I was very privileged to visit Northern Australia during this past July. This beautiful and vast region, particularly the Kimberley of Western Australia is home to 11 species of finch commonly held in aviaries in Australia and overseas.  Here in the Philippines the most commonly held finches: zebras, Gouldians, owls, shaft-tailed, mask and stars all [...]

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Finchme looks like it could do with a new article so I’m posting a quick one.  I’ve just come back from 7 weeks in Australia, during which I visited the Kimberly region of Western Australia.   This region is the home of most of the Philippines favourite finches.  I’ve got some nice shots of wild owls, gouldians, [...]

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 My interest in this subject is fairly new as I thought I was doing the right thing with my birds - they were breeding and I’d overcome the air-sac mite problem that that plagued the female.  The juveniles, who shared the aviary with the adults, had almost completed colouring up but it was the parents [...]

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Now here’s a better video with both parents feeding their fledglings outside of the nest. The babies are now three-four weeks old, and you can still see the markings on their mouth.

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The next time I go headhunting(I mean, birdhunting) for my next zebra finch pair, I’ll make sure to bring a sound recorder.  I have yet to see a large zebra finch aviary in the country, but that’s where I want to end up. A recorder and a nice big aviary.  Why? See my explanation in this article.

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Sometimes, you do things you do not understand completely.  There was even a point in time last week when I was doing something against my natural instinct: I wasn’t doing anything, and that was what troubled me.  You see, I got this advise from Kurt. After telling him that my female zebra is losing its [...]

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You simply got to see this.  Watch the video after the jump.

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One thing that clearly separates finches, especially the zebra finch, from other birds is that inside any cage or aviary, they are constantly active, fluttering, and moving from one perch to the other.  It’s like a finch trademark.  In fact, in a bird show, one requirement for judging good finches is that the bird must be constantly going back and forth between two [...]

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Here’s my tried-and-proven finch recipes that will keep your birds healthy and away from bird diseases.
Basic Food:
Calgrain (White Millet) 40%
Canary seed 30%
Japanese millet 30%
Mineral Grits (for calcium)
Optional:
Niger Seed

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This article gives a background of the most common variety of finch which is the zebra finch. Almost all finch owners start out with this particular species, for reasons that will be laid out in this article. At the end, pointers will be given to enthusiasts who would like to start having zebra finches as pets.

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