Description: Size 10 cm. The male has darker blue color than female.
It is a peaceful finch, you can have several pairs in the aviary.
They ussualy are hidden in the vegetation.
Diet: Oats, canary grass seed, foxtail millet, millet, nyjer and other small seeds. Apple, lettuce, cucumber, dried figs, grit, crumbled boiled egg (whole egg with shell) and cuttlebone.
Their preferred seeds are oats and canary grass seed.
They like very much, dried figs and cucumber.
Breeding: They breed in spring, summer and autumn. They use a closed box nest, 1,5 m. height, they fill it with bag threads.
When males are in rut run after females, so it is necessary to have a lot of plants in order that females can run away and hide.
