I was wondering if anyone could tell me what Skittles' colouring is?

I've been reading up on colouring and mutations (and have wasted most of the ink in the printer...oops )

And I've come to the conclusion that he is a YF2 clearwing, but I'm only an amateur so I may be way off the mark .

Cheers

 

 

 

you did well.

 

Yf Oplaine clearwing.

Cheers Nerwen

Does that make him a rainbow then?

I can never remember the mix for a rainbow but I think your right.

clearwing opaline yellowface (type1) blues - yep that is what I found when I did a search Nerwen :fear

Is 'rainbow' an actual variety?

All of the literature I've read has pretty much said that it is a broad term for particularly colourful budgies.

:fear

Edited November 10, 200717 yr by Bec Sta

your right it is not a mutation it is a combo of mutation

the combo is so colorful and pretty I believe they gave it a nickname

so if you were showing a "rainbow" you could example enter him in the Clearwing Group.

Edited November 10, 200717 yr by Elly

It seems the name [Rainbow] is used a lot in Europe.

Interesting

i'd say it's got cinnamon or greywing also on my comp?

Yes I would say greywing rather than a clearwing

On my screen I don't see hardly any marking but this is why he would be a clearwing

Clearwing budgies have very light or no markings on head and wings and the body color is brightened (not lightened or diluted).

 

so even if you can see some grey and it is very light as with this bird it is still considered a clearwing.

Skittles doesn't have any grey markings, (even though it does look like it in the picture) he does, if you look very closely, have cinnamon-ish coloured markings but they are extremely light.

And I didn't think he was classed as 'cinnamon' because that dilutes body colour(???)

Edited November 12, 200717 yr by Bec Sta

since has brown marking he is a cinnamon but he can still be a clearwing too

cinnamon can dilute the body but his body doesn't look that diluted at all

No, (Laughing out loud), he is quite the opposite, his body colour is very bright, he stands out like a sore thumb against my other guys, which is why I originally thought of 'clearwing'.

yep I still agree with clearwing and just add cinnamon in there too

So I can put Skittles down as a 'YF2 cinnamon opaline clearwing'...wow that's a mouthful (Laughing out loud)

Those markings look grey to me not cinnamon. An easy mistake to make. But remember if cinnamon the colours on this bird would be diluted and they are not ........a photo of the wings spread out please and a photo of the tail colour...which looks grey too.

Will get some more pictures, well I'll try to anyway, Skittles isn't very big on doing what he's told and he'd rather 'eat' the camera than sit still for it (Laughing out loud).

Will get some more pictures, well I'll try to anyway, Skittles isn't very big on doing what he's told and he'd rather 'eat' the camera than sit still for it lol.

I was just trying to get photos of my hand reared princess parrots and they were sitting in the front of my camera

(Laughing out loud) (I hope we get to see some of those pictures )

 

Ours is a little bit small for Skittles to sit on with ease, not that that stops him from trying.

The little bozo is attracted to anything shiny and/or that makes 'funny' noises.

 

You can't help but laugh.

Will get some more pictures, well I'll try to anyway, Skittles isn't very big on doing what he's told and he'd rather 'eat' the camera than sit still for it (Laughing out loud).

 

(Laughing out loud) I know that feeling Merlin does the exact same thing

he always flies on the camera when I am pointing it at him

He's gotta be greywing...........doesnt he ?

That photo was taken with a flash, so his colouring is a bit off.

But I took some more pics of his wings and tail today without the flash, now I just have to wait for the camera batteries to charge so I can get them onto the laptop.

 

I don't know if this will help without photos, but Skittles has aqua/blue and dark blue tail feathers (the flash really lightened them in that photo)

 

And he has a blue-tinted grey (it really is a weird colour (Laughing out loud)) on his primary feathers.

 

Going of topic for a sec, what is the difference between a Goldenface and a YF? I've only seen Goldenface pop up a few times in my research and I'd like to add it to my "Budgie Files" for future reference .

 

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