Wild Life Sydney Bens View on Sydney Wildlife World

yeh, i know. thats why i dont get on the zoos case for not 'saving' native wildlifeon this forum quite so much , because i know that the state wild life authorities have to propose a captive breeding component as part of the recovery document before they go in, guns blazing and save it. ;)
perhaps it would be nice to see our federal and state wildlife agencies also recognise the skills of our private aviculturalists. off hand, the only case i can think of this happening recently is with the kangaroo island yellow-tailed black cockatoo.
in all other cases, recently the swift parrot, the wildlife agencies sometimes appear to frustrate the recovery process by drafting stuped laws and rules that rule out and handicap private involvement.
look at the frustration felt by tasmanian (or maybe victorian) bird keepers who held and bred swift parrots but were then told it was illegal for them to continue breeding, moving, keeping them. aaaggggggghhhhhhhh
 
I think you mean KI Glossy Black cockatoo and Eyre Peninsula Yellow Tail, adelaide is the only place in teh world that holds a KI Glossy Black, 1 female.

It was tassie keepers that had the swift parrot drama, but they are so easy to get now, same with fig parrots, fig parrots go for about $4500 a pair and swifts about $1500 each
 
wow. i used to have way more birds but i sold them to go to england. ive never really had softbills, in fact at the moment by collection is a piss poor pair of budgies, an rehab crested pigeon,a quail and breeding colony of diamond doves.
i used to have painted, stars, black headed mannakins, jacarinis, gold breasted waxbills. they bred so well i got a flight to london out of them. no, not really, but i used to do well out of them.
would love to obtain pheasants when im older. maybe in the future people like rosemary low will come to my house, just to see my birds ;)
 
and thats the problem essentially. thats how species populations in private hands go from being secure to collapsing, because leglislation is passed, reversed, implemented. consequently, interest in the birds goes up and down like a brides nightie and next thing we know, there are none left in private hands
 
First post by glyn:
lol we can only wish! pity shes a parrot person, i'm more of a finch, softbill person. With the crested pigeon did you need a permit for it, or arent they on permit, they arent on permit here.

Are your Diamond Doves pure?

Second post
Indeed, in South Africa there are so many surplus lories because they arent popular anymore. finches will never be that popular

I;m going to bed now, will answer any mroe q's tomorrow
 
yep, they are pure to wild type. ive bred to third generation now, with no throwbacks to the ugly silver mutation, and im hoping it never surfaces.
i hate mutations!!!
the crested pigeon i dont have a permit for. im not even sure if i need one and if i did, i wouldnt get one. i found it a few months ago up the back in the horse stable, it had been attacked by a falcon. i actually saw it get hit, but it got away from the falcon.
it has a broken wing, which i obviously culdnt fix. i know it sounds mean but i made the decision to see if it could recover and if it did i would just keep it forever.
it has settled in really, really well and is quite tame and in no pain. we live in the country so i often end up with injured wildlife, although no wombats thankfully.
im into permits, but not for this bird. in fact, if there are any lurkers from NPWS reading this, you can have it if you want. its name is Ozzy.
 
couldnt sleep, well if he ever needs a new home he can come live here...
I cant stand the silver mutation of Diamond Doves but it sells well in the shop
 
in the business section of saturdays daily telegraph a report revealed that sydney wildlife world has failed to attract the projected number of visitors and consequently the share price of the sydney attractions group has fallen, as has their forecast profit.
one of the biggest shocks has been the low number of international tourists passing through the gates, although some good news is that aquarium attendance increased slightly.
go taronga
 
in yesterdays daily telegraph fresh reports that Sydney Attractions group is still failing to attract enough visitors and is now urging shareholders to fight off interest from the Warners Entertainment group
 
Perhaps because I went with a group on a tour that I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would, but it still is a place with some promise. Some of the exhibits are very interesting and engaging while others are not as strong.

There were a few things which surprised me about the place.

They're open till 10pm but some sections close at 5pm, which makes the experience less rewarding.

The butterfly house is over two levels, with the second level a concreted area with vents, and not many butterflies.

I didn't really get the aviary, or maybe I wasn't able to experience all of it, but it seems to have been a tiny elevated area right next to the side of the net/cage. The lower level seems to only be experienced from the other side of glass.

There were many blank walls and corridors which really takes away from the overall experience.

I am disappointed that the venue isn't as great as it could have been.
It's an ackward site, but to have a new, specially built venue be lacking in so many ways is disappointing.
That money could have been spent on improving the aquarium, which in fact lost space due to the SWW.

And why SWW in an already overcrowded market?
Yes, it provides for a convenient attraction in the city, but really, for the money you spend going in I would rather spend a day at the zoo, where you still get to see a great heap of Aussie animals.

There's also Featherdale which is on the itinerary for group tours to the Blue Mountains and which still attracts a fair few people.
 
Is Featherdale the park next to the amusement park, i visited that park about 10 years ago, on my way to the blue mountains on a bus tour?
 
If you mean wonderland then no. That closed down and the Australian Wildlife Park (as it was called) closed down with it
 
I visited the SWW back in May, and was impressed with it simply because I went in with low expectations. It doesn't come close to the great zoos of the world, but for a single building there are a number of species packed inside. The biggest question mark for me was the location, as Darling Harbour obviously has the aquarium next door...and then Taronga is just a ferry away. But with over 4 million in Sydney I suppose that the buildings figure that in the long-term they will survive.
 
maybe they wont??? if it continues to lose money or not acheive growth share holders might start singing and dancing.
 
not cost cutting? but given that SWW only holds a very select few managed species and of these some arent even engaged in breeding programs (you cant get many cassowary out of one casowary can you?) i dont think its much of a loss to ARAZPA
 
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