BirdCast
BirdCast is a podcast recorded entirely in a live bird aviary or bird environment. The Birdman Dad team strive to bring you new and interesting bird-related content regularly to improve your own aviaries and bird keeping skills set. Birdman Dad has a small YouTube following if you like videos. Co-host Kiah is keen to hear from any interested listeners to join BirdCast -email goosemanki8@gmail.com.
Episodes
73 episodes
Come visit Bird Paradise Singapore!
A special treat for our loyal BirdCast listeners - a special episode for your enjoyment and education!For decades Jurong Bird Park in Singapore held the mantle of the biggest and most impressive bird collection available for viewing and exh...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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8:55
Quarantine in your aviaries and the end of the year with Birdman Dad
For the final episode for 2022 Birdman Dad is having a chat about what he suggests when you receive new birds into his aviaries and what he does regarding quarantine.We wish all our listeners a very safe and merry festive season and a v...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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12:32
The artful glossie black cockatoo
You may (or may not) be aware but there are no glossie black cockatoo homelands in Western Australia AND there are no glossies on public display either.So what do West Aussies do when they want to see a glossie?? Well a group of youth...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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20:19
Aviary building with Birdman Dad
Building aviairies or remodelling existing aviaries can be as much as a hobby as the birds that end up in them. Birdman dad has been building and remodelling aviaries either for himself or helping out other bird keepers with their aviarie...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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9:04
A little bit extra (avian nutrition)
It's spring and your avairy kept birds need to have a varied diet to keep healthy and support their babies. Listen in for some hints and tips on products that can be helpful in keeping your birds in top health.
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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7:24
Creating neutral territory for aviary birds
Some aviary birds need extra attention when it comes to new introductions - especially several species of finches. Today Birdman Dad is going to share with you, amongst some other ideas, how you can create a finch introduction space.Bir...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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7:28
Bird Hospital
There are a few essentials you need to have when you have pet birds, one of those is a confinement/hospital/hot box - a small, warm space a pet bird can go when they are unwell.Today's episode discusses these boxes and some suggestions on w...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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15:55
Nest box troubles and unwell birds
Many years ago an old farmer shared with me his realities of having livestock; he reassured me that even though it was saddening (and at times devastating emotionally and to lineage genetics) that if you are involved with living things, then in...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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10:00
A grass parrot coloured like a rainbow - the beautiful scarlet chested parrot.
The scarlet chested parrot would have to be one of the most colourful small parrots of Australia; a little parrot ,hat like the budgie , has found itself living in the most unusual places throughout the world. What was once a common bird ...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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13:50
Birding Garden - wild birds making the best of what aviculturists have on offer.
Birdman Dad is back this week - talking about what he is up to with his pet birds but also the little gems of wild bird life he gets to glimpse and be part of because he keeps pet birds.And he is learning all the time!As well as chattin...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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10:57
Bird gardening - plants that are great for your birds
There is great nutrition, enrichment and usefulness is all sorts of plants for aviary, companion, rescue and zoo living birds - in fact so many plants are so good for every bird's health and general wellbeing. But sadly many bird owners a...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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28:09
Necessity is the mother of invention... even if it takes a while
Some items in Birdman Dad's aviaries have been in need of a change for some time and this winter it has happened - a bit like the automatic watering system in the summer - it just takes a while to get things sorted, especially during the past f...
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12:04
Snap shot of making a glass change
In response to listener requests today BirdCast is presenting a very brief review of what people can do to help birds with regards to their existing glass windows and glass pool fencing. This is a real snap shot of what you can do - j...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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2:23
Solid Air - how to save millions of wild birds in Australia
"We are their only, hope, and I am confident we will make our windows safe for birds because it is the right thing to do." Dr Daniel Klem Jnr, 2021.This is the third episode concerning the very large conservation issue of wild bir...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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26:59
Solid Air - how to save millions of wild birds Pt2
As stunning and useful our glass windows, doors and pool fencing is; it conceals a dark secret - annually it is killing millions of our beautiful, free flying wild birds.. and that's a conservative estimate.Help be part of effective change ...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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21:03
Solid Air - how to save billions of wild birds Pt1
Today's episode (Part1) is a plea to humans of our world to change what they are doing for the sake - and lives - of all wild birds. And everyone can take part - with somewhat reasonable ease - to alter their own solid air and literally save bi...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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31:05
Helping keep your aviary birds happy and healthy
Your pets need regular care to maintain their health.BirdMan Dad explains how he keeps his scarlet chested parrots (Neophema splendida) happy and healthy.Hopefully one of his suggestions will help you and your own avairy birds.I...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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11:06
Limiting rust in metal aviaries
Today's episode is in response to a listener question...."How do I stop my outdoor metal aviairy rusting?"Hope the episode gives this listener, and anyone else with a metal aviary, some ideas on how to limit rust occuring or how...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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16:21
Out of Step - when your aviaries just aren't suiting your birds anymore.
Even the best aviaries in the world can become outdated (in product options) and no longer servicing appropriately the birds kept within them. New advancements in available products are always on the go and sometimes the species of bird y...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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14:51
Let's go
** How can we express our shock at the events of Thursday 24th February 2022? Birdcast has a loyal group of listeners from Ukraine and our thoughts are with them, their families and their avian family (as well as other innocent animals) d...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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10:17
Back in the aviary
BirdCast has come back to visit the naretha aviaries but not to talk about naretha bluebonnet parrots instead the cleaning of the aviaries and some hints and tips on nest box and general aviary management.If you keep aviary birds yourself y...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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9:21
Birding in the Great Western Woodlands
You don't even need to leave Australian shores to find natural wonders that exist nowhere else on planet Earth.The Great Western Woodlands of south western Australia is a place of temperate forest that exists no where else and it is massive...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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16:06
Feeling the heat
Wow summer has sure burst into Western Australia this season. The Christmas week was unbelievably hot and there's been a few more days since and no doubt many more to come.All birds no matter where they live in this part of WA will be...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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7:26
Cooking up a bird cake
Join BirdCast as they cook up a festive treat for their parrots and finches; this cake is a favourite choice and enjoyed by all the feathered friends who are lucky enough to receive it!Let BirdCast know if you have your own ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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21:16
Famous for all the wrong reasons
Welcome back to BirdCast after our covid19 break!We launch off today with a Citizen Science Project.. the hunt for the black throated finch (Poephila cincta) (southern subspecies).. in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland....
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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30:30