Animal World Contributors
Animal-World would like to thank the following contributors for their
invaluable expertise and help with Animal World.
Daniel
Maldonado is a breeder of fancy canaries. He has generously allowed use to use photos of some of his most beautiful birds taken in his aviary, including the Parisian Frill Canary and the Belgian Fancy Canary. Daniel is the webmaster of the Bird Bidder website and you can see more of his wonderful photos of many different canary breeds here, in his Bird Bidder Image Gallery. Enjoy!. Thanks so much for sharing Daniel!
Richard Rolloff, President of the Western Waterslager Club has helped to provide us with a show quality Waterslager Canary. Thank you Richard for your assistance!
Paul R. Scandlyn, is dedicated to the Roller Canary and has provided us with a photo of one of his stars. Paul is also the president of several roller clubs. If you want to know more about these wonderful song birds, here are some of the clubs Paul recommends: Southern California Roller Canary Club, Northwest Roller Canary Club, Western Roller Canary Association, and Oakland International Roller Canary.
Heiko Bleher, has generously contributed pictures of a wild caught Discus and a Millennium Rainbowfish. Thank you Heiko for your enthusiasm and your assistance to Animal-World!
Heiko is dedicated to freshwater aquarium fish. He has discovered (or recovered) approximately 3,000 aquarium fish species since the 1960's.
A leading authority on wild discus, Heiko has recently released his new book Bleher’s Discus, Volume one. With over 600 pages that intensively covers all aspects of these fish and their native home. Also now available is the scientific paper Revision of the Genus Symphysodon Heckel, 1840 (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae)
based on molecular and morphological characters.
Visit his website Aquapress Bleher to see these and all his books!
Mike Evans, a dedicated enthusiast shares the spawning behaviors of his pair of Coral Beauty Angelfish. The photos are truly exciting, be sure to check it out on the Coral Beauty page!
Elizabeth
Lukan Currently
contributing expert reef species writeups including the Galaxy
Coral and Acropora
humilis . Elizabeth Lukan is also the publisher Fish
N Chips newsletter - A great place for hobbyist information on the
latest happenings in the reef world, product reviews, tips, etc.!
Bill Love -
A dedicated reptile enthusiast and professional photographer, Bill has generously allowed us to use his wonderful photos of a variety
of herptiles, which include both lizards and turtles. He also shares his knowledge and images by providing speaking/slide show presentations to groups. To learn more about Bill or to contact him, you can visit his website Blue Chameleon Ventures. Thank you Bill for your contributions!
Ken
Childs -
has generously allowed us to use his wonderful fish photos of a variety
of Loaches and Hillstream
Loaches! Thank you Ken for your contributions!
Marisa
Monaco - shared
photos of her gorgeous discus and her pet loaches. See the Blue
Discus, the Skunk Loach,
and the Clown Loach!
Fish2U.com
- has generously allowed us to use many of their photos for
picture representations of the freshwater fish we have provided information
on. We greatly appreciate there kind consideration in helping us to build
Animal-World!
Cheryl
Galloway - "Boots" and Bottoms",
the Queen of Barvaria Conures, provided to us by Cheryl, were made famous
in a Hagen ad! See them here: Queen
of Bavaria Conures!
Cheryl has been intimately involved with many birds as well as
many other exotic pets for many years. She bred large parrots for 10
years, having about 80 breeding pairs. All these birds were her personal domestic
pets before putting them into a breeding situation.
Cherly is a big contributor to Animal-World with care and information
as well as photos on a variety of the birds and animals that you will
see here. Thanks Cheryl for your photo contributions, and your writing
and research contributions!
Exotic
Birds Unlimited - Diane has contributed a wonderful
picture of "Lola" a female: Cherry-headed
or Red-Masked Conure!
"Exotic Birds Unlimited is located in central
Iowa and breed birds with a focus on health, temperament, and socialization.
We have been breeding and hand raising Parrots for over 5 years now and we are
members of Friends and Feathers and The Mid American Cage Bird Society. We currently
work with Macaws, Cockatoos, African Greys, Amazons, Conures, Quakers, and Cockatiels."
Dea
Garic - Check
out "Yin" and "Yang"! Thanks Dea for contributing
these cute guys pictures! Now we have a page about: Gerbils!
Rose
- Is from Australia, she sent a bit of information and some
wonderful pictures or her pet "Monkey Boy", a:
Ringtail Possum!
Robin
White - Really
helped out! She sent us really cute pictures of "Kisak" and
Suki-da" her pet : Short
Tailed Opossums!
She also contributed some really good information
on keeping these little critters as pets, see her featured pets: Kisak
and Suki-da!
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The
Bird Guy Bruce "The Bird Guy"
McGonigal from Honolulu, shares his wonderful birds not only with
visitors to Hawaii,
...but has contributed pictures of 'Precious',
his beautiful: Citron-crested
Cockatoo
Bruce invites
you to get up-close and personal with the true stars of "The
Bird Guy" - the birds!
Get your "Photos with Aloha!" There are over 18 individual
birds and each one is unique. Thousands of adults and children
alike have enjoyed the many different birds and The Bird guy himself.
Bruce is a warm, sincere, and friendly person that personifies
the Aloho Spirit. He is a proud member of the Hawaii Bird Club.
"The most important thing is to share the expuisite beauty
and personality of these animals with anybody who likes to smile
or wants to learn about them." -Bruce McGonigal
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Jaspal
Singh - Sent
us a beautiful picture of his pet parakeet Sid.
He is a very striking and beautiful: Regent
Parakeet!
Stacey
Speak - Many
thanks to you Stacey for sharing Merlin! Merlin is a: Derbyan
Parakeet!
Tweetery
- Jamie, owner of "The
Tweetery" has contributed several pictures of beautiful birds including
a Lilac-crowned Amazon!
“The Tweetery” (using its catch phrase, “This Place Is
For The Birds”) opened in June 2004 as a new and rather unique bird
store. The store is owned by Jamie Wertz and his friend of over 33 years,
Andy Tackett.
Frank Wertz (a.k.a.
Jamie to most of his friends) has owned and operated The Tweetery
Aviary out of his home on Queen Anne for over twenty years. Selling
his birds and doing several birds shows a year, he has built quite a reputation
for the quality and colors of his birds. He primarily raises American and
English Budgies (which most people refer to as parakeets), cockatiels, lovebirds,
green cheek conures and parrotlets.
George
Johnson & Jack Stallard
- Sent a wonderful pictures and information on Miss Evan their:
Yellow-naped Amazon
They also shared her awesome aviary and pictures of some of her macaw
bird friends, see them on her page: Miss
Evan
Kym
Johnson - Contributed
wonderful pictures and great information on their cute Southern Flying
Squirrel: Tinkerbell!
Parrot
Haven - Lisa Umstead
of Parrot Haven has contributed pictures of her beautifull hybrid macaws:
"Jaydn" a Milicinth
Macaw and "April"
a Camelot Macaw. She has also provided pictures of a variety of other
birds. Thank you Lisa!
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Parrot
Haven was developed in July of 1999, as part of the
Rescue Operation of Parrot Fancier's Club.
Parrot Haven co-founders
Lisa Umstead and husband Dennis Umstead spend time with feathered
friends at the bird sanctuary, which is located at their home
in Lindenhurst LI. The shelter, which takes in injured and homeless
parrots whose owners no longer want them, was developed in July
1999, as part of the rescue operations of the Parrot Fancier’s
Club of Amityville. About 20 birds are usually in residence.
Photographer: Xanthos, Julia
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Southern
Hares Rabbitry - This is a
small rabbitry located in De Kalb, Mississippi owned by Scott and Cassie
Rudolph. They raise Silver Martens (Black,
Blue & Chocolate), Havana's
(Black), Mini Rex (White), Holland Lops and we jointly raise Creme
d'Argents with Scott's dad and step mom.. Scott is an ARBA Registrar,
and has raised rabbits for a better part of 15 years. They have contributed
super photos for use on this site, and you can see even more of their
rabbits by clicking on each highlighted link above!
World of Reef Keeping
- Lee Nieuwoudt contributed the picture of African Butterfly fish, and
Adorned Wrasse. His site gives firsthand look at the adventures of reefkeeping
through his own experience. The site has good information and advice on
how to get started. Thanks Lee!
Roy
Beckham at eFinch.com
contributed wonderful photos of various finches. Visit Roys' site for
photos of dozens of different finches, breeding tips, and the eFinch Store.
Chris Jessen's
Reef and Fin in Stamford, CT.
Chris has provided several photos of rare marine
fish and corals.
Deborah
Pearson - Is
sharing a beautiful Ruby Macaw
that she just rescued!
Becca
- Contributed pictures of her pretty and friendly little Hahn's
Macaw: "Lu"!
Robin
Bidwell - Has
shared her beautiful White-bellied Caique with us, a subspecies called
the: Yellow-thighed Caique!
Andy
Sennett - Contributed
pictures of his gorgeous Eastern or Golden-mantled Rosella: Betty-boo!
Ron
Cloutier - Sent
a bit of information and a picture of his champion Red-headed Parrot Finch:
"Pavarotti"!
Jeanni
Kistler-Davis -
Provided some wonderful photos and a bit of information on her: "Yellow-Collared
Macaw"!
Crystal
McCraine - Sent
a bit of information and a picture of her Half-Moon Conure: Lucky!
David
Rein Henderson -
Sent a picture of his daughter holding their wonderful pet Jenday
Conure: Roxy!
Keith
Berkelhamer contributed pictures of his magnificent reef.
Click here ReefBum.com to view his site.
S.
Geldman - Pictures and information on his Harlequin
Macaw, "Frida".
Cathy
Powell
Cathy has contributed the following articles:
Giving a Cat a
Bath.on the cleanest but not necessarily the most cooperative
of all pets!
Things that
Bad Bunnies should have to write on the chalkboard 100 times!
A wonderful description of the funny behaviors of pet bunny rabbits.
Cathy also sent us wonderful pictures of Attila
da Bun, who got the prestigious 11 out of 10 on the Dr. Jungle cuteness
meter and pictures of "Pancho",
a Chihuahua terrier mix who was featured in November, 1998.
Thank you Cathy!
Antonio
Bunderos
What a surprise to get a letter from a bunny!
A letter to the editor about loving and caring for bunnies, Bunnies
need a lifetime of love and attention, 1998. Talks about
responsible pet ownership from the bunnys' point of view. (Actually
Dr. Jungle always knew that rabbits could talk).
Pictures
and information on the Brown-banded Cat Shark have been provided by Callie
Mathews: Banded
Cat Shark Thanks Callie!
Cindy
- Sent pictures
and information about her White-eyed Conure: Cosmo!
Patrick Marshall -
Developed the freshwater fish disease and treatment section. Check out
his web page: Mudminnow
Fish Information Services.
Seth
Weintraub:
Great photos of the Mandarin Goby, Velvet Wrasse, and more! Check out
the affiliated aquarium service at Seascapes.
Seascapes services the entire state of New Jersey, as well as the Philadelphia
area.
Vicki
Seaman:
Thanks for the wonderful description of the common Parakeets!
Vicki runs an aquarium service here in Ridgecrest and has spent
most of her life in some sort of pet related industry. She is very
knowledgeable and her expertise is much appreciated here. Thanks!
Kathy
Jinkings - Thank you very much Kathy, the Bristle-nose
Catfish pictures you provided are awesome! See them on the catfish
Genus: Ancistrus page.
Kathy is associated with the British
Aquatic Resource Centre and AquaSource
International.
~
Dream Weaver Studios ~
Jim Sheil, Photographer
1539 N. China Lake Blvd. #222
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
(760) 371-5832
Jim provided some of the excellent underwater photography
seen on the Marine and Reef
pages.
Jacque
Dumas - The
Outback Menagerie Photos and information on Angora
Rabbits. Information provided by the National Angora Rabbit Breeders
Club.
Red
Rose Rabbitry - located in Fort
Worth, Texas. Specializing in Holland Lop and Netherland Dwarf rabbits
and bunnies. James & Rosemary of RedRose provided the beautiful pictures
of the different kinds of Holland
Lop.
John
Rice - One of the finest reef sites
on the net. Great photos, great aquariums, lots of information.
John provided many of the finer reef and marine fish photos. See feature
on homepage. Here is a list of Johns' photos: Chevron
Tang, Pair of Tangs, Purple
Tang, Blue Tang, Sailfin
Tang, Sohal Tang, Acropora(3),
Birdsnest, Merulina,
Encrusting Fire Coral,
Montipora, ... more
to come. To put it simply, we can't thank John enough!
Dennis Schneider - Featured Reef
aquarium, a 5 year old reef that is one of the finest we've seen.
Kristy-
Photos of Larry
and Joey her male and female Alexandrine Parakeets, and Thorn,
her Sun Conure just after his first moult.
Affan
Dagasan, from Sweden - Photos of his
male Pintail Whydah,
a beautiful finch indeed!
Animal World is now accepting submissions of articles,
photos, and information
on most subjects related to pets.
If you have something you would like
to publish:
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