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BIRD PRICE GUIDE 2020 Edition The United Bird Societies of South Australia Inc. Executive Officer Patron Mr. Brian Reichelt His Excellency the 74 Dartmouth Street Honourable Hieu Van Le AC PORT AUGUSTA SA 5700 Governor of South Australia . Tel: 0418 896 995 Email: [email protected] Web: www.unitedbirds.asn.au BIRD PRICE GUIDE 2020 Edition The Bird Price Guide has been prepared by The United Bird Societies of South Australia Inc. It is a guide for the information of bird keepers in our affiliated clubs to provide an indicative median value that may be attached to birds within South Australia. The price listed in this Price Guide is for young sexed pairs. It was prepared from information submitted by some of our Affiliated Clubs and individual members of Clubs. In some cases, the prices were taken from a very small sample base and therefore may be distorted. It is recognised that people selling birds, are entitled to, and will, set their own values for their birds – taking into account the many factors that influence bird prices. Those factors include supply, demand, condition of the birds, breeding pairs, DNA tested birds, Show Bench quality, mutation values, age, etc. As bird prices are subject to so many factors, The United Bird Societies of South Australia Inc. can accept no responsibility for variations from the prices indicated in this Guide We welcome constructive comments and suggestions that will add to the status of the document and which will assist in the development of a quality guideline document. In particular, we strongly encourage all bird keepers to participation the next survey and enable this to be a more comprehensive document providing a wider range – and be a more authoritative indication - of bird prices for the benefit of South Australian bird keepers. AUSTRALIAN PARROTS AUSTRALIAN PARROTS CANARIES Bluebonnet Naretha 1250 Fig Parrot – Double -eyed 2100 Border Fancy 20 Red-vented 150 Golden shouldered 200 Red Factor 50 Yellow-vented 150 Hooded - normal 150 Common 20 Blue winged pied 300 Normal 100 King Parrot 230 Normal / Blue 300 Lorikeet Blue 1225 Little 575 Bourke’s Parrakeet Musk 120 Normal 40 Purple crowned 210 Cream 75 Dilute 500 Pink 75 Rainbow 105 Rosa 50 Olive 160 Pied 200 Dilute 200 Budgerigar – native 30 Lutino 600 Budgerigar – domestic 25 Red collared 180 Cloncurry 225 Lutino 600 Cockatiel Scaley breasted 170 Normal 40 Lutino 400 Various mutations 50 Olive 120 Hand raised: Varied 340 Normal/ coloured 75 Mallee Ringneck 180 Pied 90 Mulga 115 Lutino 110 Port Lincoln 225 Crimson -winged 225 Princess Elegant – Normal 80 Normal 80 Blue 105 Cinnamon 90 Fallow 400 Lutino 200 Yellow 300 Pied 165 Fallow 400 Cinnamon Pied 150 Yellow 300 Normal / Lutino 100 Cinnamon (faded) 300 Fig Parrot – Double-eyed 2100 Red-capped 245 Golden shouldered 200 WATERFOWL PHEASANTS AND PEAFOWL AUSTRALIAN PARROT AUSTRALIAN PARROT Shelduck Red-rumped Western – Burdekin 375 Blackneck 60 Normal 35 Normal 140 Mountain 150 Brush Turkey 200 Blue 50 Blue 900 Paradise 1150 Fireback, Siamese 2000 Cinnamon 40 Red-backed 250 Ruddy 1250 Golden Lime 100 Yellow 185 Shoveller, A’sian 450 Normal 100 Lutino 95 Scarlet-chested Swan – Black throated 150 Lutino Lime/Opaline 150 Normal 65 Guinea Fowl Black 350 Opaline 70 Olive 70 Mute 4000 Normal 50 Pied 140 Par blue 80 Cinnamon 50 Regent 195 Red-bellied 125 QUAIL AND PARTRIDGE Silver 50 Rock Parrot 300 Sea Green 65 Jungle Fowl, Red 40 Rosellas White fronted 100 Quail Kalij, Nepal 150 Adelaide 275 Pastels 200 Bob White 40 Lady Amherst 125 Blue-cheeked 270 Violet 200 Mongolian Brown Quail Crimson 220 Violet D. F. 300 Brown – normal 40 Pure 60 Crimson - Northern variety Superb (Barraband) 175 Brown – pied 400 Blue 60 440 Swift 670 Brown – white 400 Green 60 Eastern Twenty-eight Button Peafowl, Indian Normal 80 Normal 210 Blue normal 200 Black breasted 225 Golden-mantled 135 Blue 1000 Button – little 150 Blue pied 300 Black 400 Turquoise White 600 Button –painted 140 Cinnamon 120 Normal 70 Button - red-chested 300 Peafowl, Javanese Lutino 300 Fallow 160 Californian 90 Green 3000 Opaline (red) 150 Jade 75 Japanese 10 Reeves 175 Red 170 Olive 140 King 20 Ringneck Tasmanian 200 Opaline 105 Pure 60 Stubble 70 Green (Tasmanian) 750 Orange fronted 60 Swamp 90 Cinnamon 60 Northern 770 Yellow 60 White 150 Partridge – Chukar 55 Northern – subspecies hilli Red - fronted yellow 70 Silver 100 1100 Yellow Opaline 80 Swinhoe’s 200 Pale-headed 190 Yellow full orange fronted 95 Swinhoe’s 200 COCKATOOS EXOTIC PARROTS DOVES AND PIGEONS DOVES AND PIGEONS Black ASIATIC SPECIES Glossy 13000 Barbary 15 Torres Strait 500 Red-tailed Plum-headed Bar shouldered 75 Turtle Dove Samueli 2360 Normal 200 Bleeding heart 350 Ruddy 200 Naso 4000 Grey - Green 1000 Bronzewing Spotted 10 Cinnamon 1000 Brush 140 Macrothynchus 3500 White breasted Ground 170 Magnificus 3500 Golden Olive 3000 Common 40 White headed 140 Crested 30 White-tailed Ringnecks Wonga 220 Carnabys 3000 Normal 60 Cuckoo Dove - Brown 800 Baudins 8000 Blue 100 Diamond - Normal 20 WATERFOWL Yellow-tailed Blue - white 80 Pied 50 Duck - Small race 3000 Cinnamon 100 Silver 20 Blue billed 400 Violet 200 Flock 400 Large race 3500 Black 50 Corella Grey 80 Fruit pigeon Hardhead 150 Short-billed 175 Grey - green 70 Rose crowned 500 Mallard 20 Long-billed Eastern 180 Lacewing 100 Purple crowned 500 Mandarin 300 Long billed Western 600 Lutino 140 Superb 600 Pink eared 500 Galah Pastel blue 100 Wompoo 2500 Teal - chestnut 80 Green winged 90 Normal 120 Slaty-headed 320 Teal - Grey 80 Cinnamon 3000 Masked 45 Whistling plumed 150 EXOTIC PARROTS Lutino 2175 Partridge 800 Whistling water 350 AFRICAN SPECIES Gang Gang 3015 Peaceful Wood 40 Normal 30 Major Mitchell’s 500 African Grey 7800 Goose Fawn 35 Sulphur-crested 325 Timneh Grey 6000 Canada 600 Rock Meyers Parrot 2500 Cape Barren 150 EXOTIC PARROTS Chestnut quilled 1000 Red-bellied 2500 Egyptian 300 ASIATIC SPECIES White quilled 1000 Senegal 2150 Magpie 400 Senegal 50 Lovebirds Pygmy - green 2000 Alexandrine 320 Spinifex Fischers normal 70 Pygmy - white (cotton) 2000 Derbyan 1400 Red bellied 475 Masked normal 65 Native Hen 40 Malabar 400 White bellied 540 Nyassa normal 100 Sacred Ibis 200 Moustached 215 Squatter 200 Peach faced normal 30 Scaup (NZ) 200 Blue 1400 Talpacoti 35 Black cheeked 600 Split Blue 600 Topknot 2000 Grey - Green 1000 Cinnamon 1000 FOREIGN FINCHES SOFT BILLS EXOTIC PARROTS EXOTIC PARROTS NZ/ASIAN PACIFIC SPECIES SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES Saint Helena 55 Fairy Wren Amazon Silverbill – African 60 Superb 140 Double yellow headed 4375 Singer Splendid 300 Eclectus Yellow naped 1300 Green 135 Variegated 300 Solomononsis 900 Yellow crowned 1875 Siskin White winged 300 Polychloros 1050 Blue fronted 1625 Red hooded 290 Honeyeater – New Guinea 1000 White fronted 2400 Yellow hooded 145 Scarlet 350 Vosmaeri 3000 Caique Waxbill White-cheeked 250 Grande 2250 Black headed 2000 Black rumped 1600 Kookaburra Kakariki White bellied 2500 Orange breasted 45 Laughing 400 Red fronted 80 Conure Purple Grenadier 1500 Blue winged 500 Yellow fronted 195 Blackcapped 365 Orange cheeked 1220 Lapwing Pied 115 Blue Throated 750 Violet eared 1200 Banded 185 Yellow 140 Crimson bellied 375 Weaver Masked 105 Blue 1400 Fiery shouldered 1375 Comoro 80 Spur winged 150 Red fronted cinnamon 80 Rosiefrons 6000 Grenadier - pure 315 Magpie 50 Green cheeked - normal 100 Madagascar - pure 135 Scrub wren EXOTIC PARROTS Yellow Sided 120 Forest - pure 1000 White-browed 250 LORY SPECIES Cinnamon 120 Napoleon 425 Silvereye 60 Lory Pineapple 120 Orange Bishop 1200 Skylark 80 Black 3800 Maroon bellied 250 Whydah Stone Curlew Black capped 2150 Jandaya 475 Pin tailed 1100 Bush - Southern 300 Blue-streaked 10000 Nanday 330 Red shouldered 2000 Turkey - Brush 200 Chattering 2500 Nanday Cinnamon (Faded) 600 Yellowhammer 800 Wattlebird, Red 175 Green naped 650 Woodswallow Painted 6000 SOFT BILLS Dusky 1450 Dusky 350 Peach -fronted 685 Yellow bibbed 3500 Pearly 330 Blackbird, European 20 White - browed 350 Ornate 2000 Rose - crowned 600 Chat Goldie's 6000 Sun 470 Crimson 350 Red Buru 3000 White- eared 6000 White fronted 400 Red Moluccan 2500 Blue crowned 4000 Dotterel - Inland 400 Red and Blue 12000 Gold capped 1600 Queen Bavaria 13000 EXOTIC PARROTS AUSTRALIAN FINCHES AUSTRALIAN FINCHES FOREIGN FINCHES Macaw Double barred Star finch Jacarini 70 Blue and Gold 5800 Black rumped 70 Red faced 50 Java 45 Green-winged 14000 White rumped 50 Yellow faced 50 Mannikins Scarlet 13670 Firetails Cinnamon 50 Bengalese 20 Hahn’s 1400 Beautiful 1500 Fawn 40 Bengalese – Self 400 Yellow collared 4300 Diamond 80 Yellow bodied 190 Rufous backed ? Extinct in Red-eared 1500 Yellow rumped 130 Australia. 320 Illigers 5000 Severes 5500 Gouldian Zebra Melba –see “Pytilia” Quaker Black headed 50 Normal 15 Munia Normal 220 Red headed 50 Javan 140 FOREIGN FINCHES Yellow headed 50 Blue 295 Nun– Lutino 3000 White breasted 40 Aberdeen 670 Black headed 80 Albino 3000 Long-tailed Aurora – see “Pytilia” Silver headed 75 Red billed (Heck’s) 70 Avadavat – Tri-coloured 80 AUSTRALIAN FINCHES Yellow billed 65 Red 170 Pekin Robin 2500 Pearl wing 160 Bengalese – see “Mannikins Parrot Finch Black –throated Fawn Pearl wing 220 Chaffinch 570 Blue faced 70 (Diggles) Masked Cordon Bleu Lutino Blue faced 260 Black rumped 90 Normal 140 Blue capped 280 Red faced Pied 195 Black rumped dark form 100 White eared 185 Red cheeked 70 Red faced 70 (Parson) Painted Red cheeked pied 150 Sea Green 80 White-rumped 80 Normal 40 Cuban 60 Sea Green Pied 175 White rumped dark form 130 Yellow 40 Cut-throat 45 Tri-coloured 110 Fawn 120 Fawn 120 Fire - Red billed 45 Pytilia Cream 130 Cinnamon 200 Fire - Pink 60 Green winged (Melba) 130 Chestnut breasted 50 Pictorella 165 Fire - Pied 60 Red faced (Aurora) 235 Crimson Plum headed Golden Song Sparrow 215 Red winged (Aurora) 120 Black bellied 160 Normal 60 Goldfinch 30 Yellow winged 260 White bellied 750 Fawn 120 Greenfinch Red crested 965 Red browed European 40 Redheaded – see “Aberdeen Normal 55 Himalayan 525 Redpoll 1500 Lesser 300 Oriental 300 Saffron – Pelzelins 900 Lesser 300 .
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