About Lady Finches
The Gouldian Finch is approximately 130″140 mm long. Both sexes are brightly colored with black, green, yellow, red and other colors. The female Gouldian Finch has a dull coloring compared to the male. One major difference between the sexes is that the male’s chest is purple, while the female’s is a lighter mauve color.
Gouldian Finches heads may be red, black, or yellow. People used to think they were three different species of finches, but now it is identified that they are color variants that exist in the wild. Selective breeding has also developed mutations (blue, yellow and silver instead of green back) in body color and breast color.
This bird is found in northern Australia: the Cape York Peninsula through north-west Queensland and the northern Northern Territory to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Lady Gouldian Finch habitat is tropical savannah timberlands. The Birds are nomadic within a relatively tiny region approx 40 sq kilometers and only move when water or food becomes scarce.
The Gouldian Finch is declining in numbers rapid through the last 100 years with no mare than 2,500 mature birds found in the wild landing them on the endangered species list. Current efforts are underway to help bring back natural wild populations in remote parts of Australia. However, efforts to re-introduce the Birds in the wild have been unsucessfull to this point.
