upatsix.com - Your Source For Pet Bird Information

Please people, for the love of God, don't turn this site into an Auction Site. Yes I was the one who wrote the latest person trying to turn this site into an auction (E-Bay for Birds) site and if you enjoy having the best information available for our birding industry, equipment, and yes even sometimes we sell-trade-or otherwise share an oversupply of our breeder birds & babies between ourselves, THEN DON'T RUIN IT!

Its bad enough we have folks like PETA and groups that don't understand our "ethics" when it comes to caged birds. Then there are those folks who go overboard by stating as their mission, to eliminate any pets what so ever. You see these folks are just looking for ammunition to use against us and if we fail to police our own "ethically" we will see a downfall of sites like this and aviculture in general.

Ads for a licensed "Auction" like those posted by our friend Kansas City Finch man is 'LEGAL" because they are licensed by the federal, state and local municipality from where that auction originates. If you make up your auction and originate here YOU ARE PUTTING DAEMON AND KIRSTEN AT RISK! This is not a licensed auction site for live animals!

Our "ethics" are found under the American Federation of Aviculture, some of us are members and others just prescribe to their ethical standards. One of which is no auctions, not to the highest bidder. We have advertised a price at which we will sell, but not only about price, it is to be the best situation 'FOR THE BIRD." Of course we negotiate this price but the almighty dollar is not the consideration alone.

My grandfather use to tell me stories about when he sold birds back at the turn of the century (1800's to 1900's) that people were buying them for the feathers they had and not for use as pets (as was his intention to sell) He promptly stopped selling them even during the great depression. I use his stories today when I speak at bird clubs and seminars trying to educate our fellow Aviculturists to understand that we at war right now with these anti's that would very much like to see us go away and our birds taken away from us.

Ad to that the effects of CITES http://www.cites.org/ which has cost us dearly in the amount of new blood lines coming into our country. So we must make do with what we have here right now because this is all we will have for the next generation.

We should be wise in our conduct with the public and not appear like we are some kind of bird brokers or exploitationists, appear above reproach, and employ some kind of a scientific context to what we do, or we may wind up owning a bunch of cages with nothing in them.