What Color is my Cockatiel?

[chris686]

This is Boomer:

He looks like a Lutino, but I don't know. He's all yellow/white, but he's got some grey on his back, so I am not sure. I can't find any comparable pictures anywhere.

 

[MikeyTN]

Boomer is a Cinnamon Pied Lutino!

 

[Niner10Tango]

I agree with Mikey.

I found this link helpful when trying to determine different mutations of tiels. There are many others to reference too!!!
Cockatiel birds for sale - Tiel Treasures - Hand-fed baby Cockatiels and Breeders

He sure is a beauty!

 

[DallyTsuka]

cinnamon pied


no lutino, sorry MikeyTN. lutino's completely lack melanin to their plumage, so they dont have any of the grey tones to them. a lutino pied does exist, but it has darker yellow patches rather than grey patches.

Lutino - Just Cockatiels!

taken from the above site:

Lutino Pied (LpD) first appeared in the early 1980’s and is a double mutation, meaning the bird visually shows two mutations, Lutino and Pied. Visually a Lutino Pied will have an overall softy buttery yellow color to the plumage. It is very easy to tell if a lutino is also Pied once they are fully feathered. Look at the wing flights. If there are any flight feathers that are clear (meaning a solid yellow), with no spots/dots, these are Pied feathers. Normal Lutino feathers, when young, will have yellow spots/dots against a cream colored flight. If only a few wing flights are clear then the bird is lightly Pied, and if 50% or more of the wing flights are clear it is a heavy Pied. The same applies to the tail feathers, clear feathers are Pied feathers and barred feathers are non-Pied feathers. Beak and feet are a pale flesh tone, and the cheek patch is orange. This Lutino variation is less prone to balding, because Pied contributes to the feathering to the head and crest.

Lutino Pied eyes are a paler, bright jelly bean pink color in comparison to other Lutino variations, and do not darken as they get older. Pied and/or Whiteface Pied splits will affect eye color with any of the Lutino variations. Normal Lutino eyes will darken as the bird matures, due to a slight infusion of melanin. When split to Pied this slight infusion of melanin will contribute to amber, grey-blue to blue-white eye color.

and if you go to the link and read through it and go to the bottom of the page, she has examples of mutations, many of which are the birds she has bred herself. she has a lutino pied, the second one in the photo gallery.



so, the bird the OP here is posting about is just a cinnamon pied, just a heavy pied since most of his body is pied rather than cinnamon

 

[Blancaej]

I would have no clue but just wanted to say you have a beautiful tiel!

 

[MikeyTN]

Dally,

The actual name is just a Cinnamon heavy pied, can't see the front, the op says its mostly yellow.

 

[DallyTsuka]

Dally,

The actual name is just a Cinnamon heavy pied, can't see the front, the op says its mostly yellow.

yes i know that its a cinnamon pied, thats why i was pointing out that there was no lutino in him lol regarding your post

 

[chris686]

Thank you all for the replies. He's really great, and he's starting to mimic some whistles. I'm hoping to teach him some simple tunes. I think he's trying, but it's all coming out as gibberish.

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what makes him cinnamon. He is yellow, white, and grey. Here's another picture from the front, which he appears all white yet has a yellow tint. This is what made me think Lutino, but I'm far from seasoned when it comes to these color mutations.

Sorry that it's blurry, but he, of course, wouldn't cooperate

From the other side, there's a faint grey patch visible (Lighting isn't good, but that is a grey patch on his belly, though it's very, very faint in good light), and then a lot of grey visible on the wing:

 

[DallyTsuka]

he is not lutino based on the dark grey/brown splotches on his back.

lutinos lack the grey colour (melanin) so they do not have the grey splotches like he does.


he is cinnamon based on the colour of his splotches on his back, which is because he is a pied.

pieds can be almost fully yellow (or white if they are a whiteface mutation) or mostly grey with a few clear feathers. your bird is a heavy pied, because he has a lot of yellow markings instead. but he is not a lutino in any way.

 

[MonicaMc]

I think the correct term would be a cinnamon "saddleback" pied.... which is a kind of heavy pied.


I have a light pied hen and it effects her face, one tail feather, her rump and some flight feathers. She is, however, not a cinnamon. Her feathers are darker.

I also have a cinnamon pearl pied. She could also be considered a "saddleback", although she has more grey spots than your tiel. Those yellow spots in her grey areas is what makes her a pearl.