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by Sojourner » Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:49 pm
Male societies are quite easily visually identified when they sing - because they CHANGE SHAPE.
They sort of go pear-shaped. I've also likened it to what a bag full of water might look like if you tried to drag it along the ground. Once you've seen it you will always recognize it.
Young (immature) females will also sometimes sing, and they sound like immature males just learning their song. So going by song alone in YOUNG Bengalese/society finches might not be as useful. But the females never develop the posture - on the other hand I'm not sure when immature males develop the posture either.
So for sure if you see the bird go pear-shaped that is definitely a male, but if they seem to sing a bit and don't go pear shaped, it could be an immature female, but with some small chance of being an immature male depending on when the young males develop this behavior (and I don't know when that might be).
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