NOTE: I will not list fully commercial sites unless they offer me a reciprocal link or pay me to endorse their products.

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Bird Societies and Organizations:

• The National Finch and Softbill Society - The USA's nonprofit finch hobby society that publishes an excellent bulletin and gives information on shows, etc. Join today! You can even buy number closed leg bands from them.
• The Zebra Finch Society - A new US organization for zebra and society finches. Has a nice color bulletin if you join.
• Queensland Finch Society, Inc. - the Australian counterpart to the NFSS
• National Council for Aviculture (British) - many links to societies for several species
• National Bengalese Fanciers Association - A British organization dedicated to society finches.
• The Finch Society of Australia, INC.
• Belgian National Exotics Club - restricted to gouldians and parrot finches right now. Has an English version link!
• The Association of Avian Veterinarians - a useful site when things go wrong.

Society (Bengalese) finch sites:

• Jim Warburton in England- the best Bengalese and munia pages - great site for society finch and related species
• Osamu Tamura's page in Japan - Our import source. All the pearls and frills in the USA are derived from birds in his room.
• Great Japanese Site - Not in English but worth the time hitting links to catch amazing images.

Zebra Finch sites:

• Dutch Zebra Finch Page
• Zebra Finch Society of the United Kingdom
• Frank Sundgaard's Zebra Finch Page. Amazing stuff - links to international zebra finch societies and a Genetic Advisor that calculates ratios of offspring if you feed in data (it neglects the possibility of genetic linkage that must exist)
• Zbirds - An all zebra finch site, sales, lots of pictures of mutations
• EFinch - Roy Beckham's extensive page on zebra finch mutations. Other species treated in less depth.
• Hans-Jurgen Martin's Zebra finch page out of Germany
• Fleming and Fleming - THE Scottish web page for quality zebra finches

Other sites of interest:

• Acadiana Aviaries - zebrafinches, doves, quails, bengalese, javas and more
• Marc Riva's Parrot Finch Page - enter the rain forest and learn about these fascinating finches.
• Steve Heller's Parrot Finch Page - more pretty parrot finches!
• Softbills - like softbills? Try Softbills.com
• Erwin Vrij's Dutch Finch Page - Birds and Biology - lots of waxbill and other information with many photographs
• Bird Genetics Lesson - not a finch lesson but one of the best technical explanations of bird color inheritance that I've found on the internet.
• Clifton Finch Aviaries - Marcus' site in Australia
• Finch Info - lots of information on husbandry for many species. Classified Ad section too.

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