Do you sell or adopt out birds?

We do not adopt out or sell birds. This is largely for the wellbeing of the birds, who have settled and created bonds with other individuals and groups in the aviaries. However, we also have a number of people who surrender birds to us with the knowledge that they will stay here.

How do you stop the birds from breeding?

We do not provide any nest boxes/areas in the aviaries. For birds like finches and canaries, breeding is generally difficult to stop, as they are brilliant at nest-building and hiding in various places. Given our aviaries have foliage to create a natural environment for them, this creates an environment in which nest building is easy for these types of birds.

For parrots - particularly weiros/cockatiels and budgies - the lack of nest boxes decreases egg-laying, aggression, and the general interesting in breeding.

What do you feed them?

Most of the birds have a similar diet: a mixture of sprouted seeds and grains, regular high-quality seed mix, along with a variety of chopped and whole vegetable pieces. The most common and readily-eaten vegetables are broccoli, silverbeet, spinach, kale, corn on the cob (raw and rinsed), capsicum, chillies, carrot, snow peas.

The plumhead parrots eat a larger amount of fruit and are provided with a variety in a bowl each day, including: apple, kiwifruit, strawberry and other berries, banana (not very popular), mango, peach, melon … whatever is in season … and almonds.