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Bullfinch. were these ever imported into Australia?

Posted: 12 Mar 2016, 15:47
by casehulsebosch
The Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) were these ever imported by the early settlers into Australia?

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cheers, case

Re: Bullfinch. were these ever imported into Australia?

Posted: 12 Mar 2016, 18:14
by elferoz777
From what i have heard they were but were and still hard to breed (os that is).

Would be mice for an old hand to twll some history.

they are my favourite finch based on photos.

Re: Bullfinch. were these ever imported into Australia?

Posted: 13 Mar 2016, 18:32
by E Orix
The last ones I saw were in the late Ken Forbes collection.
They were the UK race Pink CB and Greyish F
That was back in the early 1980's

Re: Bullfinch. were these ever imported into Australia?

Posted: 20 Mar 2016, 12:58
by casehulsebosch
Thanks for the replies.

Was lucky enough to see plenty of them in Europe last year.
Also a large number of different colour mutations around there.
From the numbers I would suggest not too hard to breed.

cheers, case

Re: Bullfinch. were these ever imported into Australia?

Posted: 22 May 2017, 17:39
by starman
casehulsebosch wrote: 12 Mar 2016, 15:47 The Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) were these ever imported by the early settlers into Australia?
cheers, case
Some history of imports of Old World finches into Aus/NZ on page 1302 of this free pdf download.(28 pages).
http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/sites/all/f ... dfinch.pdf
I have not read it all yet but it looks interesting from a brief perusal.

Re: Bullfinch. were these ever imported into Australia?

Posted: 22 May 2017, 20:09
by elferoz777
A good read thanks for sharing