quick - going to look at female need advice

[2kidsblogger]

going to go look at a female for sale - this is one of the pics - they say she is young because her beak is not black yet,....but she doesn't look like young pics I have seen. what do you think? a mutation? bad diet?

 

[parrotqueen]

Welcome to the forums!

Her beak is not going to turn black, and she is not a bird of a certain mutation. She's a wild-type red lory. Because of the species, the color of her beak won't determine her age. I can tell you, from the color of her iris; she is young. Juvniles have brown irises. (That is, unless; she is the 'bernsteini' subspecies. they will keep the brown their entire life).

 

[2kidsblogger]

so not an Electus at all?? wow thanks

 

[greycloud]

Nope, definitely not eclectus.

 

[parrotqueen]

Oh, you were told that this bird was an eclectus? No wonder you were talking about her beak turning black . No, not an eclectus.

Here's an eclectus female: http://www.parrots.org/images/parrotgallery/Eclectus/wpt0162.jpg

And a Red Lory for comparison: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Red_Lory_%28Eos_bornea%29_Jurong_Bird_Park2-3c.jpg

 

[2kidsblogger]

yes being sold on Craigslist as a young female Eclectus - but from all the pics I looked at I knew something wasn't right in beak, feathering coloring, and size LOL

thanks for your quick replies!

Guy got mad when I called him on it - said he was told it was an Eclectus and said he had plenty of other interested people and then - "well Lory's are expensive too!" LOL

 

[Mel]

Guy got mad when I called him on it - said he was told it was an Eclectus and said he had plenty of other interested people and then - "well Lory's are expensive too!" LOL

What an idiot (the guy not you) .. lucky you checked. I feel sorry for the poor person who buys it thinking they're getting an ecky. Ecky's have very short, straight tails, I think in all subspecies the females tail feathers are a flame orange colour - pls don't quote me on that though