What Color Are They?

IcyWolf

New member
Jul 5, 2011
1,542
3
Etters, Pa
Parrots
~Alexandrine Parakeet~2 Red Lored Amazons~Blue Fronted Amazon~Black capped conure~4 Green Cheeks~4 Parrotlets~2 lineolated parakeets~9 American budgies~9 English budgies~ And lots of babies :)
Sorry for all the threads all of a sudden but I was filling out the two baby budgies hatch certificates and I got stuck, I can't figure out what color mutations they are. They are both a very pale, pastel blue color with clear flight feathers. The dad is a dominant blue pied and I'm not sure about the hen, she is a yellow face with clear flights, blue body but an irregular wing pattern(possibly opaline?)

here is Sadie
IMG_20120411_164001.jpg

IMG_20120411_164022.jpg

IMG_20120411_164121.jpg


And here is Nico
IMG_20120411_164249.jpg

He has normal barring all the way down his back but he has this random clear spot on the top of his head

He's on the right
nicoandsadie7weeks.jpg


His wings are patterned normally but he has clear flight feathers just like Sadie.
Here are the parents:
IMAG1869.jpg

The hen is the closest one to the camera

IMAG1629.jpg


IMAG1624.jpg

The mother again

IMAG1623.jpg

Dad on top, mom in the middle(this picture is from when I first got them, hence the third bird in the picture.)
 
Your guess is as good as mine but they are very cute little babies. I see one of the parents are pied so that could explain the clear flights. But what mutation they are actually called sorry can't help.

I am flat out identifying my budgies. My hen is yellow & the male is blue. I have only had 2 clutches, 3 in one & then 4. All 7 babies were different colors. I got deep blue, pale blue, violet, green with yellow face, blue & green blochy body with yellow face, an albino & a lutino. So goodness knows how many splits the parent birds are.
 
  • Thread Starter
  • Thread starter
  • #3
I just realized I missed a picture, I'm wondering if sadie is an opaline judging by the pattern on her wings.

IMG_20120411_164211.jpg
 
Oh man. Good luck with that one. Took me forever and multiple people to tell me what color my Spooky Burd is. I love white and blue budgies. I like to think my pretty boy would make beautiful babies :)

168965_1625441679458_1338990111_31544336_2812857_n.jpg


176423_1643719856401_1338990111_31572171_4946654_o.jpg
 
  • Thread Starter
  • Thread starter
  • #5
He's very handsome! I love the high white pieds! If no one here knows what colors they would be considered, any advice on where I could ask? i really want to put the right mutation on their hatch certificates.
 
I found a site that lists your birds as clear flight pieds, they can be different colours as well but must have the clear flight feathers.
 
  • Thread Starter
  • Thread starter
  • #8
Thanks sssaucey, I'm on that site all the time but I think I just got myself confused going through all of the varieties and arguing with myself lol.

I was originally thinking they were clearflight pieds but I always get confused with the recessive pieds. I guess Nico is a blue clearflight pied and sadie is a blue opaline clearflight pied.
 
It was actually confusing to me too while scrolling through all the mutations lol, so many of them look similar that you have to look at the pic very carefully to see the differences lol
 

Most Reactions

Back
Top