spice finch male or female?

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spice finch male or female?

Post by christy » Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:39 pm

hi iam new to this forum and would like to ask a question,i have recently purchased 2 spice finches, i know it is hard to tell the sex but can you tell by there behavior, the fact that they roost together does that mean i have a pair? i know that one of them definantly makes a nice chirpy sound, and i think i have heard some sort of whistle im not sure though if both make a sound or not any way any help would be great!
oh yeah they are in a flight cage with 2 pairs of zebras if that helps.
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Post by Hilary » Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:50 pm

Christy -

If you have a male it will sing (mine sings constantly!). I'll watch mine tomorrow morning and give you a description of his song - I'm drawing a blank right now! I think his song sounds a bit like somebody tapping on a hollow log.....

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Post by Crystal » Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:26 pm

They will cuddle no matter what gender they are. The male will sing, however. Mine's song sounded something like "be-de-de, be-de-de, be-de-de meeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhh." It was quite comical. :)

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Re: spice finch male or female?

Post by Meagan83 » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:41 pm

I have 2 males myself. The easiest way to determine if they are male is their singing. Mine are barely audible, I have to listen very closely, but they fluff up and sometimes hop a little the way society finches do.

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Post by B CAMP » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:42 pm

christy
Welcome to the forum have you checked out the finch infomation center to the left its got a lot of info
http://www.finchinfo.com/birds/finches/ ... _finch.php
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