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- Amadeus
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- Amadina
I was offered a pair of ribbonfinches in exchange for a couple of my young gouldians and it was an offer I couldn’t refuse 
This is an african waxbill – it has a reputation in aviculture to be abit of a bully. Especially during breeding, so I will have to keep a close eye on them to make sure they dont harass the smaller birds.
They are similar in size to my gouldians.
The sexes are easily distinguished in that the hen lacks the red ribbon mark on the throat.
I named them Amadeus and Amadina
It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,300,000 km². It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal (introduced), Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
ref Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-throat_Finch
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