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Thank you very much! I wonder how could you identify by the pictures that the cobalt is a male, any tips? Sure I won´t pair two greywings for breeding purposes, the nestbox was removed 3 weeks ago and will not be reintroduced. Too bad it is hard to find linnies here, I guess raising youngs will...

Hi Melissa, She is a beauty!!! I love the greens, wish to have one here with me someday... BTW, I loved the name, quite creative! It looks like she is confortable outside the cage. Was she hand raised? Cheers

Hi, Here goes some pictures of the cobalt. In the process to capture him to take the pictures I could have a better look in his leg band (which I did not remember he had :oops:) and found out he was born at 2018. Some pictures are poor because Charlie would not stop moving. That´s also...

Thank you LinnieGirl for your kind response! I will try to make a better picture of the cobalt bird, it will be great to have your opinion regarding his mutation. Indeed the greywing has a nostril scar but other than that appears to be healthy. It is the less shy between them and always...

Thank you for the thoughtfull reply! I was surprised to hear that they have a short reproductive life. I know they have a narrow ideal temperature range (thermoneutral zone), between 28°C to 30°C ( Oxygen consumption, ventilation and respiratory heat loss in a parrot,Bolborhynchus lineola, in...

Hi Recently I have adopted a pair of linnies that were told to be a male/female couple. I still have not DNA sexed them and one of them is a grey wing mutation which complicate things to observe sexual dimorphism. I live in Brazil and linnies are realy hard to find here, not to mention the...