Aussie Finch Forum

Dear All,

I have three finches I am having trouble sexing.

One is a blue headed parrot finch.
Second is a long tail.
Third is a Heck's.

I am having trouble uploading photos

Can anyone Help?

Many thanks Steve

Be great if you can load pics for identification.
Blueface, cock bird has a brighter green body colour and larger blue face. Bright red rump with long pin tail feathers
Hens are usually a lot less brighter coloured than cocks. Cocks are ravenous sex machines that continually chase hens and cocks if there are no hens in the aviary.
Long tails in both Hecks and yellow bill are similar to sex.
Cocks have a larger bib and hens have a smaller tear shape bib.
Cocks have longer pin tail feathers and are more silver on the face and head where hens are grey.

Hi Craig

Thank you for your response,

I have managed to upload the photos below.

Sorry they are upside down

Kind regards

Steve