Aussie Finch Forum

Jayburd
Did you get any B/H/Nuns.
I am going to Geelong after Easter to pick some up. I think he has some more good young ones avail.
His asking price is $40 each, if you are after some let me know and I will bring them back.
I can hold them in my bird room and most likely I or some one else from here will be going into your area.
You can fix me up then.
let me know asap as I will need to contact him again.

Thanks for remembering E Orix,

No thanks, decided against it as I already have tri Nuns.

Thanks anyway!

Unfortunately I can't offer any - they are the most common of the native finches here in the Philippines and go for between PhP40-100 (AUD$1-2.5) each. I've had 6 in my aviary for nearly 2 years and they haven't done a thing so if you have any hints on breeding I like to hear. We had our Easter holiday on Mindanao (no sign of the red-eared parrotfinch) and I did see that the Nuns were constructuing nests and breeding there. The nests I saw were were 4-5m off the ground (in palm & pine trees) and were constucted from coarse palm fiber.

I bet these munia are easy to breed in Australia. My theory is that anything left in Australia has been selected for its ability to breed in captivity. The only wild munia Iv've ever bred are Java sparrows and they are one step up from zebs it seems.

Greg, maybe it's time to put a couple of new B/H in the avairy to stir things up. Sometimes that's all it takes. Of course if it doesn't work, you'll have 8 birds sitting round eating seed and looking impressive and not much else.
LML