I'm so excited. About two weeks ago, a fellow co-worker gave me their male canary. Today, I noticed my female canary has started building a nest. Canaries on the way maybe?

Alan

"It's colder than a witches tit in a brass brassiere out there." Edited to reflect the way I heard it many, many years ago, Alan!

Congrats on your canary newly weds! Remember my little rescued lovebirds? I don't know if they're both females or one is just sterile. They 'mate' and the female lays eggs, but none ever hatch.

That's a bummer, babies would be kewl!

Seet! Baby canaries! We'll be expecting lots of pics if this comes to fruition!

tomatofreak said:
I don't know if they're both females or one is just sterile. They 'mate' and the female lays eggs, but none ever hatch.

Sterile, I thought I had said before that one was a sterile hybrid but I guess not =(

Lynn, you may have made that note and I just forgot. Not the first time, I'll grant you! Just out of curiosity, what causes the sterility? Offhand, the only hybrid animal that comes to mind is the mule, a crossbreed between horse and donkey. Surely this little 'guy' lovebird is all lovebird. No? I sorta feel bad for the blue baby. Apparently, she raised a brood while in captivity after she was stolen. She was the only blue in that 'aviary' (if you could call it that); most of the rest were peachfaces with one bright yellow and lots of what I'd call dilute torties if they were cats.

It's a hybrid of 2 lovebird species, I think there are 9. There are some lovebirds called 'eyering' species and when crossed with peach faced will create sterile birds which might also be quite nervous and confused at maturity due to the differences in breeding and nesting behaviors, so I'm thinking lucky for you and the bird that it's male since that probably mainly holds true for females which are in large part responsible for the nesting.

Very interesting. Lucky for me, indeed. The green bird is - was - very outgoing and friendly. That is, during the time the blue bird was away. As soon as she returned, they resumed being a bonded pair with no time for humans. I love 'em anyway....

Yep, I think pairs are a lot of fun to watch