My new QLD type stars

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Nathan Morleyy

Can eney one buy birds off the zoo?
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Diane
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No they cant, you have truck loads of forms to fill in, then zoo would have to make sure everything is perfect and even then they prefer to give to people that work for or with them, and of course you have to be of legal age.
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Nathan Morleyy

Ok is expensive to buy off the zoo?
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Diane
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Read what I posted again........it means they wouldn't sell to you.
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I imagine experience would play a big role in getting these birds too .
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
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Excellent work with the Stars Danny, I hope that you do well with them and help to secure the variations in captivity.
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I thought they were extinct or just about? That is Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda, with large white spots http://wildlifing.smugmug.com/keyword/h ... 28&k=VUtRd
The subspecies Star Finch (Neochmia ruficauda clarescens) were occasionally available here in Sydney but the prettiest and the most sought after were the western subspecies Neochmia ruficauda subclarescens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tk_five_0/1152221130/
Breeding two subspecies next to each other and not hybridizing in Aviculture is a real achievement! :thumbup:
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casehulsebosch
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I have had the pleasure of seeing hundreds of Neochmia ruficauda subspecies subclarescens in the wild in recent years and would suggest that they have nowhere near the intensity of colours in them that are shown in the first photo shown in this topic.
Captive bred birds that have been selected for colour I would suggest.

Greetings, Case, Tauranga, New Zealand.
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