Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother nature"?

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Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother nature"?

I am curious... which one of these two GCCs is the normal (natural) coloring found in GCCs out in the wild?

Is their entire head normally solid black like the first pic?

... or are their cheeks normally green like the second pic?

Both those GCCs are so beautiful!! I am wanting to get a normal GCC in a few months. In the interim, I've been looking at GCC pictures and watching GCC videos nonstop LOL

 

[Altum]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

...I'm pretty sure those are the same variety of GCC. The face feathers are ruffled up in the first pic, but you can see the green edge of his cheek.

The first bird may also be younger; mine didn't have green over his eye or blue on the back of his neck like the second bird until after his first molt.

 

[Dinosrawr]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

Neither link provides me a specific image unfortunately. The normal or natural colour, genetically known as a "wild-type", is dependent on which species of conure you look at. A wild green cheeked conure - Pyrrhura molinae - will simply look like the "normal" colour (my conure Avery is a perfect example).

 

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Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

I've fixed my first post so that it shows which pictures I'm referring to more clearly... the GCC in the first pic has black cheeks (it looks as though that GCC's entire head is black)... and the GCC in second pic has green cheeks.

I should have used better pic than what I used in the first pic... because his feathers are ruffled up... ah well.... but hat pic is making that GCC look as though it has black cheeks...

 

[Tropical]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

...I'm pretty sure those are the same variety of GCC. The face feathers are ruffled up in the first pic, but you can see the green edge of his cheek.

The first bird may also be younger; mine didn't have green over his eye or blue on the back of his neck like the second bird until after his first molt.

I think you're right... I think maybe it's just because his feathers are ruffled up that's making it look as though his entire cheeks are black... opps. I didn't realize they change colors on the cheek... is it normal for them to have black cheeks and then it turns green after the first molt?

 

[Dinosrawr]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

It's not exactly that they have "black" cheeks, it's that you're seeing the underside of the feathers. If I look closely enough I can see the green above and below the eye on the conure being snuggled.

Their feathers do change colour over specific areas as the feathers mature and develop, though most GCC's simply start out with green cheeks (Google "month old green cheeked conure" to see).

 

[Altum]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

Yeah, the colors more spread and get richer after the first molt. Foggy always had green on the sides of his face, but its bigger now, and extends in a line over his eye, and he has brownish "sideburn" patches like your second pic, too.

There are other changes too--more of an iridescent mottling to his body instead of a solid matte green, some dark teal feathers on the boundary between the green body and black on the back of his neck, some green-blue feathers along his underside where his belly meets his back, and the red on his belly has spread up his chest some. There is a brown pupil ring that wasn't visible when we first got him, either. As far I know these are all normal changes with a first molt.

 

[Tropical]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

Whoops, my bad. I should have looked closer at the pic... I see a little green near his cheek next to his beak. I LOVE the normals... it's become my fav variation I need to hurry up and get my new GCC so I can find another hobby than looking at GCC pictures constantly lol. It's a bummer I have to wait 5 more months!

 

[MonicaMc]

Re: Which one of these GCCs is the authentic natural coloring created by "mother natu

Not all green cheeks look the same because there are different subspecies of green cheeks... and when you hybridize the subspecies......... well....... you get even more variation within them!


green cheeked