Aussie Finch Forum

finches247 wrote:Hello,

Blue Breasts are long gone here In here In Australia and New Zealand.

Didn't quite know whether to respond to Myzo's comments about losses of rare species in "Peter's Twinspots" or here as this is a bit 'off topic' in either . .

Just a couple of snippets


Others of my vintage may remember a good Qld finch breeder, long passed, who donated a pair of Blue-breasts as a raffle prize for the fledgling QFS

A magnanimous gesture; but not really in the best interests of a what was a very rare species, even in those 'high and far off' times


And on a completely different note . .

The same group will doubtless remember the accidental loss of what was probably Australia's largest colony of Pintailed (Parrotfinches) Nonpareils in Brisbane's huge flood some forty years ago

Were they Alan Ramsay's birds lost in the flood?

Yes