overjoyed to live in a world with strawberry finches

[soothsayer]

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[Bayard]

1. Gorgeous!

[liberalmuse]

2. Gorgeous!

I didn’t even know there was such a thing. I used to make fun of birders but I’ve become one myself. Birds bring me joy. Thanks for sharing.

[Ruby Zee]

3. Beautiful birds

Thank you, I've never seen these before.

[mopinko]

4. one of these days

imma have a big aviary w a dozen kinds if finches, at least.
i did have zebras for a while. funny little things.

i once made a nice little aviary for my budgies out of a dresser i picked up in the alley.
i can see turning some big armoire into a little colony of tweety things.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. They're a southern Asian bird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_avadavat

The wiki article says there are 'introduced' populations elsewhere. I doubt they'd thrive in my climate, however.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. I have never seen birds like this.

They are indeed gorgeous and do justice to their name!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. What beautiful little birds. I've never heard of them before.

[Snarkoleptic]

8. Super cute bird!

Thanks for posting.

[planetc]

9. a world with "gratuitous beauty" of which these birds are a fine example

[question everything]

10. Beautiful! Where are they domains? Here we have house and golden finches

[rickyhall]

11. Those are pretty. Never seen one before.

[niyad]

12. Just lovely. Thank you for sharing and making the world a bit brighter.

[appleannie1]

13. The only finches that come to my feeders are house finches and goldfinches.

Those are beautiful. I could sit and watch my feeders all day long.

[BlueSky3]

14. Same here,

although we do briefly see a few purple finches as they pass through.

[appleannie1]

16. Here too.

[calimary]

15. WOW! I've never seen that kind of finch before!

Amazing! And white “freckles”!

Isn’t Nature WONDERFUL! Literally full-of-wonder!

[housecat]

17. Great photos! Where were they taken?

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. I don't remember ever seeing a bird that looked like that.

To the best of my recollection, the only birds I've seen that were that speckled were nowhere near as colourful. For some reason, I think of the finches Darwin observed in the Galapagos. These ones appear to be Mardi Gras-ready.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. lovely little guy, or gal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_avadavat

[Karadeniz]

20. Never knew...thanks for posting!

[Silver Gaia]

21. They are absolutely beautiful.

[Martin Eden]

22. We need to save this world and the beautiful creatures in it

From rapacious uncaring greed.

[PatrickforB]

23. I'll say! Beautiful bird. n/t