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" I was, in the slid month of you open them dell ’year 2000, writing mine 12° book on the Birds, when I received the Brazilian periodical " Atualidades direct Ornitologicas " dall ’friend Dr. Pedro Salviano Filho. I opened the newspaper (obviously in portuguese language) and found an article on the Goldfinch   to company of a sure Massimo Natale. The most Italian name and I thought that l ’author, probably, was a descendant of the many Italians who, in past, emigrated in Brasi them.
But after to have hardly read 1/3 dell ’article, more and more fascinating, I became account that its techniques of management dell ’breeding were much valid; to the term of the reading I stated that the Sig. Natale them had to the shoulders several years of directed experience and showed " that particular sensibility " without which it is not possible to have happened in the reproduction in purity neither with the Goldfinch neither with other Species delicate. Moreover, to check the vintage years of review Italia Ornitologica, i find the article to its company in which it described, officially and for before the time in Europe, the sbalorditiva " Yellow " mutation of the Goldfinch.
But it was destiny that I would have known soon this formidable " superspecialized " breeder in Goldfinch. Only two days after, one mrs. telephones to me demanding my books " Cardellini and Lucherini " and " Allevamento dei Carduelidi " and saying me to have find my telephone number from Dr. Massimo Natale that it had contacted after to have characterized the " Web page of the Goldfinch " on Internet. Received address and telephone number, I telephoned ready, discovering that the breeder in issue was a medical " affection " one greatest passion: the breeding and the selection of the Goldfinch. The telephone call was much long one: approximately 90 minuteren, from the province of Bologna to the province of Messina! After the preliminary matters, we exchanged the most driven in one I interlace of scientific and technical arguments on feeding, genetics, mutations, factors acclimatizes them, photographies, studies in Nature, " Birdwacthing "; finally expert (because therefore I had way to ascertain) signaled me its great disappointment that had from part of official ornitocoltura (that it doubted to be a matter it self of a true mutation), when the corpse of a Yellow Goldfinch (dead man accidentally) had to send prof. to the Riccardo Stradi in order to look at itself to recognize the reality of the discovery of the Yellow mutation. The Prof. Riccardo Stradi confirmed that it was not be a matter of piume painted, in how much the carotenoidi was of genetic origin. However, the received disappointment dall ’Italian official ornitocoltura was such, that it thought to address all ’foreign. From the apparition on the Brazilian periodical.
Between we an immediate spark: both wonderful sweethearts of the (dead man accidentally) , with to the shoulders many years of direct experiences of breeding in numerous purity and studies in nature (" on the field ", in the language of the ornitologi of profession), we found ourselves joins and d agreement ’to you on all (management, feeding, several techniques, studies carries out to you, etc), comprised one deep respect and one overed-measure admiration towards the Species Carduelis carduelis, flying them only for its peculiar characteristics. Since the Dr. Natale had already ready one written describing its experiences of breeding, made saying: we decided to write this book " to two hands ". I integrated the fascinating arguments, useful and much (which   a deep competence), already made dall ’Friend Co-Autore, with others my scientific arguments and technical and "Voilà" this most original monography on the life of the eurasiatico Goldfinch, all its Subspecies, all the mutations of color today more or less known and also the rarer mutations, the hybrids, the alimony more adapted, the canonical " and traditional techniques of feeding ", the technical what's news are of feeding and are of prevention of the diseases with natural means, studies on the probable evolutionary origins of the Goldfinch and of the Carduelidi in a generalized manner, the famous paintings dedicate to you in the centuries to the Goldfinch other you will find in this book. ’
Hour, friend Reader, to You l last judgment and currency if this detailed ’most illustrated monography is, or less, a very successful job.
What you will find in every line, it is born from the love towards the Goldfinch and represents our common effort to introduce this splendid Finch, auguring us that our hards work can turn out useful nell breeding in purity to which, ’we augur ourselves, you will dedicate yourself with enthusiasm and succeeding."

                                                                                                                                                                                               George de Baseggio