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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.

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

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

I've never heard of hexes either.


Perhaps you meant "hecks"?

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

...but CONGRATS!

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

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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.