Aussie Finch Forum

Here is some resent pictures of hybrids that was shared from a brid show in Europe.

Interesting although the colour schemes are not my cup of tea, looking forward to seeing more hybrids in the future.

Rich.

Hi Blue Cuban is that last bird a Gouldian? what are the rest?

My guesses would be star x double bar....Diamond Sparrow x Plumhead? or maybe Painted ....Gouldian x BF parrot finch. ..shame anyway. .but that's how they roll in Europe. ...

Agree with your guesses on 1 and 3, but two has the look of a Zeb round the face. Have to agree that none of them are a pinch on what nature started out with.
LML

finchbird2015 wrote:Hi Blue Cuban is that last bird a Gouldian? what are the rest?

Sorry I'm not too sure.
At a guess I would say they are a mix of diamonds, double bars, plum-heads possibly zebs and maybe orange waxbill.
Like I said I'm only guessing but I'm sure the "A Team" (admins) would have a more educated guess.

Rich.

I'd say VP is right with 1 & 3 but 2 looks to me like Diamie X Zeb.

Tiaris wrote:I'd say VP is right with 1 & 3 but 2 looks to me like Diamie X Zeb.

Yeah I thought zeb but spots threw me that's why I went plum head or painted to diamond....or diamond Longtail maybe?

Yep found a pic of diamond x zeb....pic number 2 is that

vettepilot_6 wrote:Yep found a pic of diamond x zeb....pic number 2 is that

Diamonds and Zeb's are close relatives, l wonder if this cross is fertile and began the fawn and pied diamond from cross backs,just a thought imo. Craig

The Pieds were developed in Australia from Diamonds showing just a couple of stray white feathers & established from them without hybrids.
There are also 2 types of fawns in Diamonds, autosomal recessive & sex-linked (probably actually fawn and cinnamon). The sex-linked is the established one (most common). The recessive one looks slightly more attractive with retained black areas without dilution but is still quite rare. I know that the recessive one at least is from mutated pure Diamond stock.