Introducing myself to the member community

[johno53]

Hi everybody

My name is John and I live in Victoria, Australia. I haven't had birds for a number of years now, but absolutely love them and am in process of building a 10 meter long x up to 2 meter wide x 2.4 meter aviary encompassing an established garden with various plants, bushes and ferns.

Once built I plan to include some parrots (Australian natives Scarlet Wings, Crimson Rosella's, and Boukes. I also plan to put in several species of finches - gouldians, blue headed cordon bleu's, tri-colour-red -sea green-red headed parrot finch, diamond firetails, and ruddies.

I also plan to get a Hyacinth Macaw but as a pet rather than aviary bird, and raised a post last night to see if any of the members have heard of or dealt with a breeder/supplier in Cameroon - trying to establish if they are real-deal or scammers - Edificio-Famiglia Aviary at EDIFICIO-FAMIGLIA AVIARY

BTW I feel privileged to be part of this Parrot forum

Thanks
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John

 

[Kentuckienne]

Hi everybody

My name is John and I live in Victoria, Australia. I haven't had birds for a number of years now, but absolutely love them and am in process of building a 10 meter long x up to 2 meter wide x 2.4 meter aviary encompassing an established garden with various plants, bushes and ferns.

Once built I plan to include some parrots (Australian natives Scarlet Wings, Crimson Rosella's, and Boukes. I also plan to put in several species of finches - gouldians, blue headed cordon bleu's, tri-colour-red -sea green-red headed parrot finch, diamond firetails, and ruddies.

I also plan to get a Hyacinth Macaw but as a pet rather than aviary bird, and raised a post last night to see if any of the members have heard of or dealt with a breeder/supplier in Cameroon - trying to establish if they are real-deal or scammers - Edificio-Famiglia Aviary at EDIFICIO-FAMIGLIA AVIARY

BTW I feel privileged to be part of this Parrot forum

Thanks
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John

As others have suggested, the breeder you link is a scam. If you right click on the photo of the guy holding the hy, labeled by their website as one of their birds, and choose "reverse google image search" you will find that exact photo on two other websites: one claims to have the bird, one says they sold the bird in 2004. So obviously they just searched Google for photos of birds, chicks and facilities and then created a fake website. If you persist in contacting them, there will be fees, application fees, down payments, emergency medical experiences, shipping costs, customs fees, and other problems. As long as you pay something, there will be another reasonable sounding request. Once you stop paying, they will stop contacting you.

This one tip will give you most of the information you need to figure out if a site is reputable, legitimate, or not. Scam artists are very resourceful - if there is anything valuable bought and sold, there is a fraudulent seller out to cheat. Even matchmaking sites are full of scammers who pretend to be good people, who court, convince, and scam lonely single people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A large macaw such as a hy is expensive and rare. A bird like that will live a long time, so it would be good to find a local breeder - at least on your same continent! - who you can research, visit, get to know, see how they handle their birds, speak to customers, and so on. An unethical breeder might wean birds too soon, breed unfit birds, not feed properly or not provide medical care and then you would have a bird with problems.

Sometimes these lovely birds show up in rescues for adoption and the rescue agencies will be very, very particular about who they let adopt because so many unethical persons want to get these birds to breed.

So welcome, good luck, your aviary sounds like a great project, hope you can keep all the redbacks out ha ha, and stay away from the Camaroon cartel!

 

[Flboy]

As others have suggested, the breeder you link is a scam. If you right click on the photo of the guy holding the hy, labeled by their website as one of their birds, and choose "reverse google image search" you will find that exact photo on two other websites: one claims to have the bird, one says they sold the bird in 2004.

You made this looks so too easy! I was feeling so proud when I tracked this guy down to his old site, his domain is actually registered in Australia through Yahoo! Yahoo won't do anything!

I guess it is kinda hard to right click on an iPad!

 

[GaleriaGila]

I welcome you.
This is a great place for information, advice, and INTELL!
I trust the 'regulars' here completely.

 

[Terry57]

Hello and welcome to the forum! I'm so happy you joined us

 

[Rival_of_the_Rickeybird]

Welcome to the best parrot place on the web.

 

[Kentuckienne]

As others have suggested, the breeder you link is a scam. If you right click on the photo of the guy holding the hy, labeled by their website as one of their birds, and choose "reverse google image search" you will find that exact photo on two other websites: one claims to have the bird, one says they sold the bird in 2004.

You made this looks so too easy! I was feeling so proud when I tracked this guy down to his old site, his domain is actually registered in Australia through Yahoo! Yahoo won't do anything!

I guess it is kinda hard to right click on an iPad!

I think there might be a way to configure an iPad for right-click....but I just tap and hold on the image, and up pops a dialog box which has "Search Google for this image" as the bottom option under save image, open in new tab, etc. I loves me some shortcuts.

 

[Timmah]

Welcome from another Victorian, John!! I recently (a week ago) got my Quaker from a breeder here in Victoria who has some scarlet and Blue and gold Macaws at the minute, they may be worth checking for Hyacinths too

 

[plumsmum2005]

Hi welcome, some brilliant info been given, certainly need your wits about you!

There are plenty of birds that have been given up for one reason or another would you consider re-homing one instead of going for a baby? You obviously feel you can cope with a large bird and have bird experience, please give some thought to giving a Mac a good, forever home?