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Australian yellowface, aka goldenface

BUDGERIGARS

THE first time I saw the Australian goldenface was in the 1960s in a petshop in a small Devon town. They had come from the importer at Keston Bird Farm, in Kent.

They were goldenface rainbows and they looked fantastic colours – but as budgies they were poor. They were of pet quality only. I was advised to keep well away because I would never have been able to improve them. That is a

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