VIOLET-EARED WAXBILL
(Uraeginthus ianthinogaster)
di Enzo Patanè
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Scientific name: Uraeginthus ianthinogaster
Italian name: Granatino violaceo
It's the most common and easy found grenadier
present in the Italian breedings. With to the Common Grenadier
he represents one of waxbill of greater beauty and elegance and
the male of this species sure unnoticed in an aviary.
DISTRIBUTION
South-center of Kenya and center north of
the Tanzania. The subspecies " ugandae " comes from
the extreme part south oriental of the Sudan and from the southern
part of Ethiopia. It's present in discontinuous way in Somalia
and the north of the Kenya and the Uganda. It's a enough timid
bird that very rarely approaches itself to human takeovers preferring
the dense spots of acacia.
DESCRIPTION
It's a bird long around to 14 cm. The livery
of the adult male is of great effect . Cheeks, chest, inferior
parts and rump are intense blue or deep violet. Tawny head and
wings rust and black tail. Spout and eyes-ring red.
The female has a more modest livery and has
one livery nearly totally tawny-rust to exclusion of the ocular
zone blue clearly and the violet rump. the sex of the young is
determinable a lot prematurely by the zone around to the eye that
in the male is violet, already to 40 days of life, while the females
assume the tenuous blue color of the adults.
MAINTENANCE AND FEEDING
As soon as imported it needs
of warmth and cures in rather delicate how much but, once acclimatized
turn out peasant rather and very adapted to the cage life. It's
a wild bird that but, if very attended to, is tamed very quickly
arriving to breeding also in broods cages shielded.
It needs a seed mixture of
type A, vegetables. The live feed it's essential for a good health.
It can be lodged in cages
of 45 cm of length, but in order to maintain integral the livery,
moreover much delicate, is necessary one cage at least 100 cm
or aviary.
COMPATIBILITY
It's a bird much aggressive
that convene to lodge isolated from other species in how much
in a position to killing the imprisonment companions. The male
catches up a lot fastly the shape loving and if not reciprocated
from the female chase and beat she until the dead.
If she died it absolutely
must avoid to insert one new female in the cage of the male. The
male, extremely territorial, could chase she and can kill in some
minutes. It's necessary to put the female to visual contact of
the male, but separated from one grill for some week and however
until that this last not monster more signs than calm nervousness
and pauses near the female. Once puttinges to direct contact it
is necessary however to observe with discretion the behavior of
the male for to still divide the pair.
BREEDING
A pair very lodged will breed
enough ready. The male will construct a nest inside of an half-open
nest or, if present shrubs in the high part of the cage will directly
construct the characteristic globular nest of the species.
The male in love emits continuously
acute and extended sound much similar to those emitting from
the representatives of the genus Erythrura. The brooded comprises
usual 4-6 eggs white who the female broods for approximately 12
days. To the hatch the parents they need a great amount of live-food
in order to raise the schicks.
In absence of live-food the
female expels the chicks outside the nest.
It's better, therefore, to entrust the eggs
to a reliable pair of sparrows of Japan preventively accustomed
to eat of an highly proteic patè. To notice that the chicks
of the genus uraeginthus ask the food without to raise the head,
but swing it of devious, therefore only little pairs of sparrows
of Japan they can nourish since the first days.
It's necessary therefore to select these pairs
of sparrows and to reserve they exclusively to the breeding of
the chicks of the genus uraeginthus.
The chicks exit from the nest around the 14
days of life and they don't flyng.
After others three weeks they are independent.
