Pin Tailed Parrot Finches

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Anyone know the going price for the above birds? These ones.... http://www.australianfinchsociety.co.uk ... led002.jpg
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vettepilot_6 wrote:Anyone know the going price for the above birds? These ones.... http://www.australianfinchsociety.co.uk ... led002.jpg
I would say that they are all but gone from Aus now but i can remember them being between $2,000 to $3,000 a pair a long time ago. IMO, these prices were the demise of them,if you had a fat wallet you could buy them as it didn't matter if you couldn't breed them as you had something very few had. :think: It's probably the most colourful parrot finch available to other countries. Craig
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Craig52 wrote:
vettepilot_6 wrote:Anyone know the going price for the above birds? These ones.... http://www.australianfinchsociety.co.uk ... led002.jpg
I would say that they are all but gone from Aus now but i can remember them being between $2,000 to $3,000 a pair a long time ago. IMO, these prices were the demise of them,if you had a fat wallet you could buy them as it didn't matter if you couldn't breed them as you had something very few had. :think: It's probably the most colourful parrot finch available to other countries. Craig
Hmmm I will have to check but there is talk of a guy up here with untolds for sale.... :thumbup: or like I said to the guy that informed me...maybe he was talking about the Pintailed Whydah....but he did say they were parrot finches :thumbup:
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And while we're on the subject . .

I've got some bad news for you about the Tooth Fairy
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I don't know of any around lately either, but have to again take issue with the notion of a high price of birds being a cause of their decline. I rather believe that high prices are far more often very clear evidence that a species has already declined rather than being a cause for the decline. In most cases a high price also provides some measure of insurance/incentive that those with them in their possession will do their utmost to try to breed them with all the effort they can muster. I can think of no species of finch at all in Australia since I was a child where the price has been a significant contributing factor to that species decline in numbers.
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I'd love a couple of pairs of these, but not at that price. Beautiful birds. I'd get em breeding.
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