New Home for Heavenly Aviary

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=203 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="971e4e43.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="111300e42egerdp.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Cherane Pefley's Heaven On Earth Avian Acre</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cherane Pefleys Heaven On Earth Avian Ac"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aviary on Acacia "><U>Aviary on Acacia   </U></A></div> <div> <B>New Home for Heavenly Aviary</B><B> and Blue Headed Macaws.</B></div> <div> <B>Driveway leading to my new Agricultur HEAVEN ON EARTH AVIAN ACRE with Palm Beach County giving one acre classification to my exotic birds for their domain.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I bought this sight house and two acres site unseen after I made the decision not to move to my ten acres I own in Indian River County.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We are on two acres and in area</B> <B>of animal lovers.   I can watch the horses jump while I clean after my birds.</B></div> <div> <B>Thus far, since June 2007, I have planted close to two hundres (200) SeaGrapes bushes, twenty (20) gauva trees as hedge, 11 Wax Myrtles Trees and 15 gauva TWENTY FOOT AND LARGER TREES.</B></div> <div> <B>15  mature Bottle Brush Tree's like the one in below picture with Xena in the background, 4 Lady Shady mature tree's,  All others have been brought to this property from my  Orchid Island Beach House in Vero Beach, Florida.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I and my feather heads, dogs and cats LOVE this Loxahatchee Groves, FL. </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                         </FONT><B>    My  driveway to my house  after I planted the Royal Palm Trees.      One of the eleven mature Bottle Brush Trees I planted..  My hedge goes around my property.   Hedges are cherry tree bushe and Seagrape bushes, including Wax Myrtle.     Many pictures of our new home  </B><A HREF="#here" TITLE="New Home for Heavenly Aviary"><U><B>here</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1127c9010.jpg" border=0 width="457" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1129a0ea0.jpg" border=0 width="416" height="234" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Our new arrivals to Heavenly Aviary October 7,2007</B></div> <div> <B>Blue Headed Macaws waiting to get out of quarantine.   Valentino, Greta  and  Sheena.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>1. Taxonomy</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1.1 Class: Aves</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1.2 Order: Psittaciformes</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1.3 Family: Psittacidae</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1.4 Genus: Ara</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Species: </B></I><I><B>Ara couloni </B></I><I><B>(Sclater, 1876)</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1.5 Scientific synonyms: </B></I><I><B>Propyrrhura couloni </B></I><I><B>(Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Living</B></div> <div> <B>institution</B><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="WCSWildlife-Regular" ><B>s</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>WCS’s system of</B></div> <div> <B>wildlife parks leads</B></div> <div> <B>the world in the care</B></div> <div> <B>of animals and staff</B></div> <div> <B>dedication to animal</B></div> <div> <B>enrichment, science,</B></div> <div> <B>and exhibitry.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Wildlife Survival Center in Georgia,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>a new bird facility was affectionately named</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>in honor of St. Catherines Island Foundation President</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>and longtime WCS Trustee Frank “Yoke”</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Larkin. The new Yoke Aviary has 11 interconnected</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>breeding yards, and it currently houses vulturine</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>guinea fowl, crestless fireback pheasants,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>and buff-crested bustards.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Wildlife Survival Center also celebrated</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>the first captive hatching in North America of the</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>blue-headed macaw. Our population is the only</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>captive group in the United States. Little is known</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>about this “mini-macaw,” which occurs in small,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>scattered groups in the western Amazon Basin,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>eastern Peru, and northwestern Bolivia. We are</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>developing a program with field biologists in Peru</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>to investigate the birds’ ecological requirements.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And in late spring, the center became the first</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>AZA institution to hatch the Burmese star tortoise, which has</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>been designated one of the world’s top 25 most endangered turtles</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>by the Turtle Conservation Fund due to the escalating demand</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>to supply Asian food markets and the illegal pet trade".</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1123db160.jpg" border=0 width="475" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="1125c0fc0.jpg" border=0 width="448" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="111a97e50.jpg" border=0 width="407" height="229" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                     <IMG SRC="111ea4ec0.jpg" border=0 width="420" height="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Our new arrival December is SHEENA , female B lue Headed Macaw</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1134f65b0.jpg" border=0 width="502" height="347" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                                    <IMG SRC="1133e20f0.jpg" border=0 width="482" height="271" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Kitto is my new family member and companion to Xena, another GSD.</B>   <IMG SRC="113757520.jpg" border=0 width="343" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    </div> <div> <B>Across the road from me.     </B>                                                         <B>  STEVE AND KITTO.  </B></div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> Click on Xena's photo for video of her treeing the raccoon.  Nothing is going to get past her to our featherheads.  Now, Xena has Kitto to protect Xena and visa versa, unless of course, I decide to get another GSD.  chuckles..</div> <div> XENA   Standing Gurard       have a look at the video of Xena and the Raccoon   goto:  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hyacinthmacaws.net/cheranevideos" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hyacinthmacaws.net/cheranevid"><U><B>XENA</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://hyacinthmacaws.net/cheranevideos" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://hyacinthmacaws.net/cheranevideos"><U><IMG SRC="11183e680.jpg" border=0 width="574" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="here"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="id243.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Snail Trail Aviary"><U><B>Snail Trail Aviary</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>