Top 7 Finches | Finch birds | Birds Fantasy
Finches are small sparrow-like birds. They are beautiful and active birds and its always fun to watch them in a cage or colonies. Most of the finch mutations are available in different beautiful colors. Finches are easy to handle birds. Mostly seed eaters and breed exceptionally well in cages or colonies. People love to keep them as pet birds.
There is a number of finches in pet birds market, but certain verities are best sellers. If you keep them in your home and get a breed, they will bring good earning. So, which top 7 finches are best sellers in pet birds trade that can also easily breed? If you are finch lover and intend to keep finches as pet birds and want a good finch breed to earn money, you are in right place. I will discuss the top 7 finches and explain their general as well as breeding behavior.
| Gouldian Finches |
Finches are now available in different beautiful colors and mutations. Birds fanciers are working hard for getting breed of these lovely birds. But they are not getting good results in terms of financial gains. It is need of the hour to work smart instead of only work hard to earn some money in bird’s business. How a bird fancier can do a smart work in birds’ business? Keep an eye on pet birds market trends and only keep those birds that have good market demand. When you want to sell the bird it should not be a cumbersome affair. Keep those birds that have good price tags and people love to buy them. These all are smart work techniques.
Now coming back to the topic if you are finch lover and want to keep finches then which type of finch birds you should keep? Here is the list of top 7 finch birds to keep.
1. Strawberry Finches
The red avadavat (Amandava), red munia or strawberry finch, is a sparrow-sized bird of the family
It is found in the open fields and prairies of tropical Asia and is well known as a captivity bird because of the vivid plumage of the male in their breeding season. It breeds in the Indian Subcontinent in the rainstorm season.
The species name of amandava and the regular name of avadavat is gotten from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, from where these beautiful birds were exported into the pet trade.
| Strawberry Finch |
| Red Munia Finch |
They are seed eaters, however, like to eat insects and termites as well.
2. Star finches
Star finches are native of northern Australia.
between 4.5—5 inches long, with blood-red fore-parts of the head and a red bill. The upper and lower plumage is yellow-green, white-spotted on the underparts, the tummy progressively yellow.
| Star Finch |
The upper tail coverts are red, tail plumes are tannish red. The female has less red on the head, and for the most part blunter than the male, the juvenile star finch is olive to caramel with a dark face and head.
3. The Gouldian finch
Gouldian or lady Gouldian or rainbow finches are native of Australia. Both male and females Gouldian finches have bright red green and yellow markings. Females lesser bright colours as compared to male birds.
One major indication of the male is that males have a purple chest whereas the female has a lighter mauve colour on her chest. Gouldian finches might be seen in black yellow or red colour of heads.
| Lady Gold Finch |
Gouldian finches are mainly seed eaters. They breed from September to April when there is much food available. The female lays 4-8 eggs both male and female hatch the eggs. Chicks usually self between 20 to 23 days. But they take 40 days to be completely independent.
They are reportedly not a good parent and often abandon feeding their chicks. People use foster birds like Bengalis finch to overcome this issue.
4. Society finch, Bengalese finches
Society or Bengalese finches are good foster birds and they breed exceptionally well. They are cage birds and not found in the wild.
Society or Bengalese finches are excellent cage birds. And breed flawlessly in the company of a human. The best pairing for the fostering purpose is to pair a male with another male. And give them fertile eggs. They will accept the eggs, hatch and feed the chicks. Males are best for fostering and work better as compared to both females or male-female pairing. The best breed is possible in one by one cage.
| Society finch |
5. Zebra finch
Zebra finches are the most common finch birds of central Australia. They generally live in arid zones where water is closely available or concentrated rainwater can be available. Their breed starts in rainfall till November.
They prefer to breed in loose colonies of 50 odds nests. Females lays 5 to 8 eggs. They are incubated for 14 to 16 days. Chicks leave the nest about 17 to 18 days of hatching and get completely independent around 35 days.
| Zebra Finch |
| Zebra Female Finch |
Both the males and females are of same size. But males are easily distinguished from females after reaching their maturity. Males usually have bright orange cheeks and bright red beak as compared to the female that have orange beaks.
6. Owl finches
Owl finches are native of northern and eastern Australia. Their main body colours are black white and brown.
Double-barred or dark patches around their face make them barn owl-like shape. Both the male and female are identical in the colour pattern. but younger birds have a brownish appearance.
They are excellent cage birds and breed fantastically in captivity. However, they can not bear severe hot or cold conditions. They like to eat seeded sprouts millets and seeds.
The only way to identify male or female is singing as only male tends to sing.
7. Java finches
Java finches are native of Bali or Java islands in Indonesia. This beautiful bird now has different colour mutations. Both male and females are similar in appearance.
Younger birds have brown upperparts and yellowish-brown down parts.
These gorgeous little birds mainly eat seeds.
| Java Grey Finch |
| Java Finch |
Java finches are best cage birds and now available in different colours and appearances. White java and grey java are the most favorite among the birds fanciers.
