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From: larrabee@decwrl.dec.com (Tracy Larrabee)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: More on Hookbills
Message-ID: <841@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 15 Oct 88 04:33:05 GMT
References: <9921@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <9921@ihlpa.ATT.COM> harolds1@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Schessler) writes:
>>    A Molluccan Cockatoo, Shiva, is the most gorgeous, curious, and downright
>>   He is a wild bird from Australia 
>

Molluccans do not come from Australia, which is good, because owning a bird
that you know was once living loose in Australia is a Felony.  There are
*no* birds legally imported to the U.S. from Australia.  Moluccans come
from the Pacific islands, but fortunately they breed well in captivity.  Many
Molluccans imported to this country as "wild caught" are just raised 
in foreign aviaries without the kind of personal attention that a hand
fed bird requires.  I personally believe that the only people who should
own wild-caught birds are breeders and that all others should buy only
domestic birds.