Serin
Crowing
This is one of my pairs from 2016. They were both twelve months old when the photo was taken, fully molted into adult plumage and at complete physical growth. The babies were about ten days old, and they went on to have additional clutches, two or three a year. They lived in an aviary setting and were allowed to behave as naturally as possible. While an argument can be made they are not mentally mature at this age, my experience has been they know when they are ready. Good mothers (and fathers) are primarily if not completely instinctive - they don't learn it from their own parents. If a young parent does a bad job, it will likely continue to be a bad parent even at an older age.
