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sebbe67

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Hello,

My name is Sebastian, aim a Swede but has lived most of my live abroad (Borneo, Brazil, Australia) and is currently living in south-eastern Myanmar (and has done so for the past year or so).

Aim a true zoo enthuiast and I have been working with pheasants at Jurong birdpark and Brown-antlered deer at Rangoon zoo in this last year. At the moment aim working with nature conservation mainly but also run a small private zoo here in the far south of Myanmar. Mainly to educate children as well as local farmers. But of course becuase I also enjoy it.

Here is a few species aim keeping at the moment;

Brown Fish Owl
Brahminy Kite
Bornean Argus
Indian peafowl
Crested fireback
Reeves Pheasant
Silver pheasant (2-3 different subspecies)
Bulwer Pheasant (only a single male sadly)
Lesser Adjutant (hope to soon have a small breeding colony)
Great hornill
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Wrinkled Hornbill
Wreathed Hornbill
White-Crowned Hornbill
Oriental Pied Hornbill
Red bird of Paradise
Lesser bird of Paradise
Raggina bird of Paradise
Cassowary (2 species)
A dozen different parrots
A half dozen waterbirds (bar-headed goose and Black swan for ex)
A large number of passerines

I used to keept over 30 different species of reptiles but aim phasing these out now, I have already get rid of almost all my frogs as well. Plans is to expand my bird collection as well as start keeping a few mammals (mostly local species).

I also export quite a lot of birds and recently send away a shipment of over 60 blue-crowned Haning-parrots for a breeding program in Thailand. I have plans to export captive breed hornbills to the USA for breeding purpose as well but I will have to wait and see how thats works out.

Most of my birds comes from either zoos in Thailand or bought at market in Rangoon or other larger cities.


Sure I will have a good time here

Sebbe
 
OH MY GOD!!! I love all those species!!!Could you upload lots of pictures of them.

Please stay on the forum and enjoy your time here.

Any taricitc or writhed hornbills coming to you private zoo in the near future?

Do you have any difficulty operating your zoo at the moment, considering the circumstances at present?
 
Writhedhornbill said:
OH MY GOD!!! I love all those species!!!Could you upload lots of pictures of them.

Please stay on the forum and enjoy your time here.

Any taricitc or writhed hornbills coming to you private zoo in the near future?

Do you have any difficulty operating your zoo at the moment, considering the circumstances at present?
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Hello Writhedhornbill,

Nopp, not any tarictic on its way in at the moment (or in the near-future) becuase they are very difficult to lay your hands on and those few for sale fetch high prices, aim looking into getting all Asian hornbills and writhed is a species aim very intrested in, looking into buying two pairs from a breeder in Thailand, going over there on monday and hope to be able to buy them, as well as a pair of Rufous hornbill, five immature Green Magpies and a male pheasant pigeon.

I suppose you mean the conflict in Myanmar, well I live in the far south of the country and most demenstrations and killings happended in places such as Rangoon, I wasent affected personally but you sure noticed it as people talked about it very much and alot of people fled into Thailand. Problem is that several gerilla groups is operating in the area were I live and they are not keen on having foreign people around. Alot of my co-workers left about a week ago and havent come back yet.

Thanks four your welcome everyone.
 
kiang said:
where did u get your cassowaries and birds of paradise from?
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Hello kiang,

My adult male cassowary I bought at a meat market in Rangoon about three months ago, a very friendly bird and has not even tried to attack me so far, he is quite special:). My immature (still not known species but probably northern) was also bought at a meat market here in Myanmar, occasionally imported from China for its meat.

My Red (a pair) and Raggina Lesser Bird of Paradise (a pair) is bought from Manjet Singh who is a private breeder in Khuala Lumpur while my Lesser (a single male) comes from Jurong
 
a wonderful collection m8, but can i ask you the animals you buy from the markets are they legally there or have they been illegally trapped, i realise you are probably saving them from a worse fate, good luck to you.
 
Hi Seb, Welcome, ALL those Hornbills I think you may of made Jo,s (Mr Hornbill) day he really likes them as do I, hope to see a few photos if you have the time.
 
kiang said:
a wonderful collection m8, but can i ask you the animals you buy from the markets are they legally there or have they been illegally trapped, i realise you are probably saving them from a worse fate, good luck to you.
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Hi Kiang,

I try not to buy protected species or birds I know have been captured in the wild, the cassowaries are both breed in captivity and are not protected and as they probably had been sold to anyone else for food, I guess they have it better with me:p luckily these kind of species is very rare I have not seen any others except my two birds. I once bought a male Gurney Pitta on the North-west Thai-Myanmar border, plans were to bring it to Rangoon zoo but sadly it died, that one had certinely been caught in the wild. If I see extraordinary species at markets I usual buys them, most of them end up in Rangoon zoo. But I do this only very, very rarely. I try not to buy illegal trapped birds as the sellers benefit from this and goes out and try recapture the same species later on.

I bought two red-headed vulture chicks (collected illegally from the wild) only two weeks ago and these are now being raised at Rangoon zoo. This vulture is so rare in Myanmar (basically extinct in the whole region now) that the sellers are highly unlikely to be able to lay their hands on others.

I try to buy most of my birds from Thailand, Malaysia or Singapore and then I only buy from well known and reccomended people which breeds the birds themself or get birds from zoos or other institutions.

Thanks
sebbe
 
Hi sebbe,

Congratulations on your own private zoo! I suppose you are 'living the dream' that many of us here must share. I'm glad you are using your collection in a positive way to educate the children and farmers, and to supply animals for captive breeding programmes. I hope the situation in Burma doesn't get nasty and threaten the safety of you or your animals...
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Guerney's pitta!!

Please upload images of him! They are special little birds.
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Sorry but I dont have any photos of the Pitta, I found it in a very remote area in north-eastern Myanmar (outside the range of this species), I died on its way to Rangoon as it was in poor shape when I got it. It turned in the dead bird to Rangoon zoo but I dont know if they just thow it away or donated it to some museum.
 
Chris79 said:
Hi sebbe,

Congratulations on your own private zoo! I suppose you are 'living the dream' that many of us here must share. I'm glad you are using your collection in a positive way to educate the children and farmers, and to supply animals for captive breeding programmes. I hope the situation in Burma doesn't get nasty and threaten the safety of you or your animals...
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Hello Chris,

Thank you very much! yes one of the reasons for starting my zoo was to educate local people here, lack in respect for animal and nature is sadly very common here. At least I have 11 schools now that come here at least 1 day a week and my employes (which I have educated myself) keep a few lessons each day. There is a increasing intrest from local farmers as well. This last month they have turned in 4 former pet parrots and 2 injured animals to me. My neighbhour which is a farmer has stopped planting palm trees at two of his fields (2 out of 5), the nature is slowly starting to take back lost grounds.

At the moment I send Blue-crowned Haning-parrots, Sulphur cockatoo, Myanmar cobra and Mountain Bambbo partoridge to different breeding projects elsehwere in south-east Asia, it feels really good to help programed aimed at breed rare species.

I hope to start sending Lesser Adjutans as soon as my birds start to produce young ones.

Yes I also hope that it remains calm in Myanmar in the future, though I have the feeling that this is whishful thinking. But as long as the conflict dont spread to the rest of the country (I live in a low populated region of Myanmar) aim unlikely to become much affected anyway.
 
Hi, we've coresponded a bit back on gbwf.org I think? Anyway, I raise cassowaries here in the US (double wattles). And I remember you talking about the prominence of single wattles in thailand or the general asian areas. I am very interested in trying to import some single wattles, wether it be eggs, chicks, of juveniles...im sure adults are impossible to ship. My friend has a adult female single wattled cassowary in Florida, and she is the only one of her kind in the US. We would love to import some more, but cannot find anyone that has them. I've contacted Simon at Walsrode, Germany...and they arent willing to share any. If there is any way you could help us, or any information you could provide to put me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. Even if you know someone that has them and would be interested in buying them to sell to us to make you a profit, we would be more than willing to work with you. I would at least try to import a few chicks. Alot of zoologists tells me I should try eggs, because there is no quarantine on them, and they can be shipped directly to my front door...I would be willing to do this if I could find fertile eggs, hatching them would be at my own risk. Shipping them from that kind of distance would be the key. Anyway, I would love to hear your advice or opinion on the matter. If you would, could you please just email me directly at casuarius81@yahoo.com. Correct me if im wrong, but I saw a posting stating that you have a young pair of single wattles? If so, I really hope you do well with them...they are such an amazing bird. Anyway, take care, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Best Regards, Joel Rogers
 
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