Discontinuous Timbrados

[Pajarita]

They are not parrots, they are passerines but I figured it would not hurt if I post here about them.

I got myself three males and four females, all from good blood lines. I love all birds but my true passion are canaries - and out of all the breeds, my very favorite is the Discontinuous Spanish Timbrado. They used to be called Floreados but now they use the term "Discontinuous" instead -which relates to their very special song. They don't even sound like canaries, actually, because several of the more characteristic sounds of a canary song need to be missing from theirs.

Here are a few links for you to look at (and listen to).

This is the FB page of the club I just joined:
https://www.facebook.com/floreosycompuestas

This is their website:
http://floreosycompuestas.com/discontinuo/

And this is their YouTube 'channel' with audio of their song
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbBcV6 ... snRduw2htg

The ones I got are all unrelated so they can be interbred with no problem and are all from champion lines (on one side or the other) but, although I've joined the club, will get leg bands from it, certifying the babies are all purebred, and will attend their shows, I will never present any bird myself because, as with everything else where there is man's vanity involved, the animal suffers. The thing with their song is that, if they sing a lot, their syrinx become irritated and the song ends up been too shrill so, in order to preserve their syrinx and, thus, win the contest, you need to keep them pretty much in the dark all year round (a terrible thing to do to a poor little bird, if you ask me!). Mine will get bright artificial light as well a natural and will sing as much as they want and, if they end up sounding shrill, who cares?! The only thing I am going to do (as soon as we have the dressing room floor refinished -which my husband has promised will happen next week) is to separate them from my other canaries because these are all young males (from 2015) which are now developing their own song up to the next breeding season when they achieve pretty much the final version of it and I don't want them to end up learning the inferior song of my other canaries.

The females are Maria, Miriam, Magdalena and Malena; and the males are Nenuco (after my mother because I got him on her birthday), Pajaro Pinto (because he is a green intensive, just like the fabulous hen I lost to cancer whose name was Pajara Pinta named after a Spanish song) and the third is yet unnamed because it's the one my husband chose (and, as usual, he chose the prettiest one instead of listening to their songs) and he gets to name him which he hasn't done yet.

By the way, if any of you want a purebred Spanish Discontinuous Timbrado and is willing to come over to pick it up, I can recommend you to the breeder and Club Director who gave me mine. He produces a lot of babies because he doesn't want to 'lose' any of the blood lines so he is always willing to give one or a pair to somebody who has been recommended to him as a good owner.