Latest Australian finches Podcast Episodes
Come visit Bird Paradise Singapore!
BirdCast - June 19, 2023 04:00 - 8 minutesA special treat for our loyal BirdCast listeners - a special episode for your enjoyment and education! For decades Jurong Bird Park in Singapore held the mantle of the biggest and most impressive bird collection available for viewing and exhibition to the general public. Jurong Bird Park had the...
Quarantine in your aviaries and the end of the year with Birdman Dad
BirdCast - November 25, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutesFor the final episode for 2022 Birdman Dad is having a chat about what he suggests when you receive new birds into his aviaries and what he does regarding quarantine. We wish all our listeners a very safe and merry festive season and a very Happy 2023. Hope to have you all back listening again...
The artful glossie black cockatoo
BirdCast - November 12, 2022 08:00 - 20 minutesYou may (or may not) be aware but there are no glossie black cockatoo homelands in Western Australia AND there are no glossies on public display either. So what do West Aussies do when they want to see a glossie?? Well a group of youth we found out in a suburb of Perth have created an art exhib...
Aviary building with Birdman Dad
BirdCast - October 30, 2022 10:00 - 9 minutesBuilding aviairies or remodelling existing aviaries can be as much as a hobby as the birds that end up in them. Birdman dad has been building and remodelling aviaries either for himself or helping out other bird keepers with their aviaries for as long as he can remember. This time he is buildi...
A little bit extra (avian nutrition)
BirdCast - October 13, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutesIt's spring and your avairy kept birds need to have a varied diet to keep healthy and support their babies. Listen in for some hints and tips on products that can be helpful in keeping your birds in top health.
Creating neutral territory for aviary birds
BirdCast - September 29, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutesSome aviary birds need extra attention when it comes to new introductions - especially several species of finches. Today Birdman Dad is going to share with you, amongst some other ideas, how you can create a finch introduction space. BirdCast also has on offer to one listener the South Australi...
Bird Hospital
BirdCast - September 15, 2022 16:00 - 15 minutesThere are a few essentials you need to have when you have pet birds, one of those is a confinement/hospital/hot box - a small, warm space a pet bird can go when they are unwell. Today's episode discusses these boxes and some suggestions on what to do when a sick bird has left the box. Hope it h...
Nest box troubles and unwell birds
BirdCast - September 01, 2022 16:00 - 10 minutesMany years ago an old farmer shared with me his realities of having livestock; he reassured me that even though it was saddening (and at times devastating emotionally and to lineage genetics) that if you are involved with living things, then innately you will be involved with deceased living thi...
A grass parrot coloured like a rainbow - the beautiful scarlet chested parrot.
BirdCast - August 18, 2022 16:00 - 13 minutesThe scarlet chested parrot would have to be one of the most colourful small parrots of Australia; a little parrot ,hat like the budgie , has found itself living in the most unusual places throughout the world. What was once a common bird seen in and around the Swan Valley of Western Australia i...
Birding Garden - wild birds making the best of what aviculturists have on offer.
BirdCast - August 04, 2022 16:00 - 10 minutesBirdman Dad is back this week - talking about what he is up to with his pet birds but also the little gems of wild bird life he gets to glimpse and be part of because he keeps pet birds. And he is learning all the time! As well as chatting about some recent aviary bird experiences concerning his...
Bird gardening - plants that are great for your birds
BirdCast - July 14, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutesThere is great nutrition, enrichment and usefulness is all sorts of plants for aviary, companion, rescue and zoo living birds - in fact so many plants are so good for every bird's health and general wellbeing. But sadly many bird owners are unsure of, or unaware, of the plant treasure trove in ...
Necessity is the mother of invention... even if it takes a while
BirdCast - June 30, 2022 16:00 - 12 minutesSome items in Birdman Dad's aviaries have been in need of a change for some time and this winter it has happened - a bit like the automatic watering system in the summer - it just takes a while to get things sorted, especially during the past few years of material and tradesmen shortages. A lon...
Snap shot of making a glass change
BirdCast - June 16, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutesIn response to listener requests today BirdCast is presenting a very brief review of what people can do to help birds with regards to their existing glass windows and glass pool fencing. This is a real snap shot of what you can do - just remember in windows whatever you"do" has to be on the ou...
Solid Air - how to save millions of wild birds in Australia
BirdCast - June 02, 2022 16:00 - 26 minutes"We are their only, hope, and I am confident we will make our windows safe for birds because it is the right thing to do." Dr Daniel Klem Jnr, 2021. This is the third episode concerning the very large conservation issue of wild bird deaths because of clear glass/plastic used as glass - the gla...
Solid Air - how to save millions of wild birds Pt2
BirdCast - May 19, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutesAs stunning and useful our glass windows, doors and pool fencing is; it conceals a dark secret - annually it is killing millions of our beautiful, free flying wild birds.. and that's a conservative estimate. Help be part of effective change to this simple to solve environmental problem. Become p...
Solid Air - how to save billions of wild birds Pt1
BirdCast - May 05, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutesToday's episode (Part1) is a plea to humans of our world to change what they are doing for the sake - and lives - of all wild birds. And everyone can take part - with somewhat reasonable ease - to alter their own solid air and literally save billions of our beautiful, wild birds. For as "noice" ...
Helping keep your aviary birds happy and healthy
BirdCast - April 21, 2022 16:00 - 11 minutesYour pets need regular care to maintain their health. BirdMan Dad explains how he keeps his scarlet chested parrots (Neophema splendida) happy and healthy. Hopefully one of his suggestions will help you and your own avairy birds. If you have anytopics you would like to hear about please contact...
Limiting rust in metal aviaries
BirdCast - March 25, 2022 10:00 - 16 minutesToday's episode is in response to a listener question.... "How do I stop my outdoor metal aviairy rusting?" Hope the episode gives this listener, and anyone else with a metal aviary, some ideas on how to limit rust occuring or how to deal with it if it actually happens. All relevant photos wi...
Out of Step - when your aviaries just aren't suiting your birds anymore.
BirdCast - March 10, 2022 16:00 - 14 minutesEven the best aviaries in the world can become outdated (in product options) and no longer servicing appropriately the birds kept within them. New advancements in available products are always on the go and sometimes the species of bird you have selected to keep do not suit the actual aviaries ...
Let's go
BirdCast - February 26, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes** How can we express our shock at the events of Thursday 24th February 2022? Birdcast has a loyal group of listeners from Ukraine and our thoughts are with them, their families and their avian family (as well as other innocent animals) during this darkest time in their lives. Out of respect t...
Back in the aviary
BirdCast - February 10, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutesBirdCast has come back to visit the naretha aviaries but not to talk about naretha bluebonnet parrots instead the cleaning of the aviaries and some hints and tips on nest box and general aviary management. If you keep aviary birds yourself you will know how important it is to manage your bird's ...
Birding in the Great Western Woodlands
BirdCast - January 27, 2022 16:00 - 16 minutesYou don't even need to leave Australian shores to find natural wonders that exist nowhere else on planet Earth. The Great Western Woodlands of south western Australia is a place of temperate forest that exists no where else and it is massive in size. Within the woodlands exists flora and fauna u...
Feeling the heat
BirdCast - January 13, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutesWow summer has sure burst into Western Australia this season. The Christmas week was unbelievably hot and there's been a few more days since and no doubt many more to come. All birds no matter where they live in this part of WA will be feeling it, including any outdoor aviary kept birds. Please...
Cooking up a bird cake
BirdCast - December 30, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutesJoin BirdCast as they cook up a festive treat for their parrots and finches; this cake is a favourite choice and enjoyed by all the feathered friends who are lucky enough to receive it! Let BirdCast know if you have your own favourite avian receipe! Happy New Year 2022 to all the BirdCast li...
Famous for all the wrong reasons
BirdCast - December 17, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutesWelcome back to BirdCast after our covid19 break! We launch off today with a Citizen Science Project.. the hunt for the black throated finch (Poephila cincta) (southern subspecies).. in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. Poephila cincta became famous back a few years ago over t...
Silent Hearts - a pathway to restoration for antbed parrots
BirdCast - November 11, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes"To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts>" Anthony Douglas Williams Part 2 Hear what the Artemis Nature Fund is doing to preserve the last stronghold of the wild golden shouldered p...
Silent Hearts - a pathway to extinction for antbed parrots
BirdCast - November 04, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes"To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts". Anthony Douglas Williams Australia is well known for their history of flora and fauna extinctions, and it seems to be a national trajectory...
Ruffling feathers - our home is a black cockatoo nursery
BirdCast - October 21, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutesWhen Larry and Barbara retired to the south of Western Australia they " thought" their days of research and development were behind them - that was until some large and noisy neighbours decided to drop in for a drink. Since arriving at their home in Nullaki, Western Australia; the 3 species o...
Step One: Aviary engagement
BirdCast - October 07, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutesThe future life of all avicultural societies, clubs and organisations will be determined by the ability of the hobby overall to engage and recruit the younger generation. We are forever hearing in the media that Gen X,Y,Z... are engaged with their smart phones and social media platforms and not ...
From humble budgie beginnings to the Fitzroy Sulphur crested cockatoo
BirdCast - September 23, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutesCockatoos are indelibly linked to the Australian outback, often through popular image culture, and this popular photography subject has indeed proven in recent times that cockatoos reside not only in the bush, but are also moving into many of Australia's bigger cities and towns (check out Cockat...
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