Pictures OF Serinti Birds Taken When I Was In Brunei Darulsalam !!!

A newbie from Tenom, Sabah wanted me to republish the pictures of Serinti birds that have very similar characteristics of AF. The only thing is that they build their nests using grass twigs plus their saliva.

If you want to see them much clearer double click on all the pictures posted on this page.

You can keep these pictures for your reference and please use them for your information purposes.

The Serinti, if you are a positive thinker, can help you to increase the number of AF in your area. The idea is to use them as the foster parents of AF babies.

You can either replace their eggs with AF eggs or with AF babies that you incubate using an incubator.

Once the young AF take their flight they will never behave the same as those Serinti. So if you can cross foster say 500 birds a seasons, you can easily have at least 10 to 20% into your BH (subject to your BH design and smell).

Remember Serinti have no echolocation ability while AF do have. As such Serinti will not be able to fly in the dark house. So they will not colonise your BH, may be the outside roof. So if you are smart you built some areas for those Serinti to occupy the external part of your BH (for you to carry out cross fostering) while the internal is for those saliva nests producers (your white gold).

For more details you may want to read these articles that I wrote sometime ago.

http://swiftletfarming.blogspot.com/2008/02/cross-fostering-of-grass-swiftlets-with.html

http://swiftletfarming.blogspot.com/2008/09/met-someone-who-is-active-in-cross.html

If you need any AF eggs please let me know. I need at least one months to find them.

I might be able to arrange for your cross fostering activities. Call me for help at 017 7551318

All the above pictures were taken at a Car Park in an apartment in Brunei.