Companion Finch Aviaries

10/02/2024

See you there! ❤️🐦

15/11/2023

Owl Finch🦉Orange Line chick 🥰 Feathery jewels!

04/11/2023

We band cordon bleu chicks on day of fledge using bag balm to lubricate the area. Watch here as a band is worked onto this little one’s foot. Going very slowly to assure there is no injury. This year we utilized the NFSS’s closed aluminum bands.

18/06/2023

This is a shout out to our newest bird lovers! Excited to have you onboard! Wishing you health and happiness as we enjoy our birds together. 🐦

Muhammad Afzal, Suleman Khan, Lahore Birds, Noor Amin, M Sajjad M Sajjad, Usman Ahmed, Kamran Khan Khalil, Farooque Amhed, Ghullam Rasool Ayoub, Bhajnlal Raksha, مہر سہیل, Mehboob Ali, Bubllo Sheikh, Mohammad Hassan, Kanthiram Kanthiram, Zahid Qureshi, نوراللہ درویش, Abu Bakar, Azhar Badasha, Manik Sk, Vijayalaxmi Hosamani, Deepak Kumar Pandit Deepak, Aslam Hussan, Smer Smer, Muhammad Aslam, Badhon Kobir, Malik Shahbaz Shahbaz Malik, Khan Khan, Zia Rohani, Peero Jatoi, Abid Iqbal M***i

22/02/2023

USA: Worth reading! There’s a lot happening right now in the United States. Soon, we will back to our regular duties. ❤️🦋

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22/02/2023

Portland area! Sounds like the best job ever!

Want to work with birds? Gain caretaking skills?
Bird Hut in Portland is desperate to find workers! Hard workers only apply.

*This isn’t a promotion for their company but promotion of an opportunity for those who want to learn, make money caring for animals!

12/02/2023

Notes on Uraeginthus from “Seed-Eating Birds; Their care and breeding” by Jeffrey Trollope p198-200

12/02/2023

Seattle area: Don’t miss this sale with many small finches, canaries, and small hookbills! Well worth the drive to Clackamas Oregon! ❤️

15/01/2023

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06/01/2023

Florida area: (Oldsmar), tis’ the season to socialize some baby birds! ❤️
https://www.facebook.com/287772438570/posts/10160463090708571/?mibextid=cr9u03

Happy new year! We need VOLUNTEERS to come hold baby birds! Holding and petting babies is what helps make them tame and keep them tame. We currently have some tame, sweet sun conures that we need to keep sweet! To volunteer, show up anytime Monday-Friday from 11-4 or Sat/Sun between 9-noon and ask to “volunteer to hold babies”. We’ll give you a cage of babies and a chair. Come hang out with us. Who knows, maybe you’ll even be VOLUNTEER of the Month this year! ❤️🦜

Location: 180 Race Track Rd Oldsmar, FL building J west

Edit: we’re still looking for newspaper if you have extra to donate! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

06/01/2023

Happy national bird day! ❤️🐦
This day marks an annual shift in the seasons. 🐣

Bird people are good people! 👏👏👏
Keep CBs in the USA! 🐦🐦🐦
Best wishes for a happy and blessed 2023! 🥳🥳🥳

Link:

The majority of bird species in the U.S. face a grim future in coming decades if environmental efforts are not implemented on a larger scale.

07/10/2022

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ATTN: BLUE LOVERS AND CONSERVATIONISTS! Wonderful opportunity to keep and work with this beautiful species, or diversify your existing genetic pool! Uraeginthus angolensis (Blue Waxbill, Blue Breasted Cordon Bleu):

‼️3 pairs are available now Bird Hut, Portland Oregon‼️

⚠️Some of the last of this species available in the entire USA. Please share this post and help get these pairs into the hands of conservation! Perhaps attend the “Canary Club Show” nearby, and make a weekend of it?

📝 Keep separate from the other species of Uraeginthus to prevent hybridization and infertility. Pairs should be allowed single pair nesting spaces and specific accommodation including stages of live foods for greatest chance of sucess.

🛑 Disclaimer: No affiliation with this store at this time, or this group of birds (unrelated to our current birds: not descendants, nor imported by us!)

“Guardians of the Blues, keep CBs in the USA!” 🙏
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07/10/2022

See updates!
LIVE: Pink pigeons in the park! Catch them if you can! 🦩🦩🕊🕊
LOCAL NEWS LINK:
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/10/06/pigeons-painted-pink-spotted-in-pembroke-pines-park/

04/10/2022

A glympse into the world of these tiny baby bicheno finches (double barred, owl finch) hatching out in the CF project space. Let’s hope mom and dad let them stick around, and keep them fed.

These new parents are still learning and sadly lost their previous couple chicks, but it looks like these two little ones are off to a great start! ❤️

30/09/2022

Little blue birds weathering the storm. Thankful for the joy they bring to life. ❤️ This one is over friendly, quite tame and keeps following us. 😂 Baloo might get jealous! 😬
Guardian of the blues, 🐦 keep CBs in the US! ❤️🐦❤️🐦❤️🐦❤️🐦❤️🐦❤️🐦❤️🐦❤️

30/09/2022

Beautiful color on this baby cinna”mini”!! Diamond doves (one of the smallest doves in the world)!😍❤️🥰🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

11/09/2022

SEATTLE AREA: Sept 17-18: No local events, bird trains, or meetups are planned for that weekend. We will be traveling to the east coast for more routine, end of season duties! Preparing the birds to head indoors. We call this “assisted migration”. 😆

04/09/2022

SEATTLE AREA:
Redmond 👉 Bremerton, and Bremerton 👉 Redmond

Bird Transit Train- Education and outreach weekends!
📝 Transporting disease free birds for free, and air-locked or lab specimens for a small fee! ❤️
📝Message us to schedule outreach at your community event!
📝Join us, and support your local community of bird lovers and conservationists!
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04/09/2022

Well that’s a first- went into the Companion Finch room late at night to check on where our owl finch are chosing to sleep these days, and I saw this!! It shocked me- I had to do a double take!

Seems the spice finches are trying to nest! 🤣Never seen these guys breed outside a colony (30+) setting (in outdoor aviary down south no less!), had these two for years- and NEVER expected much from this single skittish pair (acquired as young chicks)…but interested to see what happens with this!!! I saw them spending a lot of time roosting at the top of this tree, and scoping out the spot…. so I put a nest there for them- and sure enough -they needed to drop eggs! We had already been supplementing and conditioning this pair, and using “unruffled RX calcium & magnesium for birds”. They are now spending the night in the nest. 🤞

Hypothesis:

Since the blue waxbills from the project are being separated to rest the pairs, I think these spice finches saw their opportunity to give it a go without interference from any “waxbill nest raiders”.

So, These spice finch we have (named “Pica” and “Piedra”) cannot be caged, they are too wild, and they actually break their wings, even in big flights- so they have lived in artificial trees for years now. Well…I think they like it 🤣. I just hope the two pair of owl finches in there won’t bother them. Perhaps I’ll cage the owls tomorrow just in case?

This is a “scaly-breasted munia or spotted munia, nutmeg mannikin or spice finch”: Lonchura punctulata

They are extremely sensitive! ❤️🤎❤️🤎

04/09/2022

Uraeginthus bengalus spot!
Library credit: aboutPets “The Finches”.

03/09/2022

SEATTLE AREA: Weekend of bird fun has begun! 👏🤣❤️❤️❤️ Ping us for planned locations near you! 👋 After a hard weeks work, spend some time relaxing in person, and meeting new feather friends! ❤️🐦

27/08/2022

SEATTLE/PORTLAND AREA:
Seattle 👉 Portland, and Portland 👉 Seattle!

Bird Transit Train- Education and outreach weekends!
📝 Transporting disease free birds free, and air-locked or lab specimens for a small fee! ❤️
📝Message us to schedule an educational event at your be store!
📝Join us, and support your local community of bird lovers and conservationists!
🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦

26/08/2022

GUARDIANS OF THE BLUES:
🦋❤️🙏Keep CBs in the USA 🙏❤️🦋
Library credit: photos and excerpts are from:
”Breeding Birds at Home” by Jürgen Nicolai

26/08/2022

Some baby owls getting their pin feathers. 😭❤️

22/08/2022

SEATTLE AREA: LOST PARROT!!! Have you seen me? ❤️

22/08/2022

FLORIDA AREA: We were just informed how rare this parrot is! ❤️❤️❤️ Something to see for sure if you’re in the area! 👏

22/08/2022

FLORIDA AREA: Considering a feathered friend? ❤️ Think local and support your favorite rescues and shops!

Happy Saturday! We have 2 beautiful yellow parakeets up for adoption. One is quite friendly and will sit on your finger and other is a work in progress. Stop by and meet them if you are interested.

18/08/2022

OREGON AREA: Support your local bird stores!!! ❤️🥰❤️🥰 “Put a bird on it!” 🐦👏🐦👏🥰 Beautiful birds, very caring folks —helping to keep our feathered friends happy at bird hut. ❤️

Our store first opened in 1977 and has been Portland's exotic bird ​headquarters ever since. We'd love to know: When was the first time you started buying your exotic bird supplies from us?