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i need bird talk magazines for Christmas, anyone help ?
i need a few bird talk magazines. If anyone is interested in selling
theirs, please E-mail me. The issues i need are as follows:
any issues prior to 1985
1985 i need everyissue except october
1986 i need Feb, march, april, july, aug, sept,oct, nov, dec.
1987 i need Jan, Feb, March, June, Aug, Sept, Oct.
1988 i need March, April, May, June, Sept, oct
1989 i need April, May, June
1990 i need October
1991 i need August
1992 i need november
1993 i need August
1997 i need July |
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-If you ever get a chance to visit a "Bird Mart" in your area, the Bird Talk
folks are usually there. That's what the representative told me, at
least.... Along with offering a two year subscription for the one year
price, they have a table full of prior issues for sale. -I may have some in the basement. I will go look. I figured they were just
exploiting the people/bird relationship. I thought they should be more
conscientious about bird issues and give a better guidance to having
integrity in the bird/people equation.
The case in point was an article on Busch Gardens in Tampa. Someone went
there and wrote a whole big glowing article. It was a bird paradise. They
raved about the row of cages with all different types of amazons in them.
Blah, Blah, Blah.
I thought it sounded like bird paradise. I do computer software contracting
so I thought that winter I'd see if there were any jobs in Florida. I went
to Tampa for 7 months and had an apartment 2 blocks from Busch Gardens. I
got a year pass for around $80 and I was set.
There were some good things but also some very bad things. That walkway of
amazons in cages was a disgrace. There were pictures in the magazine but it
never struck me until I actually saw it. If the birds had been potted
plants instead of actualy living beings, it would have been great. The cages
were round, like metal christmas ornaments. That is, there was no bottom.
One perch went across the middle with water dish at one end and food dish at
the other. Not enough room to spread the wings out. The diet was OK. They
got a mixture with fruits in it. But NO possiblility of movement. They sat
on that one perch for YEARS. They were usually sleeping from boredom. Even
with many people around them they were lethargic. When it rained they would
hang on the side of their cage and try to get to the raindrops but it was a
covered walkway. It made me sad.
Also, they had sun conures in a cage which was perpetually in heavy shade.
It was a tall cage (like 8 ft. tall) but narrow (like 4 ft across). My sun
conures LOVE the sunshine. They like to sit in the sun. And they are not
like humming birds who can fly straight up and down but can fly the length of
my house (30 ft.) in a few seconds.
I loved their Lorikeet display. They all had 6 ftl tall cages that were15-20
ft. long all arranged like spokes on a wheel with the walkway in the middle.
With one big tree in the middle and bushes around the perimeter so there was
shade and sun.
Anyway, they were not interested in any other opinion than that was bird
paradise.
They did raise wonderful bird babies there. But I didn't like their caging
of the adult birds and the birds in the shows.
I think a bird magazine should also spend time being an advocate, a voice,
for the birds' point of view. Like even, occassionally, more radically,
speaking to the horrible way chickens are treated in our country (I don't
know how they are treated elsewhere). I know people who have had chickens
as pets and love them. And how they are treated in America is like the Nazi
death camps. Unconscionable.
So, since in your MBA courses we learned that we vote with our dollars. I
stopped voting for them. |
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