Hi from Shanlung, Tinkerbell and Riamfada

[shanlung]

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C'est une histoire d'amour de moi et de mon Tinkerbell, un avion Congo perroquet gris d'Afrique ACG, comme nous l'itinérance sur les montagnes et les forêts et les villes de Taiwan. Elle aime aller à l'équitation avec moi sur la moto comme elle l'a assis sur une perche sur le guidon.

Plus tard, Shama Yingshiong s'est joint à moi.

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

Plus de détails et que de plus sont dans cette page Web, de concert avec les URL à Flickr les dossiers de centaines de photos. Sans ces photos, ce que j'ai écrit ne sera jamais cru

Maintenant, je suis dans le Sultanat d'Oman et en prenant soin de Riamfada, l'ACG qui a été donné à moi.


Il existe deux dernières entrées de journal que vous trouverez peut-être intéressant avec des photos et noyé dans la
There are two recent journal entries that you might find interesting and with photos embedded in it  


Riam Siefa à la plage de vol à moi sur le sable des dunes contre raideur transversale vent
Riam at Siefa beach flying up to me on sand dune against stiff cross wind

shanlung: Oman a remporté la Coupe du Golfe 19e / / Riamfada sortie à Yiti / Seifa plages / / Katie's premier "présent" pour nous



Ramadan & Kitties on beach// Chess -1st Saturday IM Tournament // Tinkerbell Harness for Piper
shanlung: Ramadan & Kitties on beach// Chess -1st Saturday IM Tournament // Tinkerbell Harness for Piper




Last time to beach for Dommie // Cats at home //3 days 2 nights at Turtle Beach Resort
shanlung: Last time to beach for Dommie // Cats at home //3 days 2 nights at Turtle Beach Resort











 

Comme avec tous les histoire d'amour, il est heureux et triste.

Je vis une vie pleinement avec flighted oiseaux. Peut-être que vous pourriez
à essayer aussi.

Ce qui concerne les plus chaudes

Shanlung
山 龍

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9




This is a love story of me and my Tinkerbell, a free flying Congo African Grey parrot CAG , as we roamed about the mountains and forests and cities of Taiwan. She loves to go riding with me on the motorbike as she sit on a perch on the handle bar.

Later on shama Yingshiong joined me.

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

Full details of that and more are in that webpage, together with URLs to the relevant Flickr folders of hundreds of photos. Without those photos, what I wrote will never be believed

Now I am in Oman and taking care of Riamfada, a CAG who was given to me.

As with all love story, it is happy and sad.

I live a life with fully flighted birds.  Perhaps you might
like to try that too.

Warmest regards
Shanlung
山 龍

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

[shanlung]

Nakhal and Rustaq with friends

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/107691.html







Warmest regards

 

Shanlung

山 龍

 

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[FRABER]

What a beautiful gift for new year than to see you back among us!!! :bravo:
I am delighted to read again the adventures of Riamfada!!!
Welcome back!!!
 :soleil:

[cococharlotte]

Wow, it's amazing ! And what a pleasure to see all your photos, they are beautiful especially those  of Oman. I' ve got a question : whats sort of bird is Riamfada (excuse me for my ignorance  :rose: )? Thanks for all

[shanlung]

Thank you my French friends,

I am sad the original thread was lost together with so much of what was written. Especially what I wrote here on Yingshiong.
It is good to be back here again.  

cococharlotte,

Riamfada is a wild caught Congo African Grey.  She had one of her wings cut by her former owner but she flew away.  She was found by a lady and given into my care in October 2008.


With my son in Budapest and Amsterdam // Setting the foundations for Riamfada's future

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/108450.html


 


Katie & Dommie at Buwah//Good to be a cowardly wimpy traveller

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/108721.html










Warmest regards

Shanlung
山 龍

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[cococharlotte]

Oh, I'm sorry I wanted to talk about the second bird with a black head, he looks beautiful !

[shanlung]

Oh, I'm sorry I wanted to talk about the second bird with a black head, he looks beautiful !

That little bird is a male white-rumped shama, one of the best songbird in the world.  Shama lived in the forests and bushes of South East Asia.










Shama Yingshiong was caught from the jungle when he was 3 years old and was given to me when he was 5 years old. You can see from the daily blog I kept that he flew to me on recall within a month. Breeders of 4 decades of experience with shamas told me my photos are the first ever of a male shama landing on a human. I just think none of them thought of ever trying in the first place. And they had not met that birdwhisperer of Tsaoling that inspired me that much.

You can see how I adapted what I wrote in Tinkerbll Legacy to work with a shama instead.

I kept a diary, on a day by day, that showed the training so that he accept me as a friend.

The most important part is that I treated him with respect and dignity due to a sentient being and I accepted that he is my equal.



Shama Yingshiong was given to the Jurong Bird Park in May 2006. When I went back to see Yingshiong one year later in Jurong Bird Park, Yingshiong remembered me. You can read that in
Part 6 - Yingshiong & Tinkerbell - A good closure April 2008
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2008/04/

I have a deep soft spot in my heart for Yingshiong my beautiful feisty shama song bird. I still could not bring myself to write of his final handover to Jurong Bird Park.


After you finished my chronicles of YS, you cannot but accept that a tiny bird like him is also a sentient being.

You can hear him in these recordings.

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/shamasong.html

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/shamasong2.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b56Bqb3tEE

Here are some of his videos

The intermediate recall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHebpK3_qOQ

Yingshiong intermediate recall II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6ASq9Et3M


When I decided YS is to go back into his flightroom so Ivan the cat can be out, I just signal with my hand and tell YS ' go back'. You can see this sequence here, where YS flew back to his flight room and into his cage at my cue.


Yingshiong flies back on command
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMbbxjjJqs

The last video was most amusing to me. People in shama forums wrote out that it would be very bad to let shama out of the cage as hours had to be spend chasing the shama with nets to get him back to the cage and will stress the bird bady.

I told them then all I need was to ask YS to go back to his cage. The screams and hoots of laughter at my note was hilarious to me.

So I got my wife to shot that video of YS flying back and into his cage. You noticed no food reward given for that either. A deafening silence was the reply from all who had earlier hooted and laughed at me.


Shama are insectivores. So I tried to replicate their diet with much advice from people.

YS main diet will be the Yingshiong Mash I made, with TInkerbell Mash as key ingredient.

The insects I gave him are crickets, Suris (Pycnoscelus surinamensis), freshly molted meal worms and what I called as 'millis'.

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YSM - Read "making of Yingshiong mash"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/27948.html

suri - Read "Conditioning clicker day 3 - and some tips on suris"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/30810.html

milli - read "Found the perfect treat and Yingshiong first "step up""
http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/34432.html


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People talked about gut loading the insects before feeding to birds. I talked about tissue loading of insects as well. The insects are only as good as the food you feed them with.

Folks in some bird forums were mighty displeased when I said I feed my roaches and crickets and millis better than many feed their birds and parrots. I felt they were annoyed as that was truly the case.

I used Tinkerbell mash to feed those insects. together with. What YS did not eat of his YS mash were given the next day to those insects so they will have yummy guts and yummy tissue which go back into Yingshiong.

If you have a good look into the main web page in my signature
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/
you will find the starting point to Yingshiong. I will add that here as well.

Start point of Yingshiong
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2005/10/




Warmest regards

Shanlung
山 龍

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[cococharlotte]

He's wonderfull. I'm laughing because I was hearing your bird on You tube and when my youyou (Marcel) started to imitate it.... with his  voice, it was awfull ! But he's still trying on !
I hope you understand my English, I spent son many years whthout using it :oops:  Sorry for all myy mistakes and thank you for all those interesting informations.

[shanlung]

Folks,
Thank you for being companions and sharing our lives here.
I think folks will be pleased with either of these two families and Riam will be well looked after and loved when we have to part.

Mohammed family visit Riamfada // Visit to Harry and his emus
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/108873.html



Harry, Jabris & Suleiman will all meet at my villa this Thursday 21 Jan at 630pm to see the cooking of Tinkerbell Mash Batch 7

Haiti // Visit to Jabri family

See the incredible intelligence of Riam in a difficult flight here

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/109280.html





Riamfada free flights at Buwah

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/109482.html



Warmest regards

Shanlung
山 龍

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[shanlung]

Idiot kitties // Riamfada free flights at home and outside villa
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/109794.html





Morning with Harry & the decision// Sultan of Oman Palace// Tinkerbell Mash Batch 7

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/109957.html





Warmest regards

Shanlung
山 龍

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[piloui]

Merci pour ces belles photos et les nouvelles !
S

[shanlung]

I now have another bird, a Greater Green Leaf Bird. I call him LiBai



Charlie and clicker training - beyond touch target //LiBai on finger and in slow motion videos
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/126488.html

Slow mo videos // Li Bai in touch target , beyond touch target and cued slow mo recalls & Ivan
shanlung: Slow mo videos // Li Bai in touch target , beyond touch target and cued slow mo recalls & Ivan


LiBai metabolic rate and graduation
shanlung: LiBai metabolic rate and graduation






    In defence of chicken feed // LiBai // Shama singing competition at Bishan
shanlung: In defence of chicken feed // LiBai // Shama singing competition at Bishan

[ENZORAUNA]

It is always with great pleasure that I watch your videos. Your job with your many birds is truly impressive. Libai is part of a large family of birds undoubtedly happy.

[daniel adrian]

Thank you for your photos & videos.
It's a very beautiful and unusual bird

Daniel

[shanlung]

Thank you

So much more fun with flighted birdie, and their wings sheer beauty to behold.











shanlung: Events that happened // LiBai flights in apartment



shanlung: Tinkerbell -Summer of 2011 // Ivan and LiBai // LiBai voilational flights to me