Aussie Finch Forum

I've recently discovered that there is a 'large' green singer, which is differant to the Green singer as I know it. The common green singer is known as the small green singer.
Does anyone have any info on the large? I've searched the net but didn't find a great deal.

well, the large green singer has apparently died out in Oz now, but the singer we have today is supposedly a mix of the two... off to read G. B.'s article in the newest Aviary Life to see what he said...

Thanks JB. Let me know what you find out from the article.

I doubt if you will access what we called the big Singer.
As for the common little Singer they look pretty pure to me after seeing many in the wild.
Maybe not as bright yellow but size and type seems OK.

bleeding green wrote:I've recently discovered that there is a 'large' green singer, which is differant to the Green singer as I know it. The common green singer is known as the small green singer.
Does anyone have any info on the large? I've searched the net but didn't find a great deal.

Here in Europe we call serinus flaviventris large green singer. http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/bir ... entris.htm

dukem wrote:

bleeding green wrote:I've recently discovered that there is a 'large' green singer, which is differant to the Green singer as I know it. The common green singer is known as the small green singer.
Does anyone have any info on the large? I've searched the net but didn't find a great deal.

Here in Europe we call serinus flaviventris large green singer. http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/bir ... entris.htm

Yes that's what they are! "Large Green Singer" is definitely a wrong name, In Europe they are common Aviary birds, better known as "Yellow Canary", I would say another a little ambiguous name http://www.fotosearch.com/AGE038/a03-420491/ The female being brown-greyish bird. The last time I saw them was in mid-eighties at "Living Jungle" at Bestic Street ROCKDALE bird shop, he wanted $300 for a male probably already infertile bird. In mid-nineties Queensland Finch Society had 6 or so birds according to some all infertile. The last known hen was at John Albert's collection. There could be some in other breeders collections, a guy at Muswellbrook NSW may still have some. I had Redpolls until recently, there wouldn't be many of those in the country either.

Netsurfer wrote:

dukem wrote:

bleeding green wrote:I've recently discovered that there is a 'large' green singer, which is differant to the Green singer as I know it. The common green singer is known as the small green singer.
Does anyone have any info on the large? I've searched the net but didn't find a great deal.

Here in Europe we call serinus flaviventris large green singer. http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/bir ... entris.htm

Yes that's what they are! "Large Green Singer" is definitely a wrong name, In Europe they are common Aviary birds, better known as "Yellow Canary", I would say another a little ambiguous name http://www.fotosearch.com/AGE038/a03-420491/ The female being brown-greyish bird. The last time I saw them was in mid-eighties at "Living Jungle" at Bestic Street ROCKDALE bird shop, he wanted $300 for a male probably already infertile bird. In mid-nineties Queensland Finch Society had 6 or so birds according to some all infertile. The last known hen was at John Albert's collection. There could be some in other breeders collections, a guy at Muswellbrook NSW may still have some. I had Redpolls until recently, there wouldn't be many of those in the country either.

Why you say they are infertile ?
Dont make sense only make sense if the bird was very old.

I think Netsurfer meant is there are now just a few old infertile birds left in Australia.

Netsurfer wrote:

dukem wrote:

bleeding green wrote:I've recently discovered that there is a 'large' green singer, which is differant to the Green singer as I know it. The common green singer is known as the small green singer.
Does anyone have any info on the large? I've searched the net but didn't find a great deal.

Here in Europe we call serinus flaviventris large green singer. http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/bir ... entris.htm

Yes that's what they are! "Large Green Singer" is definitely a wrong name, In Europe they are common Aviary birds, better known as "Yellow Canary", I would say another a little ambiguous name http://www.fotosearch.com/AGE038/a03-420491/ The female being brown-greyish bird. The last time I saw them was in mid-eighties at "Living Jungle" at Bestic Street ROCKDALE bird shop, he wanted $300 for a male probably already infertile bird. In mid-nineties Queensland Finch Society had 6 or so birds according to some all infertile. The last known hen was at John Albert's collection. There could be some in other breeders collections, a guy at Muswellbrook NSW may still have some. I had Redpolls until recently, there wouldn't be many of those in the country either.

the guy at muswellbrook is now in his 90s and his collection has been sold off long ago . the last large green singer he held would have been in the early 1990s at the very latest.

I live in Portugal and i never saw one they are super rare in here. But i breed a similar specie Serinus Dorsostriatus and the litle ones green singer, grey singer and some rare serinus like serinus flavivertex and serinus hypostictus.

http://serinuspt.wordpress.com/