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Photo Gallery updated & weaver females

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Subject: Photo Gallery updated & weaver females
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:55:13 -0800
Benj,
 
I think there are lots, of both of these species (red bishop and grenadier weaver or is it the Madagascar Weaver) at the walk in aviary at Gold Creek. Try your luck there. Damn difficult to tell them apart though and I don't know that I really was getting it right. One of them is patterned remarkably like a female House Sparrow, the other is only generally similar to a female House Sparrow. Of course they are noticeably smaller and a slightly different shape. The coloured males are black and orangish only in different parts. Then of course there is the female Jacarini finches, Cuban finches etc, a real puzzle (but they are smaller than the weavers). 
 
Philip
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