A Floreado!!!

[Pajarita]

Ever since I lost my Floreado Timbrados I've been searching and searching but have not been able to find another one (all you find out there are Classic ones -aka as 'continuous' while Floreados are also known as 'discontinuous' because of the difference in the song -another characteristic of Floreados is that they can only be green, no other colors are allowed) and miracle of miracles, I've been offered a male FOR FREE!!!! I might be going tomorrow night to pick him up. I'll let you know how it goes. I am SOOOOOO excited over this you can't even begin to imagine!!

[Wolf]

Keep us posted, please.

[Pajarita]

I will! I will even try to make a video of his song so you can all hear the incredible wonder of it! Nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, prepares you for their song because there is no other bird that sings like them! It's not only the complexity of it (it's the only breed of canary that achieves a range of 13 notes -regular ones sing in only 3- and they make sounds that other song breeds don't, like the 'timbres'), it's the sheer volume that comes out of that teeny tiny chest that astounds you!

[Pajarita]

I got him last night. He is green with a couple of yellow rectrices and his name is Nenuco, in honor of my mother -whose family nickname was Nenuca- because his identification number is 13, my mother's favorite number and I thought of her immediately when the breeder read it off his band in order to register who the bird was going to in his records. The breeder who gave him to me shows birds and Nenuco is one of the 'rejects' - which doesn't mean he is a bad singer or anything like it. Actually, I would say that chances are he will be a better singer than any other Timbrado I could have found out there as those would all be pet quality birds bred from pet quality birds bred for several generations.

This guy travels to Spain every single year for the World Championship and the 'father' of his lines is an Asturian champion which rated 98 out of a perfect 100 points so his birds are of excellent blood! There is a show coming up which I will try to attend and, if I do, I will tell you all about it. He told me he would give me a good hen and another male after the show and that the male will bring his own 'planilla' which is the sheet where they record the points for the different things they judge (the judge is coming from Spain) so I am assuming he is going to give me one that did not do so good in the show... He doesn't sell or lends his birds any longer because, same as me, he has had bad experiences doing this but he had A LOT of babies that he needed to find homes for because you need to breed a lot of birds to get the few exceptional ones that you are going to show and I am pretty sure this is the reason why he was so generous as to give me Nenuco and, possibly (I HOPE!!!) the other ones. I wasn't happy about the way he kept them but, then, I am NEVER happy about the way breeders keep their birds...

I found out that they no longer use the word Floreado for them, they now only use Discontinuous, instead, and that, last year, they revised the song rules to make them even stricter so, for example, timbres are no longer part of the judging -I don't know what the criteria is behind this as, if you ask me, the timbres were one of the most outstanding features of their song (as well as the castanets).

I had promised you, guys, that I would try to record Nenuco's song so you could hear but, because he is a 2015 bird, he won't get his full song until next breeding season. He hasn't started singing yet, of course, but he was eating this morning so, so far, so good.

[Pajarita]

WOW! I won't be playing any lotto for a while because my luck has been all used up! The breeder sent me an email saying that he kept on thinking about me after I left and that he wants to give me more birds - both males and females! Even birds he will be showing in December (obviously the ones that did not do that well but who cares!) - FOR FREE!!!! Am I lucky or am I lucky?! I'll keep you informed.

[Wolf]

Waiting.....