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What Exactly Is She ?

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Sorry Gunny, but your picture web link doesn't work, so cannot see your bird to make any assesment. You may like to try and post your picture again.

The link works for me, but unfortunately I don't know what mutation -i'm not very good with mutations... But pretty bird by the way :)

Hi gunny, well second time the link worked for me. Your bird looks a bit like a yellow lacewing, if it has pink eyes like an albino then it would be a lacewing, if its eyes are black then my guess is some sort of greywing olive green or somesort color. Sorry not real helpful, but a difficult one to pin down.

Looks like a Green Opaline greywing or dilute

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Thanks for yours answers! She has no red eyes. And the colour of the "waves" on her wings is green, so it cannot be lacewing.

 

I bought her because i hoped it could be a dilute. Ive collected nearly all dilutes i could get in the last two years. And there were not much....

 

One example was him

 

http://www.picture-uploa...3/Vio1.jpg.html

 

I couldnt say if he is grey or violet. Absolutely beautiful color. And surely a dilute. Sadly he died last year without ever getting children :-(.

 

But sometimes it seems to be very hard to discriminate between greywings and dilutes. But she is no "normal" dilute, because i have a few yellows and greens and their wings look different....

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I think she looks a little dark to be a dilute. But that's the problem with breeding greywings and dilutes. There are so many modifier genes that blur the lines between which is which, and they tend to produce offspring with the same modifiers, so it's hard to sort them out.

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