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Saw these on line.

Any ideas?

https://goo.gl/images/NY2aGW

I was thinking a Canary and a Goldfinch, but the beak is huge....

Some type of European Goldfinch would be my guess

From what I can gather with Google translate, and cross referencing many sites with similar pictures, it's an albino European goldfinch. The name used for the bird is Saka, which I believe is Turkish for European goldfinch.

That's the best I could find.

debbie276 Rob

I noticed that just under the picture it says Kanarya, which in Turkish means Canary, that's why I thought that it might be some sort of a Canary hybrid.

This site has a cross with a canary http://kanarya2004.tripod.com/saka1.htm

It is confusing for sure. The other site has no mention of canary, that's why I assume it's not a cross. It's an interesting bird either way.

The bird in question is not actually a Goldie mule but a mutation Siberian Goldie which is classed as a eumo mutation

Rob Stuart whiting

Hi Stuart and Rob,

Stuart, you are right, when I looked under Siberian Goldfinch mutations, sure enough there they were.

https://goo.gl/images/qaJieg

Trying to translate things from Turkish to English, is enough to make you go .
Words simply do not translate true to the meaning which they are meant to convey, lol.

Rob wrote: From what I can gather with Google translate, and cross referencing many sites with similar pictures, it's an albino European goldfinch. The name used for the bird is Saka, which I believe is Turkish for European goldfinch.

That's the best I could find.

It's not an albino European Goldie but as mentioned it's a Siberian eumo Goldie

lovezebs wrote: Rob Stuart whiting

Hi Stuart and Rob,

Stuart, you are right, when I looked under Siberian Goldfinch mutations, sure enough there they were.

https://goo.gl/images/qaJieg

Trying to translate things from Turkish to English, is enough to make you go .
Words simply do not translate true to the meaning which they are meant to convey, lol.

I used to have em a few years back but didn't really do anything for me, bred a few but not much and at £300 - £400 each and quite often more it was a hell of a lot of doe to pay out and to be honest just didn't think they were worth it

Thinking about it I could easily get 3-4 pairs of very good quality waxbills for that and much much sooner have these

lovezebs wrote: http://www.greekbirdclub.com/showthread ... E%B1/page3

Interesting Elana but definitely not for me, I'm not particularly a lover of mutations anyway, can't beet a very good normal

Hi Totaly agree with Stu. Seberian goldfinch and european goldfinch parva. We have some of thrm herewe can finf them in some pet store. They are huge and to expensive

lovezebs wrote: http://www.greekbirdclub.com/showthread ... E%B1/page3

Iwas told by a friend, that someone he knows caught the same one certainly an escaped. Lucky Guy he got the jackpot

haroun wrote: Hi Totaly agree with Stu. Seberian goldfinch and european goldfinch parva. We have some of thrm herewe can finf them in some pet store. They are huge and to expensive

Hi there mate,

Long time no here, how yer doing, hope you and yer birds are keeping well

It says canary hybrid