FOREIGN FINCHES
A WIDE range of foreign seedeaters is to be found in AUK aviculture. If you read the old birdkeeping books, the advice on feeding was often to supply a “good foreign finch mix”. In reality, different birds have different needs. A diminutive African waxbill will not have the same preferences as the larger, robust cardinals, say.
Fortunately, the modern bird-feed market has realised this and now numerous species-specific mixes areseeds such as small black sunflower, pine seeds, milk thistle, buckwheat and even dried mountain-ash berries.
