Lady Gouldian Rainbow Finch. Green Back, Purple Chest, Black Head. Y. F.

Lady Gouldian Rainbow Finch. Green Back, Purple Chest, Black Head. Common Names Lady Gouldian, Rainbow finch, name sometimes shortened to Gould. Origin Australia Area of distribution In the map below, the light green areas represent the historical distribution, while the darker green areas represent the current distribution. Wild Lady Gouldians are considered endangered, as populations are declining. Exports from Australia have been banned since 1960. Description Male: The breast and belly colors are usually used to determine sex. Males will have a brighter and darker color of purple on the chest and the yellow of the belly will be darker and more intense than the female. The green back color and the light blue around the face mask is also darker. Often the face mask in males are larger and clearer than the females, but is not always the case as their are some strains of birds that have equal color in both sex's face mask. The males will also sing a nearly inaudible song while stretching and hopping on the perch. They will usually begin this song long before they have completed their molt into adult colors. Female: The female has more subdued colors on her chest, belly and back. The female's beak will turn from a pearly white to black when she is in breeding condition The Lady Gouldian finch measures about 5 inches from head to tail. In the wild, birds are green-bodied but can have one of three head colors: black (most common), red, and yellow (rarest). Many mutations and suspected mutations exist in aviculture, including: red head (sex-linked dominant) yellow head (autosomal recessive; requires presence of red-head gene to be expressed in the mask color) black head (sex-linked recessive) purple breast (autosomal dominant) white breast (autosomal recessive) lilac breast (autosomal; recessive to purple but dominant to white) blue breasted (may not be a true mutation) (autosomal recessive) blue body (autosomal recessive) seagreen (present in Australia and reported in other countries, but may not be a true mutation) sex-linked pastel ("yellow-body" or "European Yellow/pastel") (sex-linked co-dominant) Australian dilute-backed (only present in Australia; it is a separate mutation from what many American breeders call "Dilute") (autosomal recessive) Australian pastel (autosomal recessive) Australian yellow (present in Australia) (autosomal recessive) cinnamon (present in Europe) (sex-linked recessive) lutino (present in America and Europe) (sex-linked recessive) fallow or red-eye (present in Japan) dark factor (present in Europe) (autosomal dominant) pied