In my previous post I said that I didn’t have an aesthetic appreciation of bird-song but it’s not that I don’t appreciate what song does for our birds it’s just that I prefer the quieter ones. In this post I’ve pulled some recent news releases together which highlight some of the more interesting aspects of [...]

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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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I took this video over the weekend, and I just can’t explain to you how happy I was when the first nestling explored the outside of their nest. Usually, nestlings would fledge three weeks from hatching, and will explore the cage without regard to their parents and even you. They would miss your [...]

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Videos like this are hard to come by. It is just fortunate on my part that my zebras are now used to having me near them that I was able to record Ryan, my male zebra, while he is feeding their two week old chicks.

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I am happy to announce that my zebra finch pair is again pregnant, and it’s a triplets! Hehe. That’s not really the good news.  The first clutch they had for this year, or ever, was a dud.  The female sat on it for two weeks, and I didn’t bother to check on the eggs like what other breeders [...]

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I’m getting a little scholarly as of date reading all these manuals that my biologist-friend from UP has sent to me through e-mail, when she learned that I was into breeding zebra finches. I don’t profess to understand everything I’ve read, but this one scientific study caught my attention because I instinctively cannot figure out [...]

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I don’t know if you’ve read this report already, but it says that the best male zebra singers are more intelligent and more likely to get the girls of the colony.  Apparently, the more complicated the song of the zebra, the more complicated its brain’s neuron connections are, and in the language of mutation, that’s a good thing.  It looks like the [...]

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I’m very much aware that an All-Black Zebra Finch is very rare and hard to produce… but how much is it?  And where can I see (get) one? I got this little picture from www.finchniche.com and just wanted to know if this is an all black zebra . It says in finchniche that this one is a black [...]

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I should have done this a month ago, but I have just provided my zebra finch pair a nest and nesting materials over the weekend.  These two are not over a year old yet, and in human-speak, they’re just about to start a family.  Even though I already expected it, I was still a little [...]

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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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