The 3 Mask-ateers

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The 3 Mask-ateers

Post by TheGrassfinch » Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:58 am

Trio of grass finches keeping the peace in Finchville.
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Post by cindy » Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:28 am

They look great, great picture. I love shaft tails, they are rather comical!

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Re: The 3 Mask-ateers

Post by Bluebonnet » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:36 am

cindy wrote:They look great, great picture. I love shaft tails, they are rather comical!
Especially once you imagine the beak as a nose and the black throat patch as a large open mouth. :lol:
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Post by PrettyBird » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:05 pm

"all for one! and one for all!" :lol:

They are gorgeous
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Re: The 3 Mask-ateers

Post by kheather » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:14 pm

very beautiful, I don't have any myself, my friend has a few and just got two albino's from a fawn hen and normal male. I love their song too...tried to get one of her babies she doesn't want to let them go! maybe her next round.
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Post by TheGrassfinch » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:32 pm

Here is the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcxtzZIf ... AAAAAAAAAA
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Post by DanteD716 » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:37 pm

Excuse my ignorance, but do the males have red beaks like zebra finches? I noticed one has an orange beak
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Re: The 3 Mask-ateers

Post by TheGrassfinch » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:49 pm

All three of these have red beaks, although the one on the left has a slight yellow tint. There may have been some inbreeding further up in the family tree.

In General you get 2 subspecies. The one with the yello beak is the nominate race whereas the red-beaked finches are of the hecki sub specie and that is why they are also called Heck's Grassfinches.

I have a fawn as well.
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Post by dfcauley » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:51 pm

Beautiful!!!! One of my favorite finches!!!! =D>
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Re: The 3 Mask-ateers

Post by cindy » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:54 pm

I have ones that when the young were born the beaks were a pearl flesh tone and remained light, I also have the orange beaks. Yellow beak is a bit harder to come by.

I love this site and have been corresponding with them in regards to my shaft tails. The pearl pink beaks apparently are seen more in Europe than here. My male (the father had an orange beak and the mom had a red beak) You can have females with red or orange beaks. The pearl pink tone is a male. The males beak darkens as well as the females during breeding.

http://www.birdbazaar.com/BB-ColorMutations.htm

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Post by kathmcm » Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:02 pm

Those three look fierce!
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Post by CandoAviary » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:02 pm

They are beautiful!
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Post by RigorMortisKitten » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:16 pm

hahah what a cute trio :D
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Re: The 3 Mask-ateers

Post by finchmix22 » Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:18 pm

Very striking birds.
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