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    Default Re: Teaching Flight Recall - The First Steps

    Quote Originally Posted by linda040899 View Post
    For those who don't recognize the species of lovebird in marc's video, you are watching an agapornis nigrigenis or Black Cheeked Lovebird. In their natural habitat, this is the most endangered species of the lovebirds.

    Nice looking lovebird, marc.

    yes, he is just an agapornis nigrigenis or Black Cheeked Lovebird. It's shame that those birds are endangered; I hope that in future in Africa will be born a lot of nigrigenis.

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    The problem with the Black Cheeked Lovebird goes back as far as the 1920s when a lot of them were taken from their natural habitat and brought into the pet trade. Yes, they DO make adorable pets but right now, there are not enough to really support that. They have never recovered from all the birds that were removed at that time.

    Habitat-wise, they live around the Victoria Falls area in Africa. Reason is that they need higher humidity for their babies to develop and hatch. That's one of the main problems that many breeders encounter when they try breeding this species. I, personally, kept mine in pairs but I've been told they are most successfully bred in colonies.

    On the up side, breeders are having a lot of success breeding this lovely little gem in captivity.
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    It's nice to read what that you write about them.
    it seems that you have a great knowledge about them.
    I love them thus you are becoming a person interesting for me because what that you write about them is correct.
    It's true when you write that the humidity is the key for breeding them very good but fortunately this is enough popularized and known from new breeders.
    are you sure that you will not breed them again?

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    The biggest problem with breeding Black Cheeks here in the US is the availability of quality breeding stock. There are a few breeders that have good birds, but unrelated bloodlines is another difficulty. The Wild Bird Conservation Act of 1992 pretty much stopped the importation of parrots into the United States and the only way to do it now is through breeding partnerships and you need the approval of US Fish & Wildlife. I've imported Abyssinians in the past and I can tell you that it's a long and expensive process. If you don't dot your "i"s and cross your "t"s, the birds can actually be exported from their destination, arrive in the US, only to be destroyed by USDA for lack of proper paperwork! The import process for just one shipment can take up to a year!

    If I could get 8 birds, all from completely different bloodlines, I might consider it.
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    It's not this a problem in Europe.
    there are a lot of great breeder (expecially in Belgium and Holland), so it's always possible find good birds with different bloodlines.
    I don't know that there are few breeders of nigrigenis in US, I thought that in US there was a lot of breeders since the US is very giant.
    Now, I know! anyway I hope that you are capable of finding 8 birds, all from completely different bloodlines because it's necessary to breed these birds, and it's necessary to find good breeders; you seem to me a good breeder.

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    I love the black cheeked. One day I would move to another species of agapornis, but I can never decide which one. I think when the time comes I will see what species is where. Black cheeked are quite popular here, lots of new mutations about aswell. I like the madagascans myself.

    A friend has just recently got 3 pairs of pullarius, im quite excited to see these as I am yet to see them in real. I know the price he paid for them could buy me a very nice car, so I doubt I will ever have a pair.

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    My heart belongs to Agapornis Taranta. I thought about Maddies but they have a very short breeding life and Pullarius are extremely high strung. I had an opportunity to import a few but the exporter couldn't guarantee I would get them alive.
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    I have seen the Pullaria only in the pictures
    Also in the shows of the birds it's impossible to see a Pullaria.

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    Default Re: Teaching Flight Recall - The First Steps

    I want to share this video with you all.
    In this video is possible to see how "to teach" at the bird the recall;
    It is very important the reward after that the bird correctly performs the exercise.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEvL_waJK_4

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