RAS BIRD OF THE YEAR RAS has introduced a new feature i.e." Bird of the year" The objective is to encourage members to focus their attention on breeding the chosen Bird of the year so that by the end of a period, the collective results may be collated in such a way as to come up with a winning "recipe" for breeding these birds successfully on an ongoing basis. Our goal is to reach an average of 10 babies per pair. If this can be achieved by at least 4 or more members, then the particular" Recipe" to achieve this result, should be duplicatable by other bird breeders using the same recipe. The chosen Finch for this year is the STAR FINCH. This is a middle of the road choice since it is not too difficult to breed, neither is it too easy to breed and they are readily avaialble and not too expensive to purchase. There is quite a variety that can be bred i.e. Normal Red Faced, Normal Yellow Faced and Cinamon plus many pied mutations . Below are some pics of above:

Star finch Normal Yellow

                                                             Star Finch Normal Red Faced