About Lady Gouldian Finches
Gouldian Finches are nearly 130″140 mm long. Both sexes are brightly colored with black, green, yellow, red and other colors. The female Gouldian Finch tends to be less brightly colored. One leading deviation between the sexes is that the male’s chest is purple, while the female’s is a lighter mauve color.
Gouldian Finch heads may be red, black, or yellow. People used to think they were 3 different kinds of finches, but now it is acknowledged that they are color variants that exist in the wild. Selective breeding has also produced 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 Gouldian Finches habitat is tropical savannah timberlands. The Birds are nomadic within a comparatively tiny area approx 40 sq kilometers and only move when water or food grows scarce.
The Gouldian Finches are declining in numbers rapid through the last 100 years with no mare than 2,500 matured individuals found in thier natural habitat 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.
