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pics of green strawberries

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Beautiful Love the ever so vibrant racing stripes on the flanks

They are beautiful!!!

One of my favourites!!!

Wow!! I never would have guessed them to be "Strawberries" if you didn't name them. Incredibly beautiful!!

They are beautiful birds!!

Jacqui

@ Liz, they r locally known as green munia. also known as green avadavat
thanks all.

YES I was waiting for these pics! They are exactly what I expected and more. I can only wish to be so fortunate as you and own even a single pair of those one day.

I'm very curious about them, are they social like most other waxbills? Do they have a nice song?

Very pretty finch,are they hard to get there never seen them before

Domenic wrote:YES I was waiting for these pics! They are exactly what I expected and more. I can only wish to be so fortunate as you and own even a single pair of those one day.

I'm very curious about them, are they social like most other waxbills? Do they have a nice song?

thanks Domenic ,they all r wild caught bird.these birds r not commonly found in local pet store.but they r very cheap as per pair $5 i have bought 4 pair but 3 died because they were sick.
no they r not social like moat other waxbills .firstly i put them with my red strawberries but they are in fighting mood and picking feathers.
so i separated them in a single case,they don't fight each other.
yes they have a nice song,a little bit difference with the red strawberries.

Found a good site for the green avadavat check it out
http://www.qfs.org.au/GreenAvadavat/index.htm

Oh, I have found my new dream bird! Green Avadats will be right up there with Pekin Robins, but I have a better chance of getting Pekins than I do Green Avadats--I've been told that the Green Avadat has completely disappeared from American aviculture.

Thanks for that link, Bill. I had been told that the Green Avadat had disappeared from Australian aviculture, but it sounds like they are still working to save them--but 100 in the whole country is pretty scary.

Thanks, mahfuz, for those photos--I'd only seen drawings of this bird before--you made my day!

Love those birds There are many subspecies in the anandava/avadavat family. Our common goldbreast waxbill is among them.
They all require the same sort of care, diet, and they will/can crossbreed if kept together.

Oh!!! So stunning! Gimme, gimme.