Gold Breasted Wax Bills

rkn · Post by **rkn** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:16 pm

Does anyone here know about Gold Breasted Wax Bills? I got one in April, he looked like a darn pluck chicken and was about given to me (huge discount) when I bought some finches from Petsmart. So fast forward to now, he or she is full feathered and absolutely beautiful! Such color!!! I am hooked. Hard to beleive this was the same pitiful bird I reluctantly took home but the discount was he was almost free.

So now that i look at him and watch him, I wonder if it is a him at all! he doesn't sing....hangs out with my two orange wax bills and seems well adjusted and happy.

My question is this, do female gold breasted wax bills have the same bright coloring as a male? This one doesn't sing and is very quoet and passive bird. I am thinking maybe he's a she? But don't know anything about this species...someone help?

Ok I do have to say i am way hooked on he or she! So brightly colored and just nice to observe doing what they do. Never picks a fight, is happy being with the group...I want more!!!! lol

so someone tell me is mine a girl or a boy so I can find it a friend...*smiles*

rita

rkn · Post by **rkn** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:18 pm

Just wanted to add. I do have a pic of "it" on my link but it is sort of in the middle of it's feather issue and not as pretty and bright as today. Will need to take a recent pic. But that gold is so pretty on this type...am way hooked.

rkn

the.puppeteer · Post by **the.puppeteer** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:38 pm

Hi rkn,

that is definitely a male. I once had a male Owl Finch (DNA sexed) that would make the mee sound and danced, but never sang.

My Goldbreast male does 'sing' but it's very high pitched and he seems to prefer doing it as soon as the sun is up.

-Julie

Post by **Sally** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:22 pm

rkn, Goldbreasts are very easy to visually sex. The males are not only brighter, with the breast being much more orange, but they have a red stripe over their eye, which the females do not have at all. My five juvies just molted into their adult colors, and I can easily see that I have 3 males and 2 females. I just love the Goldbreasts, they are so tiny and colorful. My second pair has a couple of hatchlings in their nest, I can just hear them begging now. My birdroom has so many birds in it now that it is very hard to pick out individual songs, so I can't tell you much about the song.

rkn · Post by **rkn** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:22 pm

Thank you for your help!

So either I am missing him singing because i am a morning lazy head...lol or he is so low key in sound I am missing it totally? Sad I am! And to thinkI favor himk in the group of birds...lol

So let me ask you, do female look different?How can I tell them apart? I want to get my "guy" if indeed that is what he is... a mate friend. So how can a newbie tell them appart? Other then the wax bill species in general are ALL so dang cute i am hooked terribly.... but that and a quarter ya known....lol

rkn

Post by **Sally** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:25 pm

Ha! It looks like we were posting about the same time!

dfcauley · Post by **dfcauley** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:13 pm

rkn wrote:

so someone tell me is mine a girl or a boy so I can find it a friend...*smiles*

rita

Yes it is a male for sure. I have a pair and the female has very little orange color on her. They are the sweetest little birds. Mine had three babies. I sold two of them and kept one. I had someone who wanted it, but didn't want to send it off without a mate so I kept it. The three of them are always together.

jamezyboo21 · Post by **jamezyboo21** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:39 am

Sally, I dont know if you already have some but is there anyway you could post some pics up of your bird room? I would love to see your setup.

Post by **Sally** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:05 pm

jamezyboo21 wrote:Sally, I dont know if you already have some but is there anyway you could post some pics up of your bird room? I would love to see your setup.

I'll take some and post them in a couple of days. It is nothing special, a little unfinished storage room off my back porch, absolutely crammed full of cages. I sure would like to redo the whole room--in fact, I'd love to have the whole thing redone as a sunporch--maybe one of these days! Last year, I think I had 5 or 6 cages, never dreamed I'd have so many.

jamezyboo21 · Post by **jamezyboo21** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:35 pm

Lol!

same thing here. i decided to bring the big cage back in because when it rains hard it reaches the cages and they make a huge mess with the seeds falling onto the neighbors porch downstairs, so i decided to keep them in except for really nice days for fresh air. plus its easy to vacuum up the seeds.

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