'Par Blue' Parrot finches

12 Dec 2012, 18:51

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.

12 Dec 2012, 19:29

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 ....

12 Dec 2012, 19:33

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....

12 Dec 2012, 19:41

Yes Gary, thats them. Craig

12 Dec 2012, 19:51

Gary is it the light in the bottom one or is that two par-blues and one sea green?

12 Dec 2012, 20:32

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.

12 Dec 2012, 20:43

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.

12 Dec 2012, 20:55

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

12 Dec 2012, 21:12

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.

13 Dec 2012, 11:17

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.