The sex life of Gouldian finches

A male Gouldian finch (Photo: Martybugs, from Wikipedia, under Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0 License)

If you've got seven minutes to spare, you might enjoy this video in which Mark Horstman reports on the extraordinary sex life of the Gouldian finch, where choosing the wrong mate can have very dire consequences.

Dinner time for Gouldians

A nice, albeit short, video of Gouldian finches feeding in an aviary. I don't want to play favourites, but I do love the colour of these birds. It must be amazing to see large flocks of them in the wild.