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Nesting Season: game birds are protected by law during certain months of the year; they may not be killed in the so-called "close seasons". These vary from country to country and from state to state, but usually include nesting season periods. In Britain, "the Glorious Twelfth" - 12 August - opens the grouse-shooting season, which ends again in December.
For i pair of birds use large bird cage or small aviary. Provide with commercial nest. Provide nesting season hair purchased at pet shops, bits of string and yarn, soft, dry grasses, and down feathers; do not use cotton, which becomes entangled in birds' claws; pets arrange nesting season materials to suit themselves. Incubation averages 14 days; begins when full clutch is laid.
Regular diet until eggs hatch.
Provide birds with standard finch nesting season box obtained at pet shops. Place box high up in cage on small top branches of limb. Place bunches of soft, dry, slender grasses in cage; birds select and construct to suit themselves. Many times birds reject artificial nest; will construct nest in crotch of branches; supply with plenty of nesting season material. |
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