Foreign Finches gone Wild

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angus
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Interested to know of any wild foreign finches in Australia other than the Spice finch .
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rip64
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reckon Goldfinch and greenfinch are a couple
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Red Bishop and White winged whydah were once but long gone now.
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It isn't a foreign species, but my folks saw some redbrows in the Perth hills the other week. Just a little way from home... Apparently the remnants of aviary escapees from the 1960's.
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yeh defs some up inthe hill spanna but . theres a lil difference between the easterns nd the west the wests legs are a lot paler mor pinkish colour than them of the eastern.
just thought id put it up here
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a wild colony of redbrows yes. The same area would also be gold finches, was redbrow , chestnuts at lake monger....
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Used to be colony of Red Whiskered Bulbuls around St.Marys area years ago...
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The bulbuls are still around in the Richmond / Windsor area.
Life in Port Macquarie is the ultimate Aussie sea change lifestyle.
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wagga wrote:The bulbuls are still around in the Richmond / Windsor area.
Maybe they increased their range? from St.Marys to Windsor
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I heard many years ago of some wild munia / mannikins ( nuns /tri ) around rural northern nsw . in some farming areas: irragation/crop growing districts ?
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