New Red Rumped Parakeet!! :D

[Kiwi2010]

Hey everyone,
so i went to the pet shop on monday & they didnt have a indian ringneck!! :O, they said they wont have one for another 6 months!! so i saw a lovely red rumped parakeet, only 8 weeks old, so i bought him, he is beautiful, he is semi tame & loves to whistle all day!! , he is still abit nervous of loud sounds or if we put our hands in the cage, but he does sit on your finger or hand & he will let you stroke him, at times! , he is a lovely character, hopefully, i will get another one, soon, for company!! , what do you think of him?? i have named him kiwi! what colour is he??
thanks guys

 

[Aussie Ben]

Wow he looks amazing! We occasionally see wild ones in the park across the road here in oz - they seem to be very shy so they are hard to spot. They truly are beautiful though.

I can only find lists of mutations but no matching images, so not exactly sure what colour he is. He is definitely not a wild (normal) mutation.

 

[apatrimo94]

WOW. Good looking keet you got there. It's pretty amazing that you got it. And as Ben said, his color is not familiar to me with the list of color mutations i know.

 

[Kiwi2010]

Hey guys,
thanks for your replies!! he is still shy & timid! anyone know his colour?? he is similar to lutino, but he isnt lutino
thanks

 

[Aussie Ben]

Okay, I pulled out one of my old magazines that has an article on red-rumped mutations. It looks like he could be (or at least looks most like) a Lutino Lime mutation. I found a picture here:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/lutinolime/Hervey_Bay_Birds/Lutinolimecock_edited.jpg

 

[Kiwi2010]

hey,
thanks for the reply, yeh he does look alot like this one, but his eyes arent red!!
thanks

 

[Aussie Ben]

hey,
thanks for the reply, yeh he does look alot like this one, but his eyes arent red!!
thanks

No problems.

The photo in the link was definitely taken with a flash (you can see the sharp shadow). This may have highlighted the redish/brown colour in the eye than many birds have, just the same way we get 'red eye' in photos - you just cant see it in normal light. Also, going by the feather colouring and beak colouring, I would say this bird is much older than yours, which might explain the richer deeper colours. I also noticed it has a touch of blue on its shoulders, which Kiwi doesn't have so yea. Maybe it will come in time, or maybe kiwi is a different type of lutino lime. It would be interesting to find out though, does the pet shop where you bought him know what he is?

 

[Ratzy]

What about UK cinnamon? The UK cinnamon has pallid, lime, yellow and dilute.