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Gynandromorphic birds (1 Viewer)

I downloaded this shocking bird from Israel a few years ago, maybe from a bf thread, not sure.
 

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I just saw halfsider in different exhibitions or websites:
http://users.skynet.be/fa398872/engoulm10.htm
I wonder whether the birds in this website (Gouldian Finchs) are wild or captive birds, because is said that the phenomenon is somewhat more common in domestic species than in wild ones.

Just for the record, what sex did you record for it? Not sure that IPMR will accept a bit of both!!!
This from the website posted by stonechat1 “Half-Siders can be fertile, but Gynandromorphs are always infertile as they are not completely developed internally as male or female. This means they cannot breed and they are no more than a freak of nature”. So these gynandromorphs are neither males nor females, so no way to enter them into IPMR.
 
I wonder whether the birds in this website (Gouldian Finchs) are wild or captive birds, because is said that the phenomenon is somewhat more common in domestic species than in wild ones.

You'd have to imagine it's something to do with the intense amount of inbreeding they are doing to try and get the colour morphs/variants they want.
 
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