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Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 17:14
by angus
Interested to know of any wild foreign finches in Australia other than the Spice finch .
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 18:04
by rip64
reckon Goldfinch and greenfinch are a couple
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 19:58
by Danny
Red Bishop and White winged whydah were once but long gone now.
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 20:00
by spanna
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.
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 20:19
by fincher
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
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 20:43
by Pete Sara
a wild colony of redbrows yes. The same area would also be gold finches, was redbrow , chestnuts at lake monger....
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 20:53
by vettepilot_6
Used to be colony of Red Whiskered Bulbuls around St.Marys area years ago...
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 22:26
by wagga
The bulbuls are still around in the Richmond / Windsor area.
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 22:45
by vettepilot_6
wagga wrote:The bulbuls are still around in the Richmond / Windsor area.
Maybe they increased their range? from St.Marys to Windsor
Re: Foreign Finches gone Wild
Posted: 15 Oct 2011, 11:41
by angus
I heard many years ago of some wild munia / mannikins ( nuns /tri ) around rural northern nsw . in some farming areas: irragation/crop growing districts ?