It's hard to tell from the photo but I'd imagine the rest of the plumage to be a mixture of grey and possibly fawn?Ĭock bird or hen? I have a feeling it might be a cock bird but I guess you'll have to wait for the adult plumage or, failing the development of the usual orange cheek patches, you'll have to wait for the beak to colour up and to see if it pipes the normal cock bird song. I particularly like the lighter cheek patches that are extenuated by the darker plumage of the rest of the head. They are charming and entertaining as well as down-right hardy. They were a very common and popular little bird - rightly so in my opinion. In the long distant past I kept and bred Zebras by the bus load. The white male (unmarked white.? Is that a mutation?) is the father of this odd chick, and the wild-type hen the mother.Īre there any finch experts here? It's an exciting discovery for me I've always previously been able to identify all the chicks that come through my aviary. Note the pale cheek patches (keep in mind these are fresh-from-the-nest fledglings - I didn't expect them to have any sort of 'adult' markings except for the cheek bars in the case of non-pieds or lightly marked pieds. I've never seen a zebra this colour before, it's almost like a roan colour with a hood. So apart from the expected fawn, fawn pied, and normal pieds, I've come across this. ![]() ![]() I have 11 fledglings, most out of the nest, and I due to not wanting to disturb the parents too much, I've mostly left the chicks alone except for a check once - twice a week, so I haven't really taken note of their colours until they came out of the nest (apart from the obvious white feathering on about half the chicks). I have no 'wild' coloured finches anymore bar 1 hen, so I get some nice colours out of them. Aside from my border collie bitch which will be due in about 5 weeks, I've been focusing on breeding zebra finches.
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