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Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 18:51
by Finchy
garymc wrote:Is this them?
No, those are regular Seagreens.
I would love to see a photo of the birds in question though. Sounds very interesting.
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 19:29
by Pete Sara
Finchy wrote:No, those are regular Seagreens.
I would love to see a photo of the birds in question though. Sounds
They dont look anything like my sea greens ....
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 19:33
by vettepilot_6
poitta wrote:Finchy wrote:No, those are regular Seagreens.
I would love to see a photo of the birds in question though. Sounds
They dont look anything like my sea greens ....
Tend to agree
I have seen a lot of seagreen RF only one is the bottom pic looks seagreen to me....
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 19:41
by Craig52
Yes Gary, thats them. Craig
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 19:51
by natamambo
Gary is it the light in the bottom one or is that two par-blues and one sea green?
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 20:32
by Finchy
Really? I was expecting something more different. Maybe I'm interpreting the photos wrongly somehow, but on my screen those look very similar to my Seagreens. Perhaps they are more blueish and the face is a little more subdued.
I had been fantasising about really blue birds with pale faces, from the description.
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 20:43
by firetail555
They dont look like the par blues I saw either. The face was not orange at all and the body had less green wash through the blue, but all in all, I think the colour of the face is the main way to tell the difference, its much lighter.
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 20:55
by Craig52
In an ancient topic,i did mention seeing royal blue backed redface with a red face at a dealers near PortMacquarie many years ago.These birds were in a very dark aviary covered in creepers and no or little access to sun light so i thought it was due to that.The dealer said that wasn't so as he picked the bluer backed birds out of the birds bought in by different breeders and set them up to breed.Anythings possible? Craig
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 12 Dec 2012, 21:12
by finches247
Gary those are what I had for a short time which are in between the normal seagreen and the par blue and I called them Dark seagreens.
Re: 'Par Blue' Parrot finches
Posted: 13 Dec 2012, 11:17
by Diane
I havent checked recently but I seem to remember the Erythrura site having pictures of bluer looking parrot finches but they could have been one of the other species. Even though the site cant be accessed normally you can get to the web archive via this link
http://web.archive.org/web/200902050754 ... ram.en.htm
after that you will have to search the different sections.