#rainbow finch

[bronzesplce]

My latest dinos 🦖🦜

Welcome Oviraptor and Hatzegopteryx (requested) loved drawing these guys

[elliejaybird]

Cursed Finch Folk (Former Humans)

[shithowdy]

some Gouldian/Gould’s/Rainbow finches at the AKL zoo

[prettyspacehappyplace]

Rainbow finch

Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver, BC

[bronzesplce]

My latest dinos 🦖🦜

Welcome Oviraptor and Hatzegopteryx (requested) loved drawing these guys

[woodenislands]

Fresh off the workbench! 🌈✨ I just finished whittling and painting this vibrant Gouldian Finch friend (often called the Rainbow Finch!). Getting to play with such a brilliant, bold palette was an absolute joy—from that deep purple chest and bright yellow belly to the striking green back and fiery face.

[ainawgsd]

The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae), also known as the Lady Gouldian finch, Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colorful passerine bird which is native to Australia. Both sexes are brightly colored with black, green, yellow, and red markings. Gouldian finches' heads may be red, black, or yellow. Formerly considered three different kinds of finches, it is now known that these are color variants that exist in the wild. Selective breeding has also developed mutations (blue, yellow and silver instead of a green back) in both body and breast color.

1. Wild-type Red Headed, Wild-type Orange Headed mutation, Wild-type Black        Headed mutation

2. White Breasted (red headed) mutation

3.  Yellow Head Lilac Breast Single Factor Pastel Green

4. Blue mutation

5. Yellow Back (orange headed) mutation

6. Australian Yellow 

7.  Silver Back / Lilac Breast / Yellow Head

8. Australian Dilute

9. Blue (black headed)

10. Sea Green

Mutations vary by country, with some existing only in Australia (the Australian yellow and the Australian "dilute") and others existing in greater number in the United States, such as the blue bodied Gouldian. The most common body mutations in the United States are blue, pastel green (single and double-factor, resulting in "dilute" and yellow males and yellow females), and pastel blue (again, single and double-factor producing "pastel" and silver males, and silver hens). There is also a lutino and albino mutation in the United States, established by Winnie McAlpin of Delmar Aviaries.

[megnutk]

day 11 of my 30-day random word challenge was “bird”. So here’s some pretty boibs!