Indian Silver Bill and African Silver Bill

Indian Silver Bill and African Silver Bill

Indian Silver Bill and African Silver Bill

These two birds are grass finches and are close cousins, though found in different parts of the world as their names imply ... from Africa and Asia respectively where they are widespread.

The females are similiar in colorings but smaller in size than the male Silver-Bills, like others in the family they eat grass seeds. They live in small family groups and the pairs are very attatched to each other, this story from a victorian traveller's journal ...

“about Calcutta, the Indian Silver Bill is frequently tamed; and a pair always being kept in the same cage, each bird has a small cord fastened around its body, and the owner holding one bird by its cord, throws up the other in the air, which always returns and sits by its companion”

Finches - Aviary and Cage Birds :

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