I'm new to owning zebra finches, and I was just wondering why my zebra finch keeps singing all the time...

Question

My male zebra finch sings a song about 27 imes an hour..well maybe not exactly that much, but its a lot; He also sang a lot yesterday.

I have a female zebra finch with him so he's probably just calling her for "certain reasons" but I just wanted to make sure.

Answer 1

Do you have only one bird? That's the impression I get from your question. If that's the case he's lonely and trying to attract some company (female preferably). If you *do* have just one bird it'd be best (for the bird) to obtain a cage mate (female only if you're interested in babies).

Answer 2

Maybe it's missing its partner so its singing. I have 4 parakeets and they usually make a lot of noises. Or maybe it just likes to sing a lot. This is a few lines from site #3:
It is not only humans for whom music is the food of love. For zebra finches, it seems sound is so important it can control when they breed.
Here's a couple paragraphs from site #3.

Joseph Waas, a biologist at the University of Waikato in New Zealand played sounds to a colony of zebra finches to trick the females into thinking there were more birds around. He found that the birds became fertile earlier and raised larger families with greater success.

"Females that were exposed to the vocalizations of their mate and playback from a colony other than their own, laid eggs earlier and more synchronously than females in control colonies," say the researchers. "Males that heard 'sound supplements' generated from their own colony sang more than males in control colonies that did not receive playback."

The work, which appears in Proceedings of The Royal Society B, confirms a hypothesis developed in 1938 that social stimulation, from the presence and activities of neighbors, causes birds in colonies to synchronize when they give birth, and produce more young earlier in the season.

I corrected the grammar so that's why it's a little different. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Answer 3

I actually have 4 they are attractive little birds do sing yet very gently. the have numerous power they eat and drink a lot in addition they might properly be messy at the same time as eating yet 2 of my Zebra have had babys 2 or 3 i imagine there so gruesome they breed really quick I actually have 2 budgies breeding in a cage underneat them the budgies layed there eggs earlier the finches and the finches hatched in 10 days. tremendous for novices and youngsters wanting to reproduce birds

Answer 4

Hi there. The male zebra finch sings to attract a female. Many different birds do this or do a courting dance.Have a tweet year.

Answer 5

Well if you just got him then he could have had a mate in the pet shop and he's call for the other bird.

Answer 6

aren't those birds cute? he is just happy!