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Hello. I'm sorry I did not see you comment until now. Yes, Tassie (Tasmania) is an incredible place with abundant surviving wildlife due to the lower concentrations of people. I think it is highly unlikely the Thylacine survives but I keep my fingers crossed. What's most important now is ensuring all currently surviving threatened species continue to survive, and this is the main reason why I purchased this land (a "rewilding" project). Best regards from Tasmania.

Male has thicker bands on his chest, and more black above the beak

Huge out-of-spec SDE. See my report here: www.cloudynights.com/topic/654682-ioptron-cem120-ec2-dec-instability/

I've never kept canaries so I can't be sure. Canaries are much larger, but I think it would be ok in an aviary or in a very large cage.

@@DragonsOfAra yeah, I was also thinking about an aviary not a small cage. I think they can

I have kept them with canaries.

@@philipveerman7526 cool!! Did you name them!?

yes, but cage will be 1 cubic feet min for each pair

Thanks for the rude comment. It seems being anonymous on the Internet allows people to show their true ugly self.

@@DragonsOfAra Nothing rude about it they are double bar finches and are not an owl of any type.

@@kingbee17able I think both you and I know that your opinion regarding the common name of this finch is not the rude part of your comment. Feel free to call it whatever you wish; I also call it a double-bar when I'm in Australia.

@@DragonsOfAra Still nothing rude in what I said if you think they look like owls you need glasses.

@Rei Naoki Face is nothing like an owl owl's have eyes that face foward binocular vision double bars have eyes on the side of there head wings well double bars wings aren't as soft as an owls wings and aren't silent when they fly so you are wrong on both counts.

Yes, this is the cock's call. Hen's aren't this vocal.

No not yet. I reduced the binding by very carefully rebalancing the OTA, but that did not stop the binding completely. The EQ8 is apparently very sensitive to even slight imbalance.

Hi Joanne. Oh yes, what you see here is the call of a cock, without a doubt. This 2016 video was taken when I had just started to keep Diamonds, so I was very inexperienced. While hens and cocks can make similar vocalisations, a hen makes nothing even remotely similar to the mating call of a cock.

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Hell Pauline. Update: the cause of this illness appears to be drug-resistant air sac mites. Ivermectin at the recommended dose (here in Japan) of 400ug/kg delivered directly to the crop had minimal effect, about 5 days relief before the coughing returned. A double dose (800ug/kg) had similar minimal effect. I managed to cure this illness by using a 400ug/kg dose of moxidectin (not generally used here in Japan) delivered directly to the crop, with a follow-up dose 10 days later. Have you tried treating for ASM yet? If not, first try delivery via their drinking water before trying crop-dosing.

@@DragonsOfAra what can u do for my gouldian. Same probleme here

​@@abaliante the same solution as I explained above. What air sac mite medication have you tried? You should clean and disinfect the cage completely after medication too, to kill any remaining mites, or they may reinfect the birds.

@@DragonsOfAra my parents cleaned the cage with vinegar firstly after we found out that she is ill. yesterday I ordered a drug with ivermectin. I hope that helps.

@@abaliante I doubt that vinegar will be strong enough to kill the mite eggs. Please clean the cage again using something like bleach if you don't want to use stronger measures like pesticides. But clean it *each time* you give the bird the two rounds of Ivermectin/Moxidectin, two weeks apart.

Thank you for the comment Rui. I just posted an update you may wish to read.

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