A photojournalist seeks help with bird identification

[BorRed]

Hello

I am a photojournalist and I am working on a (documentary) photo series covering the bird breeding culture in the Caribbean.

Can anyone help me to identify the bird species shown on the following pictures (B03, B04, B05, B06), please?

All pictures were shot on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

BorRed

 

[texsize]

2 middle pictures are finches but don’t know what type.

 

[chris-md]

First one is a lovebird

 

[Terry57]

Welcome to the forum!

I agree #1 is definitely a Lovebird (perhaps Black-Masked Lovebirds /Agapornis personatus?)

#2 looks like a Tricoloured munia (Lonchura malacca)

#3 looks like a mix of Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) & Society/Bengalese Finches (Lonchura striata domestica)

 

[charmedbyekkie]

Wondering if the last photo is of a juvenile brown-headed cowbird mid-molt into adult feathers.

 

[Rozalka]

I'm not lovebird expert but this one in the background (which has the most black head) as Terry mentioned - seems to be masked lovebird. I'm not sure the other two lovebirds. They may be a hybrid between masked and Fischer's, especially the lovie on the right (background) looks like a hybrid to me. Anyway they are lovebirds in 100%

 

[Cardinal]

Hello

I am a photojournalist and I am working on a (documentary) photo series covering the bird breeding culture in the Caribbean.

Can anyone help me to identify the bird species shown on the following pictures (B03, B04, B05, B06), please?

All pictures were shot on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

BorRed

1. B03- Blue or Purple Fischers Lovebird
https://birdloverboy.wordpress.com/...ar-species-of-african-lovebird-in-aviculture/

There could be masked genes in them but they are 90% Fishers Lovebird

2. B04. Tricolored Munia from Southern India

3. B05 The birds on the left are Bengalese finches and the birds on right are Zebra finches

4. I have no clue

Colombia in South America is it?? Where was it taken? in a pet shop or a bird market or a home?

 

[Cardinal]

The 4th one is some kind of grassquit according to google lens.
I will do some research and narrow it to the exact species. Possibly a native bird of Colombia.

 

[Rozalka]

Hello

I am a photojournalist and I am working on a (documentary) photo series covering the bird breeding culture in the Caribbean.

Can anyone help me to identify the bird species shown on the following pictures (B03, B04, B05, B06), please?

All pictures were shot on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

BorRed

1. B03- Blue or Purple Fischers Lovebird
https://birdloverboy.wordpress.com/...ar-species-of-african-lovebird-in-aviculture/

There could be masked genes in them but they are 90% Fishers Lovebird

Basing on your link: the lovebird on the right may be Fischer's lovebird but not really other two because blue Fischer's lovebirds have a white forehead. This one on the left background I'm sure it isn't Fisher's lovebird. These two species are easy to crossbreed and hybrids are fertile. If the bird once time was crossed and next all their children, grandchildren, great-granchildren etc, were bred with one species, they still are hybrids.

 

[Cardinal]

Basing on your link: the lovebird on the right may be Fischer's lovebird but not really other two because blue Fischer's lovebirds have a white forehead. This one on the left background I'm sure it isn't Fisher's lovebird. These two species are easy to crossbreed and hybrids are fertile. If the bird once time was crossed and next all their children, grandchildren, great-granchildren etc, were bred with one species, they still are hybrids.

Hi Rozalka!

You are right indeed. I completely overlooked the bird in the left in the background. So I stand corrected. Yes it is one of the tragedies of Bird keeping that these two spectacular species are hybridised so frequently, so much so that now the Wild form of the Yellow Collared Lovebird is no longer available in many parts of the wild and this is also true to a lesser extent for the the Fischer's lovebird.

My reassessment now is

the bird on the front perched is 90+% Fishers
the bird in the right could be a hybrid but is still 60% or more Fishers
while the bird in the Background is 80% or more masked (Y.C) lovebird

cheers

Even our icon is unfortunately a hybrid of Fishers and Masked.

 

[BorRed]

Thanks for your comments! I appreciate them.

BorRed