A small Australian waxbill with black and white stripes on the face, popular as a cage bird.
Poephila guttata, family Estrildidae
‘The male zebra finch's brightly colored beak helps attract mates.’
‘House sparrow and zebra finch are members of Passeri.’
‘If you're a male zebra finch, you might dream of wooing a female finch.’
‘As soon as I saw it I thought it was a zebra finch.’
‘In the wild, the zebra finch is a communal bird, living in flocks of up to 100 members.’
‘Normally, the young zebra finch nursery resounds with ever-new, imperfect variations of the adult songs.’
‘I'm just disappointed to see female mallards and zebra finches falling for something this obvious.’
‘Young indigo buntings and zebra finches require social interactions to acquire songs.’
‘Burley discovered that female zebra finches preferred males with black leg bands to males with ‘unattractive’ blue leg bands.’
‘Female zebra finches, Taenopygia guttata, actively solicited and performed extra-pair copulations with more attractive males having higher song rates.’
‘Others, like zebra finches, find it impossible to imitate a new song after their puberty-like phase in life.’
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