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jenene283
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Looks likea dilute spangle skyblue cock.

This is a perfect example of an absolutely adorable and beautiful budgie of the mutation "everyone wants one just like it" split to "we are jealous and want one too" :sad:

Yellow FaceII Spangle?

He's a pretty bird, that's what he is. :P

 

My guess is type 2 yellowface dilute skyblue pied. Possibly cobalt instead of skyblue, can we see a picture of the back? I'm looking for the color on the rump between the flights.

 

(you said it Bubbles, he's that type too! :sad: )

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I have always been envious of all your beautiful budgies Karen - but now the tables have turned huh?? :sad: :P

I have always been envious of all your beautiful budgies Karen - but now the tables have turned huh?? :P:P

:sad: You bet !! Please send urgently by flatpack or postal tube :P

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No way Karen. I looked long and hard for this bird and he aint goin' nowhere!!

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He is a yellow face type 2 for sure. it would help to get a picture of his back to tell more. At first glance I thought spangle then a possible dilute. But the throat spots look at full strengh which ( i think) would rule out that idea and the wing feathers just above the flight feathers don't look spangle.

 

Any one else wondering about Texas Clearbody?

I'm thinking clearbody as well... wing patterns doesn't look spangle, and it doesn't have the spangle clear tail feathers. so I would say not spangle.

Like nerwen said already, throat spots too prominant to be a dilute, and also the wing marking are too inconsistent for dilute as well... some patches are too dark.

I have always been envious of all your beautiful budgies Karen - but now the tables have turned huh?? :P:)

;) You bet !! Please send urgently by flatpack or postal tube :D

 

Careful Kaz don't want to start WWIII :hap:

That was my first thought throat spots too strong but the wing markings are very light grey.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of greywing (I seen the back shot) scroll up more and you will see the links.

 

YF2 Dominant Pied Spangle Greywing is what I was thinking?

 

 

not sure if you can be spangle and greywing at the same time since spangle is dominant

I agree with Texas Clearbody. I was thinking spangle as well.. but the color of the tail feathers is a good point so he probably isn't. I haven't seen a Texas Clearbody Spangle to be sure though.

How can this bird be a clearbody?

 

body feathers are left clear, however, leaving a white-based budgie with white body feathers and a yellow-based budgie with yellow body feathers

 

this bird's body feathers are not clear, they at least on my monitor the yellow face is bleeding in the body making the feathers very light green with yellow splotches.

 

I am not saying it isn't I just want to know why it could be :).

Here is some very interesting information on breeding them

http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/rares/clbodies/clbds.html

 

 

 

I agree not a spangle now :ausb:

Try this one Lovey.

 

http://www.budgieplace.com/colors.html#clearbody

 

In the Texas clearbody variety, the color of the budgie's body feathers is diffused or absent, and the wing markings are dark at the top and fade to a light grey toward the tips of the wings. The standard for the Texas clearbody budgie is to have no color in the body feathers, leaving only yellow or white (depending, of course, if the budgie is yellow-based or white-based). The Texas clearbody can however, have some color in the body feathers of up to a 50% dilution. In this case the body feather color is stronger toward the vent and rump feathers.

 

These Texas clearbodies have diffused body color and normal markings which fade to grey toward the wing tips. These Texas clearbodies are not the standard since the body color is visible, more so toward the vent and rump.

 

I think that when a bird has more dark factors..and color adding genes.. that's when the body color is more visable, called suffusion.. like my grey Dallas -- or it might just work out that some have more than others. If the bird wasn't a yellowface.. it would probably look alot different.

 

http://www.birdhobbyist.com/parrotcolour/clearbody.html

Edited by HurdyBirdy

Gotcha...we you all figure it out (Laughing out loud) :) I see where you and Nerwen are coming from.

Pardon me for turning my back Rainbow - is this a good shot?

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g212/jen.../budgies015.jpg

 

 

 

Here's another one with me and my girl (she's the one at the back) Nice huh?

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g212/jen.../budgies014.jpg

 

 

HE HAS NORMAL DARK TAILFEATHERS!!! :) The normal tailfeathers rule out clearflight. I think the clearwing gene is in there somewhere. The greeny/yellow color across the back and on the chest could be a combination of the dilution and the type 2 YF factors. (See here for a similar effect.) He may be goldenface as the mask yellow is much deeper than anywhere else on him that I see. I don't really see greywing in him. I thought pied at first because of the difference in shade across his chest and near his legs, but can't really tell if he has the pied spot on the back of his head, even with your new pictures. Does he? Just trying to cover all the bases before I give my guess again. :ausb: I'll reserve judgement now until you tell me yes or no. :)

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