Male nesting

ZiggysMum · Joined: Mar 03, 2011 Posts: 41

Hi

I'm not any kind of expert but looking at the pic and comparing to my male and female i would say you have a male.....i also have a nesting box and my male spends almost as much time as the female inside it, he's very attentive.. signlol

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Nicola

elisa · Joined: Mar 03, 2011 Posts: 54

Its the shape of his beak and the stripe under his wing that confuses me. he is hard to handle so i cant get a decent pic of the stripe under his wing. Does your male pluck his feathers in the nesting box?

elisa · Joined: Mar 03, 2011 Posts: 54

The male seems very happy , he goes in and out of the nesting box and is being his usual chirpy self, he is eating fine and his feathers seem in good condition , neat no bald patches. So i am unsire why he is mixing the feathers in with the nesting material, i thought it was females who did this when coming up to nesting , hence the iniatial confusion over the sex of the bird?