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This is the "supposed" green singer I rescued the other day...any thoughts? There doesn't seem to be enough yellow...

I would guess that it's very young still? I don't know for sure, my babies are still in the nest though I have seen bits of yellow on them.

This bird was in the pet store for 2 years...maybe bad nutrition affected the feathers...don't know.

So it's certainly old enough to be in full colour - the poor thing! The tone of green on the body appears right for a Green Singer. Here's my pair.

Could be a European Green Finch.

It was hard to get a picture, but from her chest down is yellow, above that is yellow/greenish brown mottled. Very confusing. And shes quite tiny.

allicat1229 wrote:It was hard to get a picture, but from her chest down is yellow, above that is yellow/greenish brown mottled. Very confusing. And shes quite tiny.

My Green Singers are just a smidgen bigger than my Gouldians. About the same size as my Society finches.

And she is smaller than my societies....who knows...shes alive, guess thats what matters!

I was just looking at pics of European siskins. It may also be that.

It is definitely not a pure Green Singer. I have a lot of pictures of juveniles on my web site and non of them look like this. It could be a hybrid or some other Serinus. It would be interesting to find out what it actually is.

The scientist in me wants to know also...its really going to annoy me...

I believe the black markings on the head are characteristic of Siskins. Just guessing.

I think Fardad (psilocybin) could be a huge help here.

My female Green Singer looks sort of like that during breeding season. She plucks feathers from her chest (or her mate does) and it looks dark like that. It could be this Green singer you rescued was plucking feathers or was getting plucked. Give it some time. It may look normal soon, it a better environment!

Thanks everyone. Now that she is in a good place with good nutrition, hopefully she will molt and I can better tell. Time to just wait and see!