COVER STORY: FINCHES
THE violet-eared waxbill has been around in aviculture for a long time now. It's certainly a species I remember from when I started back in the early 1980s. They always drew attention because of their beauty and elegance – but their price has always been quite high, and the same goes for the closely related purple grenadier . Both species have consistently drawn the interest of softbill keepers, owing to their being very insectivorous in the breeding
