Meet YingShiong the shama

New photos of YS hovering






Here are the latest photographs, of YS hovering and taking milli
from my hand. The photographs are
taken with flash to try to freeze his wings in flight.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/1728286/

Write up in
http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/42160.html





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

More Shama Yingshiong songs including his mimic of
Ivan meows

Read writeup in here
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/50861.html


The songs are here
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/shamasong2.html


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

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Shanlung

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

Very Nice Shanglung. I know that it take lots of patience, care and love to train such species...

Regarding weighing scale, in my opinion mostly 'expert' use this..

Mind to share what kind of scale do use and where you buy it?

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Tanin Eh Boon
Malaysia Bird Community

Hi Douglas,

Actually starving a bird (to train) especially very small species like this will not work... the bird will die before he able to learn anything...The method that Shanglung use is more toward 'building trust'... If you treat the bird nice and understand them, sooner or later you will gain her trust and she will fly to you...

p/s: it is not nice to ask a bird keeper/trainer that he/she "starved" the bird/animals ... most of us here keep bird/animals because we love and appreciate them..

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:-)

Getting that scale was a few days exercise when I fumbled around different scales before I finally got it. This showed how that fumbling was like.
http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2005/11/

Below is the link to that report when I finally got that scale and where I got it from. Do try that mutton briyani for the best m b I ever had when you are in that area.

"YingShiong showing off and 0.1 gram accuracy weighing scale"

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/28721.html


Shanlung

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Shama Yingshiong Chapter 1 ending - my last report



To friends of Yingshiong,

I do hope you enjoyed the time that I have spend with
Yingshiong the shama. That a shy timid aviary bird can
indeed bond with one that treat him as equal and
patient and can be a companion bird. That they
deserved more than just being kept in a cage or an
aviary.

Do remember that Yingshiong was old when he came to
me. You need not go and get a young bird to do what we
have done. You can do what I have done or even better
from the reports I left behind.

Perhaps I should not have tried it with Yingshiong at
all. In which case, no one in the world would have
guessed that a shy timid aviary bird is capable of
bonding to be a companion bird. Yingshiong also would
not have rediscovered flight and entralled all of you
with his behaviour , antics , mischief, love, music
and most of all, his magic.

In a few days, I will be working and living in another
part of the world. With the fear of bird flu, it is
obvious I cannot think of taking YS with me. My wife
will not be joining me there as there will be
restrictions on her there that she will not be used
to.

I hope you enjoyed our accounts and will look on your
birds with a different light, be their beaks be hook
or straight.

I am sorry in the short time I have left, I might not
be able to answer any of you. I have many things to
arrange in this short time left. But I do not think it
right for me to go without a word.

You know I yearned to be back with Tinkerbell. This
road I take may lead me indirectly back to her again.

You understand now why I decided not to go ahead and
re-attempt with the harness recently. I knew YS will
be more receptive the second time. But I knew I would
not have the time to follow through. I also had to
test out other parameters if YS is to be looked after
by my wife Joy. I knew there was this coming change
but it was not firm until last night.

*continued in the Live Journal report URL below*

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/58877.html


Shanlung

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

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Shanlung

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

To my friend Shanlung,
Thanks for the valuable knowledge you shared with us in this forum. We may have met up several times but it will be really an eye opener for me to see YingSiong live in action.
All the best to you and hope to see you soon in here after you settled down.


Cheers,
Silvanus

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