Miners and most others are small insect eaters. Very Few parrots. Though where I live near the RAAF base because it's got a fair bit of tall trees and empty fields there are alot of Sulpher Crested Cockatoos, Galahs and Corellas.

Those are the most common in the suburbs.

[Melika]

Okay. ^^

So you're in the city.

Frankly, wild birds die everywhere for one reason or another.


But I know 'tiels are only really likely to survive in flocks, and being as they aren't near you then no a release wouldn't go well where you live.

However, if you went to the boonies to release a 'tiel it may join with a flock and live wild. They learn quickly.

That's how we got our wild flocks of quakers and nandays in our state. And the escaped pets just join up with them.

[Neokireina]

I wonder if there are any flocks of those here?