Spotted Pardolote

[cookey]

Hi all. Just wandering if anyone owns/breeds Spotted Pardalotes? Ever since I saw one in the wild last week (landed on my aviary) I have wanted to know more about them. I am particularly interested in purchasing some if available to purchase.

[desertbirds]

Pardolotes aren`t finches and you will be very hard pressed to find any for sale. There are only a few specialist breeders that keep them and i actually dont know of anyone who has them. They have a completely different set of requirements to finches . Maybe try one of the softbill clubs , good luck .they are a beautiful little bird.

[cookey]

Thanks for that. They were listed as Finches in my Australian Bird Book but I noticed that Sparrows are in that section as well so they must be classed as a Sparrow?

[Tintola]

If you are talking about the Readers Digest book, I don't know why you think they are listed as "Finches" At the bottom of the page it says Passeriformes, this a very broad "order" and includes hundreds of families and sub-families of which finches are only one minute group ( Pardalotidae and the finches are in Ploceidae). Clear as mud?

[cookey]

Readers digest??? I never said that. I have the Guide to Australian Birds.

[Jayburd]

who by?
There's a guy in South Australia, wrote an article in a recent just finches, he has striated pardelotes.
Pardelotes (if I'm correct) eat a lot of Lerps which are little scale insects which live on eucalypt leaves, so it would be difficult to feed them I guess.