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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2014 Oct 23;2014(12):1243–1248. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot084780

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Care and breeding of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. (A) A six-plex cage that is designed to house six pairs of breeding birds; central cage dividers are removable to allow housing of five to six individuals. (B) Single housing unit from A showing a paper-lined floor, water bottles, food dispensers, cuttle bone and a nest box. (C) Juvenile female. (D) Juvenile zebra finch exhibiting chestnut markings on the flank (thick arrow) and black stripes on the throat (thin arrows) that are diagnostic of young males. Note the absence of the orange cheek patch typical of adult males. (E) Clutch of six eggs in a nest composed of coconut fiber. (F) Three zebra finch hatchlings on hatch day one and a single unhatched egg.