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Over the past few years, a number of very interesting and informative articles have been  published in the Society magazine "Bird Keeping in Australia".  A selection of these articles are now available on this site for reading via the internet.  Please feel free to check them out now, or you can download them for later reading.

We will add new articles to this page periodically - so please come back and check out this page every so often.

Please feel free to download the following members only selection of articles. All articles are in Adobe PDF format.
You will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and use these articles. If you don't already have it, you can download it Free by clicking on the following Acrobat Reader Icon.

Once you have downloaded and installed Acrobat Reader, click on the link download to view the articles your interested in.

Currently the following articles are available :
(Newest articles marked with * at left )

Aviaries, Aviary Management, Etc
  A Birdkeeper Goes Shopping
  Automatic Watering System
  Aviary Manufacture
  Problems of Disturbing Birds
  Hollow Logs
  How Do You Catch Your Birds
  My Aviary
  My Aviary - Continued
  My Aviaries
  Nest Guard
  New Watering System
  Seed Winnower 1
  Seed Winnower 2
  Snakes in Aviaries
* Snakes in Aviaries 2
  Water in Aviaries
  Watering System
Book Reviews
  A Guide to ... Eclectus Parrots
  A Guide to ... Gouldian Finch
  The Gouldian Finch
  Under the Microscope
Branch News
  May 2008
  June 2008
  July 2008
  August 2008
  September 2008
  October 2008
* November 2008
Conservation Corner
  Avicultural Conservation
  Bali Starling
  Birds for Biodiversity
  Black Cockatoos
  Climate Change
  Diamond Firetail
  Extinct Birds - Carolina Parakeet
  Extinct Birds - The Great Auk
* Extinct Birds - Laughing Owl
  Extinction
  Eyre Pen Yellow-tailed Black
  Effects of Fire Management on Parrots
  Glossy Black Cockatoo 1
  Glossy Black Cockatoo 2
  Glossy Black Cockatoo 3
  Gouldian Re-introduction
  Kakapo 1
  Kakapo 2
  Malleefowl
  PCD
  Plains Wanderer
  Stephens Island Wren - Exctinct Bird Series
Diet, Diseases, Feeding, Etc
  Appropriate Use of Antibiotics
  Aspergillus
  Be Alarmed - Psittacosis
  Beginner Bit - Livefood
  Calcium Deficiency
  Cuttlebone
  Egg Binding
  Feeding Seed
  First Aid for Birds
  Formation of the Egg
  Green Feed
  Search for the Holy Grain
  Is it okay to kiss my bird
  Leg Deformity
  Livefood
  Live Food for Aviary Birds
  Making Your Own Seed Bells
  Mealworms
  Medicinal Foods
  Moulting in Birds
  New Foods
  PCD Update
  Problems and Solutions
  Understanding Bio-availability
  Understanding Protein
  Go to the Vet or not ?
  Variety and Moderation
  Vitamin A Deficiency
Finches
  The African Fire Finch
  African Fire Finch 2
  The African Firefinch 3
  Albino Gouldian Finches
  An Unusual Emblema Nest
  Beautiful Firetail
  Bengalese Finch
  Bengalese Finch
  Black-headed Nun
  Black-throated Finches
  Black-throated Finch
  Bronze-wing Mannikin
  Lucky Choice - Canary
  Canary
  Charcoal Zebras
  Cordon Blue Mutations
  Cordon Bleu Waxbill
  Cuban Finch
  Hooded Siskin
  Hooded Siskin 2
  Foreign Finches
  Finch Breeding in Germany
  Java Sparrow
  Masked and Pictorella Finches
  Society Project on Masked Finch
  Nest Interference in finches
  The Nun Family in Australian Collections
  Plum-headed Finch
  Quail Finch
* Red-billed Quelea
  Red-faced Parrot-finch
  Red-faced Parrot-finch 2
  Star Finch
  Status of Aust Finches
  St Helena Waxbill
* Strawberry Finch
  Yellow-rumped Mannikin
Miscellaneous
  Adelaide Zoo June 2004 Update
  Adelaide Zoo Spring 2005 Update
  Adelaide Zoo Summer 2005 Update
  Zoo News - Winter 2005
  Adelaide Zoo Oct 2006
  2008 Adelaide Bird Sale
  A Pleasant Surprise
  Beginners Bit - Give Young Birds a Chance
* Bird-eating Spider
  Christmas with Parrots
  Autumn 2007 Editorial
  Days of Yore
  Editorial Sept 08
  Exotic Birds Media Release
  Exotic Bird Scheme Sept 08
* Exotic Bird Media Release Nov 08
  Finches '08 Convention
  Fun Facts about Birds
  Gunnedah Bird Sale
  Lose Exotic Birds ?
  Minutes Aug 08
  Minutes Sept 08
  My Bird Update
  Rings, Bird Leg Rings
  Savannah
  Sex Linked Mutation Guide
  Society History - 80th Anniversary
  2004 UBSSA Seminar
 
  2005 UBSSA Seminar
  2005 Audit Report
  2006 Audit Report
  Visit to a Pheasant Farm
Monthly Newsletters (some are large files and will take time to load; also note the monthly Newsletters were discontinued in April '08 and replaced with a monthly Magazine. Individual Magazine articles are now placed on this page each month instead, and denoted with a *)
  January 2008
  February 2008
  March 2008
  April 2008
   
  December 2007
Parrots
  African Grey Parrot
  Alexandrine Parakeet
  The Budgerigar
  The Blue Bonnets
  Baby
* Black-cheeked Lovebird
  Blue Bonnets
  Origin of the Blue Princess Parrot
  Cock of the Year - Bourke
  Derbyan Parakeet
  Eclectus - Worth The Wait
  Experiences with Cockatiels
  Fischer's Lovebird
  Gang Gang Cockatoos
  Gang Gang Cockatoo
  Green-cheeked Conure
  Green Rosella
  Indian Ringnecks
  King of the West - Red-capped Parrot
  Lovebirds
  Making a Mistake with Indian Ringnecks
  Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
  Masked Lovebird
  Moustached Parrot
  Native Parrots Held in SA
  Nyassa Lovebird
  Orange-bellied Parrot
  Breeding Orange-bellied Parrot
  Pale-headed Rosella
  Parrots as Pets
  Plains Wanderer
  Plum-headed Parrot
  The Polytelis Genus
  Pt Lincoln Parrot
  Princess Parrot
  Psephotus Parrots
  Psittaculture
  Purple-crowned Lorikeet
  Cuban Red Macaw
  Rainbow Lorikeet
  Rainbow Lorikeet
  Scarlet-chested Parrot
  Slaty-headed Parrot
  Spastic Leg Paralysis of Parrots
  Spix Macaw
  Status of Parrots in SA - 2003
  Swift Parrot- Conservation Corner
  Varied Lorikeet
  Worm Management in Parrots
Society Information
  Our Branches
  SE Branch 25th Birthday
  SE Branch 30th Birthday
  SE Branch 30th Birthday
  Tribute to Chris Welford
  Young Guns of SA Aviculture
Softbills, Doves & Quail
  A Quail of a Story
  Artificial Rearing of Button-quail
  Australian Dotterels
  Black-breasted Button-quail
  Black Swan
  Black-winged Stilt
  Blue-winged Kookaburra
  Breeding Australian Fruit-doves
  Brown Pigeon
  Common & Brush Bronzewings
  Doves in South Australia
  Green-wing Pigeon
  Green-wing Pigeon 2
  Guineafowl
  Hand-raising Doves
  King Quail Mutations
  Kookaburras
  Kookaburras
  Life In the Fast Lane - Wrens
  Masked Dove
  Masked Lapwing
  Malleefowl
  Noisy Pitta
  Ostriches
  Painted Button-quail
  Passenger Pigeon
  Poisonous Bird
  Rainbow Bee-eater
  Red-chested Button-quail
* Rufous-bellied Kookaburra
  Spinifex Pigeon
  Hand-rearing Spinifex Pigeon #1
  Hand-rearing Spinifex Pigeon #2
  Scarlet Robin
  Splendid Fairy-wren
  Starling, Bourbon Crested
  Stubble Quail
  Stubble Quail 2
  Wandering Whistling-duck
  Wood Duck
  Wrens - Keeping and Breeding Fairy-wrens
Wants & Exchange Section
  May 2008
  June 2008
  July 2008
  August 2008
  September 2008
  October 2008
* November 2008
   

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