Serin
Crowing
I've had my own share of birds with names that don't fit their sex. Happens a lot when buying baby birds, I try for gender neutral names now for the ones I dont know about.
Not a parrot but I got this photo of my 3 generational family of society finches recently as they tucked into their coconut house. Finches were my first foray into birds, and I still love them. Mine are friendlier than most, they do come to my hand and fly to me for treats because I spend so much time socializing them and raised all but one of these in my own home, but in general they are ornamental birds. The males sing cute little squeaky songs. And they are super easy to breed.
Apollo on the furthest right is the patriarch, I bought his parents as some of my first birds six years ago and he was bred by me. He will be six in February which is old for his species but he still acts spry and is fertile. His youngest daughter Coco under him hatched in May. His mate is Poppy, above him, and she is almost 4. Left and second-from-left are Pumpkin and Amber, their oldest son and daughter who are 16 and 13 months of age. Right in the middle is their son Carmel, and their other son Spirit on the bottom. Spirit and Carmel were the result of a controlled inbred pairing which produced an unexpected recessive - Spirit is very pale due to a dilute gene I didn't even know was in the line all these years.
The ones with silly haircuts are crested, this is a co-dominant gene so about half of the chicks of Poppy who has it and Apollo who does not inherit the bowl cut.
Not a parrot but I got this photo of my 3 generational family of society finches recently as they tucked into their coconut house. Finches were my first foray into birds, and I still love them. Mine are friendlier than most, they do come to my hand and fly to me for treats because I spend so much time socializing them and raised all but one of these in my own home, but in general they are ornamental birds. The males sing cute little squeaky songs. And they are super easy to breed.
Apollo on the furthest right is the patriarch, I bought his parents as some of my first birds six years ago and he was bred by me. He will be six in February which is old for his species but he still acts spry and is fertile. His youngest daughter Coco under him hatched in May. His mate is Poppy, above him, and she is almost 4. Left and second-from-left are Pumpkin and Amber, their oldest son and daughter who are 16 and 13 months of age. Right in the middle is their son Carmel, and their other son Spirit on the bottom. Spirit and Carmel were the result of a controlled inbred pairing which produced an unexpected recessive - Spirit is very pale due to a dilute gene I didn't even know was in the line all these years.
The ones with silly haircuts are crested, this is a co-dominant gene so about half of the chicks of Poppy who has it and Apollo who does not inherit the bowl cut.
Last night and tonight she wanted to come out of her cage and hang out again, instead of just sitting under her heat lamp, so that's a positive sign. She is also eating and drinking well.
