A pleasant Friday morning

[Diane]

The cordons were a sight to behold thats for sure, lots of them flitting around, certainly the most Ive seen in one place. The bluecap was the first I have seen, I had always imagined them to be the same size as the cordons but they seem to be a bigger bird altogether, more along the size of a gouldian, but very pretty birds. Yet another one for the wish list, but I will need lots more experience and probably more aviaries.

[nathan morley]

Blue butterfly arnt red cheeked cordon blues just a sub spieces of the blue caped cordon blue.

[desertbirds]

Thats correct Nathan,there are three in the group-Red Cheeked,Blue Capped and Blue Breasted.

[nathan morley]

Yeah, why then are blue caps considerd so much harder to keep and breed?

[BENSONSAN]

Nathan if memory serves me rite. Red cheeks feed there young a ratio of about %70 seed and %30 live food. WHere as in blue caps its almost exclusively live food i think. Someone correct me if im wrong. ALso there notoriouse nest tossers. I dont think getting them to nest is the hard part its just the live food. I know a guy who feeds his frozen termites a breeds a stack...with cordons and more so red cheeks i have found it to be the keepers laziness that ends up getting the chicks tossed.

As long as your putting that high protein food in everyday your ok. Most of the times anyways.

[nathan morley]

Thanks mate.

[Jayburd]

firstly, they are all different species... closely related, but different.
also, interestingly MP noted that when blue caps were fostered under red cheeks they did better than under blue caps!!!
so interesting dietary consequences?

[nathan morley]

There not all different species there all SUB species of the one species.

[Jayburd]

no, that's not right to my knowledge..
and if it is, which one is the first??

[nathan morley]

It is right.