Visitor

Found another visitor in my garden. This fella is a different one from the previous posts. I know because the previous one is now in a cage hehehe! Would need to release it later further away as it has a bad habit of sleeping on top of my Mata Puteh cage. This new one suggest that the local colony is probably nearby (my hypothesis), anyway I am not that observant but one day when I find a small flock of about 10 birds visiting my garden, then I could confirm it ;)

Hwamei Pt.2

Added a female Hwamei to my collection. Very likely a female due to lack of mid-tone and she has the characteristic female call. Who knows? 2 years down the line, I may be motivated to breed them ;)

Quite a boring phase at the moment as most of the time, I keep them covered. Singing well and fed a concoction of chicken feed, egg yolk, honey and a commercial peanut base feed (by Mr. John Yim).

Listed under the 2nd schedule of CITES, wonder whether I need to register them in line with the new laws of the land. Time to pay another visit to the Wildlife office.

Male Hwamei:



Female Hwamei:

Re-Home 1 pair Shama

Any Malaysian visitor of my blog interested in a pair of White-rumped Shama can email me at dance4rain@yahoo.com
Free to serious hobbyists only. You would probably need a secure and isolated (from human traffic) aviary to successfully breed this pair. Currently kept together in a 23" cage.

Note (update 17th Jan): Have decided to release the birds in a secondary jungle nearby. One day I will go video and see whether they stick around or not.

Captive Bred Shamas

A friend has some success with breeding of his Shama. Not that it is something new, others have had successes before too but these babies, I am interested in because I have been a little preoccupied with getting the long tail genes into my Shamas. The sire of these chicks is a 10" bird from Langkawi. The hen too is not a bad specimen herself.

Out of a clutch of 3, I took 2, a male and a female. The male, I would keep for my friend to see how it would turn out. The female is for my future breeding.