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Thank you for posting your backstory and connection to the bird farm! This is an impressive list of birds and it must have been an amazing sight to have seen some of these species! I love this piece of avicultural history!

@Summer Tanager This 'farm' was the hobby of a man who owned a brewery. The birds were imported from many different countries, legally at that time. Over the years that I worked there we kept a huge number of species. There was a main bird house, mainly seed-eaters, as well as several other buildings, a waterfowl pond and many outdoor aviaries. You will probably notice the difference in several common names, to that of today. EG leafbirds were known as fruit-suckers and green magpies as hunting cissas. Bird-keeping was very different then, and there were many species that no-one really knew how to care for. Knowledge of care was not easily gained, as most bird-keepers kept their own secrets and rarely shared. Personal experience was only gained over time.

@Terry Thomas Thank you for posting more of the story! And I appreciate your insights into bird keeping! I'm sure that those were wild times and the keeping of softbills was in its infancy. The names of several of the Australian parakeets/parrots has changed since then - I've heard all of those names but I can't connect the previous common name with the current name for most of those (but I think that Adalaide Parakeets are now known as one of the subspecies of Crimson Rosellas). I had no idea that Leafbirds used to be called Fruit-suckers, but as recently as the early 1990s I've seen Green Magpies in U.S. zoos referred to as Green Hunting Cissas. This bird list is an interesting historic document for aviculture and I appreciate you posting the photos!