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African Citril (Serinus Citrinelloides Frontalis) from Western Uganda. Adult male: Bright yellow from forehead to area over eye.
Available for sale on the 20th of November.

New release of Softbill and Finches available around November 20th.

New Release on September 17. Birds from S. America, Africa and Europe

Black Crowned Waxill - Estrilda Nonnula
Description:
Black capped grey and white waxbill with a red rump, has distinctive white underpants including the vents.Bill red and black. Female has less red on the flanks and immature is plainer and duller than adult.
High-pitched and sibilant sii-sii-sii...,song consists of rising and falling tinkling notes eventhough the song is rarely heard.

Black Throated Canary

New birds available:
Black Throated Canary from Africa.

COMMON WAXBILL - ESTRILDA ASTRILD
Description
Size: 4.25-5 inches.
Adult: finely barred, except for pale face, brigh red eye-stripe, wax-red bill and small pinkish patch on lower breast and belly.
Juvenille: very faintly barred (looks, plain), pale red through eye; black bill, pale buff-brown underparts.
Call: commonest call is a sharp, abrupt 'pit' or 'tchick', often repeated when alarmed or excited, also a soft 'chip' and a nasal 'cher-cher-cher'.
Song: is a low, harsh rising 'tcher-tcher-preeee', 'cher-cher-cher', occasionally followed by a 'dit' note or a descending 'chewi-chee'

BLACK BELLIED FIREFINCH - LAGONOSTICTA RARA
Description
Size: 4 inches
Male: dull crimson except for brighter rump and uppertail-coverts; centre of lower breast to lower flanks and undertail-coverts black.
Female: gray head and face; bright red spot on lores, pale buff throat, pinkish underparts, blackish from lower belly to undertail.
Call: a repeated sharp 'chek' or 'tseeay', also a soft nasal 'keeyh' or 'squeer'.
Song: a variable jumble of low-pitched phrases and a Greenfinch like trilling ending with a whistling 'tyee tyee tyee' or 'tew tew tew'.

BLACK FACED FIREFINCH - LAGONOSTICTA LARVATA
Description
Size: 4.5 inches
Male nigricollis: Dark grey upperparts, except bright crimson rump and uppertail-coverts; pale lavender underparts, small white spots on sides of lower breast.
Female nigricollis: similar to nominate female, but slightly paler brown or gray-brown upperparts with pale or buff-brown underparts.
Call: a weak lipsing note.
Song: is very similar to that of African Firefinch.

RED BILLED FIREFINCH - LAGNOSTICTA SENEGALA
DescriptionSize: 4 inches
Male: bright pink bill, pale yellow eye-ring, tiny white spots on sides of breast.Female: pale pink bill and red spot on lores, white spots on side of breast and flanks.Call: a soft but thin or high-pitched 'dwee', 'uee', or 'tweet', often repeated as a double note. The alarm is a low pitched and abrupt 'tzet', 'chuck', or 'clook', often repeated rapidly.Song: is a series of soft, rising, twittering whistling notes which include the 'tset' call at the start.

AFRICAN FIREFINCH - LAGONOSTICTA RUBRICATA
Description
Size: 4-4.5 inches
Male: Reddish from crown to nape; belly to undertail-coverts black, blue-gray base to bil.
Female: paler than male; buff-brown from belly to undertail coverts.
Call: is a rising trilling twitter, loosely interpreted as 'trrrrrr-t' or a simple 'trrrrrr', and a loud ringing 'chew-chew-chew-chew' or 'chwee chwee chwee' occasionally 'chub chub chub chub' or 'feeeu feeeu', all of which may be followed by a 'wink wink wink'.
Song: given by both sexes, consists of various ringing notes repeated in a random sequence, interspersed with squaeky whistles, trills and warbles.

WESTERN BLUEBILL - SPERMOPHAGA HAEMATINA
Description
Size: 6 inches
Male bill blue with red tip; red from chin to breast and flanks, broke pale whitish-blue eye ring.
Female: bill as male but less red at tip; face black, washed red or maroon.
Call: is a fairly sharp (or can be soft to almost inaudible) 'tip', 'tsik', 'tsip', or even a more drawn-out 'tsee'; has a strong Sylvia warble-like 'tack', often repeated in alarm.
Song: is a low clucking series of 'tack' notes rising into a trill before dying away.

CRIMSON SEEDCRACKER - PYRENESTES SANGUINEUS
Description
Size: 5 - 5.5 inches.
Male: massive bill; rounded or domed glossy red head, red breast, and flanks
Female: red on nape and lower breast duller than male.
Juvenile: no red on brown head and breast
Call: is a sharp 'zeet'.
Song: is a short, pleasant warble.

ETHIOPIAN CRIMSONWING - CRYPTOSPIZA SALVADORII
Description
Size: 4.5 inches.
Male: similar to male Red Faced Crimsonwing, but lacks red face patch and red on secondaries.
Female: similar to female Red Faced Crimsonwing, but lacks pale buff face patch and body is grayish-olive.
Call: is a soft 'teep' or variation thereof, 'tseep-tseep' and 'chip chip'.
Song: is a repetition of the call, but also has a rarely heard soft and melodic 'dee-goo-goo-day-dee'

RED FACED CRIMSONWING - CRYPTOSPIZA REICHENOVII
Description
Size: 4.25-4.75 inches.
Male: red face patch and red on lower flanks.
Female: yellowish-buff face patch; dark olive-green feather bases to mantle and back show through.
Juvenile: duller olive or browner than adult; reddish tinge to flanks, back and edges to wing-coverts and tertials.
Call: generally silent, but has a sharp or high pitched 'chirp' or 'tzeet' and a loose collection of similar notes.
Song: is soft inaudible beyond 3-4 meter and variable consisting mostly of long drawn out notes on a descending sclae followed by a chirp.

DYBOWSKI'S DUSKY TWINSPOT - EUSCHISTOSPIZA DYBOWSKII
Description
Size: 4.75 inches.
Male: crimson from mantle to uppertail-coverts, white spots on black flanks
Female: duller than male; crimson upperparts broken by brown feather bases showing through, wings browner than male, generally more spotted on flanks.
Juvenile: slate-gray body, dull reddish-brown upperparts unspotted.
Call: a soft and quickly repeated 'tset' or 'tsit-tsit', also used as an alarm note but much louder, becoming 'tsit-tsit-tsit'.
Song consists of a variety of trills and phrases suggestive of a Canary variety, deep bubbling notes of a Nightingale and flute-like phrases of a Black bird.

PETER'S TWINSPOTS - HYPARGOS NIVEOGUTTATUS
Description:
Size: 4.75-5 inches
Male: bright red from face to breast; rump to tail bright red, underparts (except vent and undertail-coverts) spotted with white.
Female: yellowish-buff from face to breast; rump to tail red.
Juvenile: warm brown or russet-brown underparts; blackish from belly to undertail-coverts.
Call: generally silent, but give a quiet hissing note; also 'tseet' is used as contact call, as is a longer more drawn-out and louder, cricket-like trill 'trree-rree'.
Song: is a feeble and suttering trill and continues with short whistling or clucking notes.

GREEN BACKED TWINSPOTS - MANDINGOA NITIDULA
Description
Size: 4-4.25"
Male: bright red from bill to eye; orange chin, bright olive-green breast and upperparts.
Female: pale yellow from bill to eye; greenish-olive throat and breast.
Juvenile: pale buff from bill to eye; gray-green upperparts, green wings and tail.
Call: is a chirping or squeaky 'tzeeet' or 'tseeeht', also various other short 'tak' or 'tek' notes. Alarm call: 'tsit-tsit' nte, occasionally followed by 'terr'.
Song: is a subdued series of trill intespersed with whistling and call notes.

GREEN-WINGED PYTILIA - PYTILIA MELBA
Description
Size: 4.75-5 inches
Male: grayish lores, uniform olive-green mantle, back and wings; breast green, underparts heavily barred or spotted.
Female: gray head, dull green mantle, back and wings; underparts barred dark gray and white.
Call: is a thin 'see-eh', also a low 'wick' or 'wit' note.
Song: is an attractive series of quiet trills with accasional whistles, 'trreeeeee chrroooooo'.

ORANGE-WINGED PYTILITA - PYTILIA AFRA
Description
Size: 4.25-4.5 inches
Male: bright orange in wing, red face, and dull olive-yellow underparts barred whitish.
Female: head and face gray, yellowish-orange in wing, underparts more broadly barred, white belly.
Call: is a single flat 'see'.
Song: is a piping two or three notes rattling whistle, often repeated in quick succession.

RED/CRIMSON-WINGED PYTILIA - PYTILIA PHOENICOPTERA
Description
Size: 5 inches
Male: black bill; crimwon wing, rump and tail.
Female: similar to male but paler underparts
Call: is an occasional chirp.
Song: is variable, is a repeated series of rattling notes followed by a croaky wishtle.

GRAY HEADED OLIVE BACK - NESOCHARIS CAPISTRATA
Description
Size: 5.5 inches
Adult: gray head, white face, black from chin to sides of neck; olive back and wings, bright yellow flanks.
Juvenille: dark gray head and face, dull buff-brown flanks.
Call: generally silent.
Song: a pleasant song, a soft descending 'chwee chweee chweee-chwi'

BLACK SISKIN - CARDUELIS ATRATA
Description
Size: 4.75-5 inches
Male: very obvious black and yellow; pale or abraded tips to secondaries and tertials in worn plumage.
Female: as male but sooty - or blackish-brown; some birds show yellowish thip to median coverts.
Call: is a decending 'p'seew', a melancholy 'hear-r', a rolling 'hew-lili', and a low chatter.
Song: apparantly similar to that of Yellow-rumped siskin.

HOODED SISKIN - CARDUELIS MAGELLANICA
Description
Size: 4.25-4.5 inches
Male: black from head to upper breast; thin yellow collar and yellow underparts, wingbars, rump and sides to base of tail.
Female: dull olive with dull yellow wingbars, brighter on rump and sides to base of tail; greenish-yellow breast and flanks; belly and undertail-coverts whitish.
Call: is a ling triling 'trrrrr' or a repeated 'djey djey'.
Song: is a variey of short twittering 'tseet-tseet', 'tseet-weet' pr 'tseet-weet-aweeta' notes with frequently repeated phrases.

SIBERIAN GOLDFINCH - CARDUELIS CARDUELIS MAJOR
Description:
Size: 6-6.5 inches
Male: very distinctive, red on face extends slightly behind eye
Female: as male, but red on face extends only to eye.
Call: is a shrill or ringing 'pee-uu' or 'tsee-yu', occasionally followed by a twittering note in flight; alarm call is a harsh or grating 'zeez' or 'eeez'.
Song: is a pleasant and very characteristic rapid tinkling 'tswit-witt-witt' repeated with various twittering, buzzing 'zee-zee' notes added, creating a fast and liquid canary-like song.

GREENFINCH - CARDUELIS CHLORIS
Description:
Size: 5-6.25"
Adult male: extensive yellow edges to primaries; greater coverts and edges to secondaries and teritials gray; yellow sides to base of tail.
Adult female: duller than male; gray-brown upperparts and yellow at sides of base of tail.
Call: is a harsh twittering 'twichit' or 'twichichichit', occasionally given as an individual 'chit' 'chip' or 'teu teu' or variations, and a sharp, rising 'swee-it' or 'tsooeet' is the alarm call.
Song: is a repeated collection of phrases incorporating the call notes, usually beginning with dry nasal trill and continuing with a slowly rising 'teu teu teu teu', interspersed with a 'tswee' or 'zeee' note.

EURASIAN LINNET - CARDUELIS CANNABINA
Description:
Size: 5.25"
Adult male: gray head, warm brown mantle and back, crimson forehad and breast patch; white flash in open wing.
Adult female: duller brown than male, with darker streaks; pale face and underparts streaked dark brown.
Call: rapid, trilling, 'chi chi chi chit', also gives a very soft or subdued 'too tee' or 'too hwee' during breeding season, a sharp 'tsooeet' is given as an alrm or anxiety call.
Song: is a soft and varied musical warble interspersed with twitters and trills.

YELLOW-RUMPED SEEDEATER - SERINUS ATROGULARIS
Description:
Size: 4.25"
Sexes alike
Adult: small and gray-brown; distinctive bright yellow rump, thin pale supercilium, pale buff double wingbars and light buff-brown underparts.
Juvenile: similar to adult but warmer buff-brown; chin and throat withish with dark spots, becoming streaks on breast.
Contact call: is a rising 'tswee' or 'tsuii'; in flight gives a double chirrup note.
Song: Canary-like song, sustained and rambling with repeated phrases, often delivered from a tree top, and is one of the most persistent songsters of Southern Africa.

White Rumped Seedeater - Serinus Leucopygius
Description:
Size: 4-4.5 inches
Sexes alike
Adult: pale gray-brown except for white rump and thing wingbar.
Juvenile: similar to adult or slightly warmer brown, has more streaks or spots on underparts.
Call: call is underscribed
Song: is rather subdued but clear, sweet and Canary-like quality

AFRICAN CITRIL - SERINUS CITRINELLOIDES
Description:
Size: 4.75 inches
Male: black forehead, cheeks, lores and chin; pale yellow thin double wingbar, thin yellow supercilium.
Female: duller than male; dull olive face, short and thin supercilium, more heavily streaked above and below.
Call: is a soft clicking 'cheep', alarm call a soft 't, t, tee', and there is also a subdued twittering note, often given in flight.
Song is loud and Canary-like or Linnet-like, but sweeter in tone, with a clean piping wishtle of three or four notes, 'tweet-ti-tu'.

BRIMSTONE CANARY - SERINUS SULPHURATUS
Description:
Size: 6-6.5 inches
Male: face pattern similar to yellow canary but cheek patch more diffuse; largver, with bigger bil, bright yellow wingbars, greenish rump and dull greenish yellow underparts.
Female: similar to male but duller, with poorly defined face pattern, duller wingbars and pale supercilium.
Call: varies with locality, a harsh or throaty 'chirrup' or 'chee-u-wee'.
Song: is often delivered from a prominent perc and is a sweet and varied in tone.

Description: Size 4.25-5 inches
Adult Male: distinctive head and face pattern, bright yellow underparts and rump; tail can appear notched or slightly forked at rest.
Adult Female: upperparts greyer than male, rump yellow, head pattern less well defined
Juvenile: similar to adult female, but pale yellow face and breast, dull greenish-yellow rump and spots or streaks on sides of breast.
Call is a single or double 'tsssp' note, 'tseeuu', 'swee-et' or 'zeee-zeree-chereeo'.
Song is lively and rather canary-like but repetitive, and often delivered in short burts.