Siskins Photo Album

Time to get out of the shell.
Photo by: J.Quatro

Day old Red Siskins
Photo by: John Quatro
Feb - 1996

Nest #1 five days later
Photo by: J.Quatro

Nest of Red, Yellow and mixed Siskins
Photo by: J.Quatro

Full house (Two Red & Three Hoodeds)
Bred by: John Quatro

Three Hooded & three Red Siskins
Photo by: J.Quatro

5 days old Red Siskins
Photo by: J.Quatro

16 day old chicks
Photo by: J.Quatro

Just out of the nest
Photo by: John Quatro

3 week old Red Siskins
Photo by: John Quatro

Red Siskins 7th Feb 1998
Photo by: J.Quatro

Red Siskin 15th Feb 1998
Photo by: John Quatro

16 & 21 day old Red Siskins
Bred by: John Quatro

First blotches of  red on young male
Photo by: J.Quatro

Not doing impressions, only Sunbathing
Photo by: J.Quatro

Red & Yellow Siskin males, just starting to color
Photo by: J.Quatro

Siskin Delight
Photo by: J.Quatro

Young male in full colour
Photo by: J.Quatro

Young males
Photo by: J.Quatro

Just showing off his colours
Photo by: J.Quatro

So is he!
Photo by: J.Quatro

Young Colombian Siskin
Owned by Jorg Nitschky

European Siskin Mutations; Normal, Green, Brown & Isabel.
Photo by: Jean Michel Eytorff

Young European Siskins just starting to color
Photo by: John Quatro

European Siskin female mutation Isabel
Owned by Jean Michel Eytorff

Just polishing Jean-Michel's medals
Photo by John Quatro

Female European Siskin mutation green
Owned by Jean Michel Eytorff

Hooded Siskin eggs
Photo by: J.Quatro

5 day old hooded Siskins
Photo by: J.Quatro

10 day old chicks
Photo by: J.Quatro

Hooded Siskins hatched 1st January 1998
Photo by: J.Quatro

Hooded Siskins 15th January 1998
Photo by: J.Quatro

18 day old Hooded Siskin
Photo by: J.Quatro

16 day old Hooded Siskins
Photo by: J.Quatro

Pair of Black Siskins
(Spinus Atratus)
Photo by John Quatro

Black Siskin female
Photo by: J.Quatro

16 days old Black Siskins
Giorggio de Baseggio-Allevamento dei Carduelidi

3 weeks old Black Siskin
Giorggio de Baseggio-Allevamento dei Carduelidi

Black Siskins pair (Spinus atratus)
Photo by: J.Quatro

Black Siskin male
Photo by: John Quatro

Black Siskin female
Photo by: J.Quatro

3 Week old Black Siskin 
Photo by: J.Quatro

Black Siskin (male) 
Photo by: Vittorio Pinelli

Can anybody identify this sub-species of Magellanicus?
It is a very small female, possibly Longirostris from N.E. Venezuela and Northern Brazil
Photo by John Quatro

It's lunch time for these youngsters
Photo by: J.Quatro

An infamous hybrid Magellanicus x Cucullatus
(photo by Dr. C. Ortega)

Andian Siskin (Spinus s. nigricauda)
(bred by Dr. C. Ortega)

This is a sub-specie Spinus magellanicus longirostris
(bred by Dr. C. Ortega)