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i originally brought my two birds from a good petstore as zebra finches. But the more i read up about the birds the more im confused wether they are zebra or society. This is my prob ...

They are both completely white, 1 with red beak 1 with orange beak. The 1 with the red beak has a slightly light brown strip under both the wings.
Reading about zebras it says it should be easy to tell male from female from a circle patch on their cheeks, which neither have. Whereas when i look at them now im thinking they could very possibly be societies rather than zebras ???

Also i always thought that the male had a red beak and the female orange, but in the book it says underneath a picture that its vice versa (this could be a misprint although the more i read up the more i think what i remember from childhood could be wrong ??) HELP !!!

Any help highly appreciated thanks

Photos would help for sure but with the red (male) and orange (female) beaks, I would say they are Zebra finches for sure. I've never heard of nor seen a Society with coloured beaks like that.

Pure white Zebra males and females do not have any cheek colouring. You can only go by the beak and song.

agrees with Liz ... 100% zebra pair

good luck

Ray

cheers peeps.

will post some pics as soon as i find how to do it

Sounds like definate Zebras to me also.

Zebra mutations can be very confusing sometimes. The whites do not get the cheek patches. The males beak will be a deeper/brighter red than the females. Only the males (of any mutation) will have the chestnut flank feathers that you referred to.
Sounds like you have CWF - chestnut white flanked.
You can google that and see many pictures.

Also, society finches never have red beaks.. they are cream, horn colored, brown and flesh tones.

thanks guys and gals

much appreciated