Aussie Finch Forum

I was searching for images of juvenile finches and found this page.
The picture of interest is about halfway down the page, amongst the big group of finch photos, below the red-brow who is eating a casuarina cone. I gather from the context that these are meant to be wild birds.

Apologies for the link, but it's not my photo to reproduce.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/forum/B ... ly-Finches

I have never seen a wild painted firetail with colour anything like this one, especially on the face.
The face looks more like a hen crimson than a paint too me, but the body is all paint.
It struck me as most unusual; I was wondering what others thought.

I reckon it's in the post processing Matty .

Painteds have an enormous natural range & a wide degree of natural variation in both the area and intensity of red colour on both sexes.

Lots of Great pics on that website and a great male Painted Firetail.

Agree with Tiaris, every chance its a wild bird but not seen any with that amount of red (head) around these parts.

I have a Simpson & Day field guide and the illustrated cock bird looks fairly similar.