ATTENTION:If you live in South Africa and have found an orphaned mousebird baby and need advice on what to feed, wean and care for it you can contact:
Email: willibi@absamail.co.za
OR
Please call Barry: 0834434913
Fallen Feathers Avian Rehabilitation Centre
Gauteng, for help with wild indigenous birds only, in South Africa. all hours.
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Wings In Need: Rehabilitation of Wild Birds This site has treatment and care guides and a photo gallery of recognizing species of baby birds.
http://www.wingsinneed.org.za/
I've also added a FORUM to the menu above, which you can post in detail, and include pix's of the mousebird.
Email: willibi@absamail.co.za
OR
Please call Barry: 0834434913
Fallen Feathers Avian Rehabilitation Centre
Gauteng, for help with wild indigenous birds only, in South Africa. all hours.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wings In Need: Rehabilitation of Wild Birds This site has treatment and care guides and a photo gallery of recognizing species of baby birds.
http://www.wingsinneed.org.za/
I've also added a FORUM to the menu above, which you can post in detail, and include pix's of the mousebird.
Mousebird Breeders/Keepers
Davis-Lund Aviaries
Kateri Davis
Email: dlaviaries@aol.com
Species: White-Backed, Red-Faced, Blue-Naped, Speckled
Location: Creswell, OR
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/davislundaviaries/home/mousebirds
Mousebirds in Aviculture: A great book available exclusively about Mousebirds http://sites.google.com/site/birdhousepublications/Mousebirds-In-Aviculture
Beaks Birdhouse
Jason Crean
Email: BeaksBirdhouse@aol.com
Species: White-Backed mousebirds
Location: Close to Chicago, IL
Website: www.beaksbirdhouse.com
Fumi Takeda
Email: birdland5950@yahoo.com
Species: Red-Faced mousebirds
Location: Clarkston, MI
Sally Huntington
Email: sallych@san.rr.com
Species: White-Backed mousebirds
Location: San Diego, CA
Al Morales
Email: almdkm@hypermall.net
Species: White-Backed, Red-Faced, Blue-Naped mousebirds
Location: Denver, CO
Pippin’s Roost Exotics
Paula Strasser
Email: mstoucan@aol.com
Species: Blue-naped, Speckled mousebirds
Location: Fallbrook, CA
Website: http://www.pippinsroost.com/
Susanne Russo
Email: mousebird.mama@gmail.com
Species: Speckled, White-Backed, Blue-Naped, Red-Faced
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Online Mousebird Albums: http://s525.photobucket.com/home/Mousebirds-and-more/allalbums
Rick Carter
Email: rick.carter71@yahoo.com
Species: White-Backed mousebirds
Location: Caldwell, ID
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This site has a great E-zine on South african birds: www.thebirderonline.com
You can do a Google search and find many interesting sites about Mousebirds. For photo’s do an Image search. Below are just a few interesting links… Use eywords such as Mousebird Behavior bring up some interesting links
Speckled: http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/Bird%20spp%20lists/Msebirds.html
White-Backed: http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/birdpgs/425WBMsb.html
Red-faced: http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/birdpgs/426RFMsb.html
GREAT SITE, with a lot of info: http://www.lynxeds.com/family-text/hbw-6-family-text-coliidae-mousebirds
Jim’s Collection, Mousebirds: http://members.cox.net/jgintz/Mousebirds/birds.html
Biodiversity site, with mousebird info: http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/birds/coliidae/
Softbills For Sale, Mousebird Article: http://www.softbillsforsale.com/articles/mousebirds.asp
From Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousebird
Excellent info of in the wild:http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/grze_09/grze_09_00607.html
An African gardening site with a list of safe and toxic plants in a garden for mousebirds: http://www.gardeningeden.co.za/gardening-wildlife.html
Anatomical and Nuritional Adaptions of the Speckled Mousebird
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4089605
Mousebird Videos on the internet:
Blue-naped:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/blue-naped-mousebird-urocolius-macrourus
Red-faced:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/red-faced-mousebird-urocolius-indicus
White-backed:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/white-backed-mousebird-colius-colius
Speckled:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/speckled-mousebird-colius-striatus
Red-backed: http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/red-backed-mousebird-colius-castanotus
White-headed:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/white-headed-mousebird-colius-leucocephalus
YouTube Videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPklBhr2fjU&feature=related
While on vacation you can visit zoos and sometimes see mousebirds. Many of the larger zoos may have one or more species of mousebirds that you can view in nice natural settings. In Florida we are lucky to have Sea World, which has aviaries in Discovery Cove. Below are a couple of links I found showing some of the mousebirds there.
Discovery Cove:http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=27096399&postcount=454
Google search of images:http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4IRFC_enUS359US360&q=Discovery%20Cove%20mousebird&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
On the internet there are some great forums and Yahoo mailing lists that also have topics pertaining to mousebird. NOTE: Many times you will have to subscribe or join to participate in the discussions.
Avian Avenue is a forum that has threads to post to on all species of birds. If you go to the bottom of the forum to ‘Softbill Circle’ you will find several postings about mousebirds.
Mousebirds is a Yahoo group that has several members that have mousebirds.
Davis-Lund Aviaries
Kateri Davis
Email: dlaviaries@aol.com
Species: White-Backed, Red-Faced, Blue-Naped, Speckled
Location: Creswell, OR
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/davislundaviaries/home/mousebirds
Mousebirds in Aviculture: A great book available exclusively about Mousebirds http://sites.google.com/site/birdhousepublications/Mousebirds-In-Aviculture
Beaks Birdhouse
Jason Crean
Email: BeaksBirdhouse@aol.com
Species: White-Backed mousebirds
Location: Close to Chicago, IL
Website: www.beaksbirdhouse.com
Fumi Takeda
Email: birdland5950@yahoo.com
Species: Red-Faced mousebirds
Location: Clarkston, MI
Sally Huntington
Email: sallych@san.rr.com
Species: White-Backed mousebirds
Location: San Diego, CA
Al Morales
Email: almdkm@hypermall.net
Species: White-Backed, Red-Faced, Blue-Naped mousebirds
Location: Denver, CO
Pippin’s Roost Exotics
Paula Strasser
Email: mstoucan@aol.com
Species: Blue-naped, Speckled mousebirds
Location: Fallbrook, CA
Website: http://www.pippinsroost.com/
Susanne Russo
Email: mousebird.mama@gmail.com
Species: Speckled, White-Backed, Blue-Naped, Red-Faced
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Online Mousebird Albums: http://s525.photobucket.com/home/Mousebirds-and-more/allalbums
Rick Carter
Email: rick.carter71@yahoo.com
Species: White-Backed mousebirds
Location: Caldwell, ID
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This site has a great E-zine on South african birds: www.thebirderonline.com
You can do a Google search and find many interesting sites about Mousebirds. For photo’s do an Image search. Below are just a few interesting links… Use eywords such as Mousebird Behavior bring up some interesting links
Speckled: http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/Bird%20spp%20lists/Msebirds.html
White-Backed: http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/birdpgs/425WBMsb.html
Red-faced: http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/birdpgs/426RFMsb.html
GREAT SITE, with a lot of info: http://www.lynxeds.com/family-text/hbw-6-family-text-coliidae-mousebirds
Jim’s Collection, Mousebirds: http://members.cox.net/jgintz/Mousebirds/birds.html
Biodiversity site, with mousebird info: http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/birds/coliidae/
Softbills For Sale, Mousebird Article: http://www.softbillsforsale.com/articles/mousebirds.asp
From Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousebird
Excellent info of in the wild:http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/grze_09/grze_09_00607.html
An African gardening site with a list of safe and toxic plants in a garden for mousebirds: http://www.gardeningeden.co.za/gardening-wildlife.html
Anatomical and Nuritional Adaptions of the Speckled Mousebird
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4089605
Mousebird Videos on the internet:
Blue-naped:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/blue-naped-mousebird-urocolius-macrourus
Red-faced:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/red-faced-mousebird-urocolius-indicus
White-backed:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/white-backed-mousebird-colius-colius
Speckled:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/speckled-mousebird-colius-striatus
Red-backed: http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/red-backed-mousebird-colius-castanotus
White-headed:http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/white-headed-mousebird-colius-leucocephalus
YouTube Videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPklBhr2fjU&feature=related
While on vacation you can visit zoos and sometimes see mousebirds. Many of the larger zoos may have one or more species of mousebirds that you can view in nice natural settings. In Florida we are lucky to have Sea World, which has aviaries in Discovery Cove. Below are a couple of links I found showing some of the mousebirds there.
Discovery Cove:http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=27096399&postcount=454
Google search of images:http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4IRFC_enUS359US360&q=Discovery%20Cove%20mousebird&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
On the internet there are some great forums and Yahoo mailing lists that also have topics pertaining to mousebird. NOTE: Many times you will have to subscribe or join to participate in the discussions.
Avian Avenue is a forum that has threads to post to on all species of birds. If you go to the bottom of the forum to ‘Softbill Circle’ you will find several postings about mousebirds.
Mousebirds is a Yahoo group that has several members that have mousebirds.
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