Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!inuxc!inuxd!jla
From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: It's all your fault! (was Re: Hookbills)
Message-ID: <1287@inuxd.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 01:40:18 GMT
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> In article <1284@inuxd.UUCP> jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) writes:
> 
> >> I have to say I miss Vashon, as he is now "put to stud" and is no
> >> longer a companion bird. 
> 
> >I was thinking of finding a stud for Madeira, but I'm afraid
> >she'd nag him to death.                                 
> >	Joyce Andrews King                      
> 
>   Bluefronted Amazons are not yet endangered, but at the current rate
> of destruction of their environment I predict that they will become so
> within the next 5-8 years. In that case, you may want to consider
> whether you have a responsibility to help perpetuate the species. As
> conservationist parrot-lovers, we have some tough decisions to make.
> Personally, I hope to be able to set up an aviary within the next two
> years with the intention of breeding endangered species. I will limit
> my companionship relations with birds to the more easily bred,
> unthreatened species.
>  -lar
>  
>  PS Is Madeira named after the place, the product, or what? Vashon and
>
Madeira is a river that flows NE into the Amazon.  

I was being a bit facetious, though, when I mentioned breeding
her.  I know she wouldn't be my buddy anymore...she wouldn't sit
on my shoulder and watch the colors change on the monitor.  But
she's such a TERRIFIC bird, she probably should be bred.  I live
in a great place to breed parrots.  I wouldn't have to provide
any heat...parrots (macaws, Amazons, etc.) live wild here after
they escape.  We had a breeding pair of blue and gold macaws
living in the Keys until some stupid A*****E shot them.

Now, see, there I go getting my blood pressure up again.  I'm
really much too old for this sort of thing.  The reason I posted
the jocular message was because I'd gotten so hot over the
hunting thing.

Why don't all of you just come down here, do a little bird
watching, visit the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center,
and calm me down?

 
-- 
	Joyce Andrews King                      
	att!inuxd!jla
	AT&T, Indianapolis
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