Freshly grown green seed heads should also be offered frequently. Sprouted seed increases the nutritional value of seed and is a cheap way to improve your birds health.

Seed lacks many essential vitamins and minerals which must be compensated for by introducing other foods. Diet & FeedingĪ quality seed mix including canary seed, various millets and panicum forms the basis of the bengalese finch’s diet. Hybridization is not limited to the closely-related Lonchura family (predominantly found in Asia), as hybrids with Australian species-especially the zebra finch and double-barred finch-have been reported. A colony will construct a communal nest used for roosting and breeding.īengalese finches can hybridize with a wide variety of different species, so avoid keeping individual unpaired birds with other species. They can be housed as single pairs or in a colony, and will happily share an aviary with other placid finches, doves, and quail.

Photo credit: Tim Ellis Housing & Compatibilityīengalese finches can be successfully housed in cages or aviaries. Bengalese finches are popular in aviculture thanks to their low care requirements and propensity to be excellent foster parents. It’s most closely related to the white-rumped munia, and is believed to be an interspecific hybrid of the white-rumped munia and several other birds from the Lonchura family. The Bengalese finch-known as the society finch in North America-is a domesticated finch that is not found in the wild.

Zebra finch breeding chart