Meet YingShiong the shama

I now have a shama called YingShiong


The link is in Tinkerbell webpage. I do not think
she will mind it.

In a way, YingShiong is a gift from
Tinkerbell to me. I am keeping a blog
on Yingshiong. That URL take you only
to the first page. Click on 'next day'
to continue to read more.


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

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Writeup in

http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/2005/11/09/

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trust and friendship




http://www.livejournal.com/~shanlung/2005/11/26/

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you starved it right

Douglas,

Try to learn a bit more before you talk. Do you even know what
the weight of a shama is?

Have you ever weighed your shama?

No?



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To the rest of you guys,


You have seen that two months ago, I knew nothing about shama birds other than shama is the most shy and most timid of aviary bird and had never kept shama in my life.

Yingshiong is an old shama as well, not a young bird with the best chances of being tamed or trained or to bond with.

I believe all that you need is the understanding and the respect for your birds and creatures to do what I have done or to do even more than what I have done.

I chose not to be the Master but as an equal with my bird, whether the bird is Tinkerbell or YingShiong.


You decide if I gained, or if I lost in the exchange.


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"Yingshiong first graduation photographs"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/1542477/





YS graduation from flight room to apartment. You see
YS flying to touch target. YS flying to my finger on
pure recall (no waving of food) when cued. Last
sequence showed YS in flurry of wings and legs but
cheating as he did not touch target

Best to use slideshow at 1.6 seconds


Read


http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/36423.html


http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/37171.html




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YS more graduation photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/1549325/




On Saturday Dec 10th, I managed to persuade Yingshiong to
tolerate
my wife Joy inside the flight room to take photos of
us
together.

The shots taken are better than the one I had taken.

There were three sequences of pure recall taken by Joy
standing behind me.

Use slide show at 1.6 to 2 seconds timing

Read the account in

www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/2005/12/10/


Shanlung

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

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If that is the same Douglas from another pet forum, then you ought to get used to it.

Not everyone has mutual respect or self-respect in the first place.

Great patience with your shama and it must take a lot of time. Possible if you do not have many birds, work full hours and have much free time on your hands.

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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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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