If you see them in the live food dish you know that they have got young. I give mine mealworms and maggots and I give them Vinegar flies. I taper the live food off just before the young ones fledge because I find they are not interested in the live food then for whatever reason, but definitely when they are breeding.
Yes, in an ice-cream container, I just put the fruit in the bottom with flywire over the top so they can't get to it. It is really hard to chop up a termite nest and get them all. The easiest way I have heard is with 20 litre white buckets. You get the lid and cut a hole in the middle of it about cm in diameter , then fill it up with timber and hardwood wrapped in newspaper and made moist, put the lid with the hole in it on it then go out to a termite nest and put it upside down next to the nest.
All the termites will go in there and build their nest inside it. Then you turn up two or three weeks later, turn the bucket over and put a lid on it, change the bucket over and then you just walk home with the bucket. Roy asked members present at the meeting if they had any questions they would like to ask Ivan about Blood Finches? They are easy to sex.
The cock bird is fully red. The hen is an attractive bird in her own right; red face and red fusion over the wings and red tail.
They are both very attractive. They are always on the move, flicking their tail. They are quite an inquisitive bird, especially the immature birds.
If you lean up against the aviary to have a look the immature birds will tend to fly up to have a look at you. We have Corellas that fly over our place every morning and every arvo, and as they screech every single Blood Finch will just start calling in response.
They are an attractive bird and quite tame. I feed mine finch mix. I haven't noticed any preference for seed. They love seeding grass. I give them a Lebanese cucumber every day. Corn on the cob a couple of times a week. What about nesting? Do they use a box? Prefer a round hole or a square hole? Or do they build their own? Mine have never nested in brush. I supply them with wicket baskets and I've got a few timber nest boxes but they've never used them.
What mine all love using is those wire cylinders that are about 19cm x 15cm with a timber back on them and timber on the front where the opening is. I have four pairs of Crimsons and every single pair breeds in those cylinders.
In fact all my cup nesters like those cylinders. They have never built in brush, always in these wire cylinders. They like Pandanus palms , but not just Pandanus palms, Pandanus palms with grasses growing through it right next to a watercourse.
Crimson finches will breed in a variety of nesting places including wicker finch nests, coconut husks, hollow logs, and open finch nest boxes. These finches like to nest high so place the nests in a high area of the aviary. Supply swamp grass and some coarser grass for them to properly construct the nest. They will line the nest with feathers so be sure to supply them. Both male and female take part in building the nest. They will lay around 6 white eggs and begin incubation around 4 days after laying.
The eggs will take 14 days to incubate. Both parents will share the duty of incubation. The chicks will start to venture outside the nest when they are about 4 weeks old an will be continued to be fed by both parents for a further 4 weeks as they learn to hull seeds for them self. The birds will greatly increase the intake of live food while the chicks are being raised so increase the live food mentioned above. Being sexually dimorphic these finches are easily to visual sex as the male have more red coloration than the females.
Juvinile birds are more difficult to sex. Skip to content. Juvenile Red-browed Finches are separable from juvenile Crimson Finches by their olive-brown plumage, with no red on the tail. They are also present at scattered sites along parts of the Cape York Peninsula especially the western side and also in north-eastern Queensland. Crimson Finches are also recorded in southern New Guinea. The favoured habitats of the Crimson Finch are usually mixed eucalypt—pandanus woodlands with a tall, dense understorey of grass, generally in damp environments associated with wetlands, though they are occasionally seen on other types of woodlands near wetlands, such as riparian paperbark woodlands.
In some regions there is a movement away from pandanus—canegrass habitats to the margins of billabongs in the wet season. Although Crimson Finches mostly eat seeds, mainly from grasses, insects form a major component of the diet during the breeding season.
Seeds are usually plucked directly from the seed-heads of grasses after the bird has landed on the stem, and fallen seeds are taken directly from the ground. Insects are usually gleaned from the foliage of vegetation. Crimson Finches lay up to eight white eggs in a bulky, bottle-shaped nest made of coarse grass and bark, and placed among the dead fronds of a pandanus tree. The eggs are incubated by both sexes, and both sexes feed the young.
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