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Hi, Gerard. These are our residents. We are a companion bird sanctuary. Each bird here has some kind of story behind what brought them to this place. Our goal is to give them as much freedom as we can while still giving them care and safety. Eventually we hope to have them all living in large aviaries where they can live as a flock and fly together.

Thanks! Actually it's very loud if we use the natural "sound track"! It's hard to believe that the aviary has been in place for what will soon be 3 years! I hope to get some time to make a new updated video. We've changed the decor quite a bit. The floor is now a hard floor which is easier to clean. The papers were messy and they just chewed through them, which meant cleaning the floor beneath anyway. We also have added a lot of natural branches to the aviary, along with other features. The birdbath (hanging wooden frame with plastic "bowl" near the center of the structure) died very early in the game. It was designed for songbirds. We are going to order some metal and glass ones. We also have added more ways to feed and most recently, a fountain. I will try to get a new video up as soon as the workload here permits!

Mine gets fresh tree grass every day in spring summer if illnes from outside yes its a risk but green as food as playground as vitamin as looking forward to, good life illnes can uppersit, bee from indoor life's some breeders here uses special indoor lights as u v light, if birds don't get sun, i give oranges, offers fruit or green, or grown corn 24 in water, corn then, grow in soil or else,

Marden's Ark May lord help you complete this magnificent journey and all of these poor souls as well.I will pray to give them life and energy and some day i want to help you guys who desperately need help and remember you are not alone.

You'd have saved a fortune just converting the room without adding the caging. We have two large entirely interior rooms used for birds---and a bathroom a Congo tried to destroy so it is armored, LOL. We use almost exclusively natural branches, so our cost is reduced to a few screws. If there is space outside the window, perhaps move the half of this without a door there with some perches so they can come and go from fresh air and daylight. Our hen house is its own climate controlled structure with windows opening into a 500 sq ft open air aviary with foraging garden, fountain, etc. You can probably take most of what you've already done and do something similarly enriching. :)

Buddy actually was like "Whoo hoo!!! WOMEN!" We call him "Casanova" - he's romanced every female in there at one time or another. He's our proof that not every bird follows that "monogamy" rule. Heheh.

Cynthia Cannon This special moment is always remembered by them and those who wants them to get a good experience can see a heart melt full experience and where everywhere they were they were saved by the lord himself that give these little ones a wonderful and marvelous home by two caring people.

Wow! It has been a long time. Much has changed. There's a hard floor in there now. And more budgies and cockatiels!

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It was about $2500 for both of them (they retail for $1499 each) so we got a good deal. They absolutely deserve it. We try to give them as much space and autonomy as we possibly can.

Don't feel bad! It's easy to provide lots of good enrichment to keep your budgies happy and healthy. If you want tips on enrichment for budgies, or information on keeping a flighted budgie safe, feel free to PM us!

Finches are sweet little birds. I hope some day you can have an aviary. It's amazing to spend time with them in a setting where they are free to interact - or not - as they wish. Wear a hat, though, lol.

Thank you! This flight is actually made from two 5' x 7' flight cages from Natural Inspirations Parrot Cages (naturalinspirationsparrotcages.com/products/walk-in-aviary-large-110-x-62-x-80). The end section of each is curved, and makes up approximately 6" of length so you lose about 1' when you remove those curved sections to bolt the two together, but it's still a very large enclosure.

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Heather White What do you mean?

At the time, the floor was carpet (ugh!) and a pain to keep clean. We put down paper but it got chewed up, blown around and the carpet was a mess. We ripped it out and replaced it with a very smooth durable hard flooring that we can scrape, sweep, vacuum and mop. MUCH nicer! You can see the new flooring in the newer videos.

It's such a spectacular space... I love to see birds being able to fly... it's the main thing they are meant to do .

We have replaced the floor with hard floor, we use rags to wipe surfaces, a broom, shop vac and scraper to clean the floor. Toys and perches that can come out easily go through the dishwasher.

naturalinspirationsparrotcages.com/products/walk-in-aviary-medium-86x62x80 - it's actually two of these. The brand name is Centurion. We took the backs off of both and attached them to each other to make one large 7' x 9' flight.

Currently 8 cockatiels and 51 budgies.

We used to put down papers as the floor was carpeted. It was a NIGHTMARE as the papers blew all over when the birds flew. Now we've replaced the carpet with hard floor. We sweep up with a shop vac or broom, scrape the floor and mop with wet mop and a steam mop. Karrie, of Natural Inspirations (the company that sells them) uses some kind of large rolls of paper under hers. I will see if I can get her to post here to give more information.

Thank yo so much for such detailed information. Stay blessed.

And you as well!

Yes. Sadly humans feel they have the right to take possession of whatever they see. Unfortunately, these little birds are not able to make it on their own in the wild, and returning them to the wild would be abandoning them to a cruel fate. Hopefully someday the mills will stop churning them out for a profit and humans will realize birds were meant to remain in the sky. Until then, we do what we can to give them as good a life as we can provide. At least in an aviary setting, they have autonomy to be the birds they desire to be, to form bonds, live as a flock and enjoy the social life that budgies were born to live.

Yep. If people didn't buy birds, then they wouldn't be bred for our "enjoyment', seeing them imprisoned for the rest of their lives in often too small cages for them to even fly in.

We will be adding toys and crepe myrtle branches very soon at our yearly "cagescaping" party, and will post a video!

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kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJxkqK2Wy5PKYIk.html Today was a perfect day (in between storms) to cut the full blooms off the crape myrtle and turn the aviary into a jungle! This will last MAYBE a day before they have the branches stripped!

Yes! Our way of saying "thanks" to those who made this possible!

naturalinspirationsparrotcages.com/products/walk-in-aviary-medium-86x62x80 - choose the 1/2" bar spacing. Note: ours is TWO of these, we removed the back of both and put them together. This involved a bit of adjusting and a few bits of hardware that were not included (long screws with bolts to fasten them to each other) but it's really easy to do. Putting it together was fairly easy with most of it (except the roof) being a 1 man job!

Thanks.

This was two medium size cages (5' x 7') combined to make one 9' x 7'. Each one was listed at $1499, but because we are a rescue, we got them at a significant discount plus free shipping.

Well, there is room to add more panels if you want to donate some! :P

The cage you had them in when you were bringing the down stairs, that cage was extremely small for all those birds

Ahh! I am sorry, I thought you were making a joke about the aviary being too small for the flock! That cage was for TRANSPORTATION only. I promise you they were not all living in that cage! In their quarantine room, they were in six small cages of 4 birds to a cage. Obviously not acceptable. We actually cobbled five of the cages together to form "the maze" where all the flock could be together. These birds were our second group of birds rescued and at the time we had to take baby steps. They were surrendered from a hoarding-type situation and brought to Marden's Ark in August 2014 and we worked diligently to have them flying again by Christmas eve 2014. I agree, that cage was extremely small and in reality, unless your bird is out every day, too small for even one bird because they don't have room to "fly" any more than short hops from perch to perch, and that is simply not sufficient exercise. Our end goal is to have all non-handicapped birds living in flocks in year-round outdoor aviaries. But that takes time and funds. Please check out our website: www.avianrefuge.org or our FB page: facebook.com/mardensark for more information and to see how these little guys are doing two years later! All but one (who sadly passed of a heart attack) are still alive and thriving. :)

Ok that's good lucky birds to be in such a big cage!