Private exotic bird keepers.

[Hyak_II]

So who all here keeps some funky birds? And I'm not talking about your standard pet store birds. We're speaking more along the lines of birds you wouldn't usually see outside of zoo's.

I'll start. I won't put my whole collection out in the open just yet, but I'll start with a picture of one of my Guinea Turaco hens. She's a lovely bird hatched in 2017.

 

[ZooBinh]

So who all here keeps some funky birds? And I'm not talking about your standard pet store birds. We're speaking more along the lines of birds you wouldn't usually see outside of zoo's.

I'll start. I won't put my whole collection out in the open just yet, but I'll start with a picture of one of my Guinea Turaco hens. She's a lovely bird hatched in 2017.

Amazing do you breed them?

 

[Canihelpyou?]

So who all here keeps some funky birds? And I'm not talking about your standard pet store birds. We're speaking more along the lines of birds you wouldn't usually see outside of zoo's.

I'll start. I won't put my whole collection out in the open just yet, but I'll start with a picture of one of my Guinea Turaco hens. She's a lovely bird hatched in 2017.

Beautiful! I wish i had some real exotics. For now i have a illingers macaw and a blue and yellow macaw.

 

[FBBird]

Beautiful! I wish i had some real exotics. For now i have a illingers macaw and a blue and yellow macaw.

Those are pretty exotic.

 

[squirrelmonkey]

I used to work at this pet farm. It wasn't open to the public due to healthy and safety and other guidelines it failed to meet, so it was more like a private collection than a pet farm. She had a large collection of pheasants.
Off the top of my head it included: Golden (Yellow variant also), Lady Amherst's, Silver, Reeve's, Swinhoe's, Crested Fireback, Elliot's, Blue Eared, Himalayan Monal, Cheer and Temminick's Tragopan. There were others but I can't remember their names.
She also had a group of Vulterine Guineafowl, and quite a lot of Java Green Peacocks. I'm not sure which you would count as more birds you would see in a zoo, but I would say the Temminick's Tragopan and the Himalayan Monal were the most exotic.

 

[15399]

I woukd love a turaco and maybe also some peacock peasants but I don't have any birds because my mother is severely allergic to feathers

 

[Hyak_II]

Thanks for the compliments everyone! Unfortuently I am not breeding my turacos right now, I'm been unable to acquire any males as of yet.

Also I would say that an Illigers macaw is fairly exotic as well! I had the opportunity to acquire a breeder quality hen a few months back at a very reasonable price, I ended up passing, but they are quite the stunning looking birds in person!

Also since everyone loves pictures, here is another one of my birds. She's a female Violaceous Turaco, a rather lovely bird, but she's very skittish (she's a wild caught import, so you can't blame her I suppose).

 

[ZooBinh]

You should open a public bird collection!

 

[Great Argus]

I used to work at this pet farm. It wasn't open to the public due to healthy and safety and other guidelines it failed to meet, so it was more like a private collection than a pet farm. She had a large collection of pheasants.
Off the top of my head it included: Golden (Yellow variant also), Lady Amherst's, Silver, Reeve's, Swinhoe's, Crested Fireback, Elliot's, Blue Eared, Himalayan Monal, Cheer and Temminick's Tragopan. There were others but I can't remember their names.
She also had a group of Vulterine Guineafowl, and quite a lot of Java Green Peacocks. I'm not sure which you would count as more birds you would see in a zoo, but I would say the Temminick's Tragopan and the Himalayan Monal were the most exotic.

Almost everything you named is pretty exotic.

 

[Hyak_II]

Haha, and I couldn't think of a more perfect segway into my next post!

So in honour of Great Argus posting, here is a picture of my young pair of great argus as well (although you won't find them posting anything online any time soon )

 

[Hyak_II]

You should open a public bird collection!

I'd love to! One day maybe, it's a goal I'm working towards

 

[Great Argus]

Haha, and I couldn't think of a more perfect segway into my next post!

So in honour of Great Argus posting, here is a picture of my young pair of great argus as well (although you won't find them posting anything online any time soon )

Well played! Nice pic! Would love to have a pair of Great Argus myself someday.

 

[ZooBinh]

How many kinds of birds do you have?

 

[Great Argus]

How many kinds of birds do you have?

Is that question to me or Hyak_II?

 

[ZooBinh]

Is that question to me or Hyak_II?

To Hyak_II, you also keep birds? What do you have, also?

 

[Great Argus]

To Hyak_II, you also keep birds? What do you have, also?

Ah, ok. I couldn't tell who you meant from the first post.

I currently do not keep birds, although when I am able to I intend to keep something or other. I did volunteer at my local facility for several years, and have had hands on experience in caring for hawks, eagles, owls, vultures, caracara, kookaburra, cockatoos, lorikeets, turacos, diving ducks, and corvids. My sister keeps a cockatiel, and other relatives kept ostriches for several years. Look forward to when I have the space and money to get a few birds of my own, I throughly enjoy working with birds.

 

[Hyak_II]

How many kinds of birds do you have?

Currently I have 53 birds, from 18 different species, if I counted everything correctly.

Well played! Nice pic! Would love to have a pair of Great Argus myself someday.

Thank you! They're quite the lovely birds, definitely tied for first place for my favourite pheasant species I've kept. They're reasonably calm, don't "spook" easily, are indifferent to other birds, and very interesting to watch in their actions. Plus they just plain look good

 

[Great Argus]

Currently I have 53 birds, from 18 different species, if I counted everything correctly.

Wow! Guinea and Violaceous Turacos, and Great Argus I've seen in the thread, but what else do you keep? Sounds like you have a very interesting collection!

Thank you! They're quite the lovely birds, definitely tied for first place for my favourite pheasant species I've kept. They're reasonably calm, don't "spook" easily, are indifferent to other birds, and very interesting to watch in their actions. Plus they just plain look good

Curious, what species do they tie with?
Interesting! I'd guessed some of that from the ones I've seen in zoos, always cool to hear the opinion of someone who actually works with the species! And they do look good!

 

[animal_expert01]

@Hyak_II your bird collection sounds amazing! I don’t know if you’d really count it as exotic, but I have a pet galah.

 

[Daniel Sörensen]

Right now I sadly live in an apartment, but I used to live at a farm where I had many different kinds of birds. Not that many would count as rare or exotic I guess, but they are not that common here in Sweden at least. Black swans, mandarin ducks, wood ducks, shelducks, Nanday parakeet, wild muscovy ducks (not the domestic version, well i had both), peafowls and much more.