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hi all, ive read on finch info, ebird and birdfinding.info about yellow and cinnamon tri colour munia, theyve got pics too. however on youtube there are multiple videos where there are tri colour munia in all colours from yellow orange and pink to green. the green are obviously dyed green? which leads me to presume the orange and yellow are too? so is it possible these wild mutations are infact escaped dyed birds? the only thing thats thrown me off is the pic of a juvenile? curious if anyone has any info? many thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4UGvhbK1Is

https://birdfinding.info/tricolored-munia/

http://www.finchinfo.com/birds/finches/ ... _munia.php

Looks like one of those asia bird markets where they dye everything to catch the eye. In the bottom 2 photos.
The top three? I have not seen or heard of this. But it could indeed be possible as could inos.
If anyone else out there has seen something out of the standard would love to know.

Asian markets do all sorts of ridiculous things to birds and tropical fish just to make look pretty to potential buyers.
They are so cheap that dyed birds are bought and released by the the buyers and it's meant for good luck charm.
In Europe they specialise in mutations and for what they can produce but usually washed out wild colours mutations and also black and white birds.

As it would appear the top 2 photos are from India itself where the birds are native - perhaps they could be genuine or taken in yellow light to enhance slight natural yellowing.
The middle photo is supposed to be a european bred mutation, so again possible but likely to be taken in colour enhancing lighting.