Our ACCIDENTAL Goldfinch Mule!?

[@BirdLifeChannel]

What a wonderful surprise! The accidental pairing of a goldfinch and a canary has produced such a beautiful hybrid. Nature's unexpected combinations are truly amazing!💕

[@ps3845]

Wow Ollie thats amazing i love your videos always learn something new

[@ericmichie1897]

Lovely little bird Oli

[@onlywings1992]

This made my day mate .just about to finish work and enjoy this membership perk

[@OCAVIARY]

Thanks for joining the membership!😁

[@oldgold5848]

I would have thought you knew how it happens by now Oli 😂. When a daddy and a mummy bird love each other very much......😂😂

[@sarahb2623]

​@@oldgold5848😂

[@RemcoPetersen]

Lovely bird, very interesting to see the goldfinch managed to fertilize the eggs after 10 days still. Also we talked about this in the past. Always great to see the weekly video come online but its sad to see the video length not being as long as they used to be. I fully understand the work you put in it but maybe when you are not as busy with school etc. you could look into giving the old school weekly breeding season update video and besides that on another day video's that are more in depth like this one. As said I appreciate the effort for the weekly content alot!

[@craigmorris1928]

Fantastic mate well done 👍 can you keep us updated on how this bird turns out after moult and so on 👍

[@Dannysbirdshed]

Lovely little bird

[@carlosalexandre-zz2fx]

You have a beautiful, colourful ,male mule there..cheers

[@michaelwaters3746]

Female

[@carlosalexandre-zz2fx]

It is a male.

[@deirdreLaurence]

Do mules usually start off as self birds and then moult into their adult plumage?

[@JohnLacey-x2f]

Ah Oli cracking news great looking bird looks like he wanted to leave u something before he moved show could be great show bird maybe

[@mehmedeminaydn7725]

Are Chaffinch and Canary hybrids fertile? Does anyone know or have tried?

[@OCAVIARY]

Chaffinch x canary or vise-versa is an extremely rare hybrid, only a handful have ever been bred. Therefore they have never been tested for fertility

[@juanalfonso9143]

I admire the way you breathe and crossbreed finches, but no one has ever crossbred a green singer finch with European goldfinch, knowing that you have space the time and the knowledge I wish this following year in the breeding season I would like to see you try to accomplish a pair of green singer with a European Goldfinch

[@deirdreLaurence]

Green singers would be very hard to come by in the UK. I don't think that you'll ever see that cross happen here, but I do believe it would be very amazing if possible

[@michaelwaters3746]

@@deirdreLaurence green singers are common I’ve got a male grey singer which is even harder to come by

[@herlykakim9215]

Saya mau ❤