Re: Zebra ID Help Please
Posted: 03 Jun 2018, 15:21
No, the mystery female is a Slate (recessive dilute), hence the "faded" tear stripes. If she was a normal grey, she'd look like the other female in the top photo.
your male is BF BB Full Eumo. I have a male just like that.emmo wrote: ↑18 Feb 2017, 17:21 A clutch of 5 Zebra Finches fledged last December. Two were coloured like normals and coloured up to be a normal looking male and a normal looking female. One other was very dark and coloured up to be a charcoal male, complete with cheek patches. The other two were a lighter gray than normal and coloured up to the mystery birds I'd like help identifying please. One looks to be female but with light grey cheek patches. The other looks to be a diluted male charcoal(with zebra tail). I haven't really seen photos of similar looking birds with their colour ID alongside. The incubating/feeding parents are normal looking though I'm sure both carry charcoal and red genes - and there are other birds in the aviary that could have sneaked their genes (also normal/charcoal/red) into the nest.
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