BREEDING FOCUS: Port Lincolns
MY PORT Lincolns (Barnardius zonarius) are housed in a 15ft long aviary in my breeding facility. On one side, they have a group of eight pairs of budgerigars that I breed on a colony basis and on the other there is a pair of Australian kings (Alisterus scapularis). All my aviaries are double wired with a 2in gap so that birds cannot fight their neighbours. In fact, as budgerigars and Australian kings are generally gentle birds, there is very little interaction with the Port Lincolns.
The aviary block has two-thirds of the roof covered in glass-fibre roofing sheets and the birds have been in this aviary for eight years. Their flight is covered in 17G ¾in × ¾in weld mesh and the pair seem really happy with the facilities. The
