Member Budgies - Variety of Mutatations

Budgies come in a rainbow of colours. Wild budgies are all green and yellow. They were discovered in the 19th century by English explorers who took some of them back, when they returned to England. It was there that they discovered that different colours of budgies appeared when they were being bred. You don't see these colours in the wild due to "survival of the fittest". Any different colour budgies simply would survive due to being outcast and easily picked off by predators.

Now we have a large variety of pet and exhibition budgies, in many different colours and mutations.

Click here to see all the different mutations of our BBC members' budgies. You may also add your budgie picture to the list.  Members Budgies - Variety Of Mutations Options

If you are new to the world of budgie genetics you may be confused with all the short cuts that are used in the posts and their meaning. Here is your guide to many of those terms used:

DF (df, d-f) Double Factor
SF (sf, s-f) Single Factor
YF (yf, y-f) Yellowface
DEC Dark Eyed Clear
Ino Lutino or Albino
Rec. Recessive
GF Golden Face
OP Opaline
GW Greywing

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