New Birds!

susan.keith · Post by **susan.keith** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:05 am

I got some more new birds. My husband brought them home last night. He bought them from our friend for $150. I beleive this is a great price for what he got, they are really beautiful, we have a pair of orange breasted hexes(Ihope thats what they are), three gorgeous shafttails, one male green singer which I'm told are very hard to come by here so I'm hoping to get a female, and theres one more bird that looks like the hexes but has a yellow belly, it looks young so I think it could be the pairs baby! It's quite dark here now so I will wait till tomorrow to take some photos and I will post them, enough bragging for me now, bye.

Thalia · Post by **Thalia** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:15 am

congrats on the newbies!! Can't wait to see photos, what's a hex?

StevePax · Post by **StevePax** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:24 am

Yeah, the "hex" is a new one to me, too.

tammieb · Post by **tammieb** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:03 pm

I've never heard of hexes either.

Perhaps you meant "hecks"?

Rue · Post by **Rue** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:38 pm

I'm not sure what that could be either...

...but CONGRATS!

susan.keith · Post by **susan.keith** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:34 pm

I've posted some photo's in the Adult Finches section. Please tell me what you think.

Rue · Post by **Rue** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:55 pm

I can't find the pics for some reason or other!

Sally H · Post by **Sally H** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:01 pm

I was able to see. I don't know what the goldbreasted ones are but there are a few European Goldfinches mixed in the crowd. Some interesting Zebra mutations, too.

susan.keith · Post by **susan.keith** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:09 pm

I have two gold finches, I dont know if they are male and female, they look identical to me.

susan.keith · Post by **susan.keith** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:21 pm

I noticed in one of my picks(all together), one of my birds has a band around its foot, It's the first I've noticed of this, what does it mean. Could it be registered or something? I'll have to see if any of the others have them!

bluefinch · Post by **bluefinch** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:57 pm

Wow you really got a nice assortment of birds!

I believe the ones with the yellow breast and eye stripe are gold breasted waxbills. From the pictures it looks like you have two males and one hen.

Leg bands are used to help tell birds apart and keep records for breeding purposes. I know there are someplace that require you to band certain species of birds.

Hope all go’s well for you with your new birds!

tammieb · Post by **tammieb** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:07 am

Just took a look at your photos, you've got a nice assortment of finches there. Some unusual Zebras, Societies, Orange Breasted Waxbill, European Goldfinch, Shaft-tails (Hecks grass finch) and the Green Singer. You did good!

Thalia · Post by **Thalia** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:56 am

wow great pictures! you have some very neat coloured zebras and I love those bright yellow guys, they're very pretty!

Boothcreek · Post by **Boothcreek** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:45 pm

Love the European Golds!!! They are sexed by both singing and the Red in the face, if the red stops at at the middle of the eye or before that its a hen and if it goes past the middle of the eye its a male, so from the pic of the one Gold I would say thats a male.
Hens also have a thinner, slightly longer looking and pointy beak.

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