Java: Male or Female

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Java: Male or Female

Post by flrancho » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:48 am

I'm trying to figure out if my Java Rice Finch is a male or female. I initially thought it was a female, but then "she" started dancing and now she makes a churring sound, but I'm not sure if its calling or if its juvenile singing. I managed to take a video of him/her this morning making the churring noises, and hope that someone who has had Javas could tell me if its just calling or if its juvenile singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqYVFMaEo3s
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Re: Java: Male or Female

Post by cindy » Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:37 am

I love this site for java's...this is a step by step guide to physically sexing java's.

http://www.javafinch.co.uk/sex/sexndx.html

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Re: Java: Male or Female

Post by flrancho » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:44 am

Thanks. I've seen that page before. Visually, my bird looks more like the female, however s/he does dance and make the noise you can hear in the video. The bird is very young as well, so I'm not sure how reliable the visual sexing is. I'm guessing the bird is only a few months old, it just now has gotten it's adult plumage.
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