Is it a Clearflight Pied?

 

 

And her head seems strange.

Both birds are heavily marked on their heads they are both Opaline Greens…if they were being showed, the heavy head markings would be a fault, as they should have as clear heads as possible. You could say your bird is a Clearflight, but Clearflights should also have a Pied tail also. They are nice young birds.

I would love to see how they molt out because their head should clear up as they start to molt out.

They are pretty.

l noticed that this is your first post, Welcome to our forums :hap:

your budgies are beautiful.

Pieds don't HAVE to have have clear tails it just depends on where the pied gene affect. Clear flight pieds the point is they appear as normal as possible besides the unmarked flight feathers.

 

It is the M. Spangles that have to have a clear tail with normal wing markings (as a young one)

From WBO standard

 

CLEARFLIGHT LIGHT GREEN

 

General body colour:

 

rump, breast, flanks and underparts light green of an even depth of colour throughout without any breaks or patches of variegation.

 

Mask:

 

buttercup yellow, ornamented by six evenly spaced large round black throat spots, the outer two being partially covered by the base of the cheek patches. The buttercup yellow of the mask extending over the frontal and crown, to merge with the black undulations at the back of the head. The frontal and crown should be clear and free from all markings.

 

Head patch:

 

buttercup yellow at back of head.

 

Markings:

 

on cheeks, back of head, neck and wings; black with a well-defined buttercup yellow edge. All markings should be free from any intrusion of body colour.

 

Cere:

 

blue in cocks, brown in hens.

 

Eyes:

 

black with a white iris.

 

Cheek patches:

 

violet.

 

Primary wing flights:

 

seven visible buttercup yellow feathers in each wing.

 

Primary tail feathers:

 

buttercup yellow.

 

Feet and legs:

 

blue/grey mottled or fleshy pink.

 

 

 

I have seen pictures on some sites with coloured tails, so I guess that's where the confusion comes from...

Thanks for that norm I was with the understanding that Clearflights didn't have to have a clear tail. It still doesn't mean this bird it's but it has a 'fault' if your following the standards.

to me they both look like YFT2 opalines and the one is clearflight pied. I say YFT2 because they both have blue on the breast area.

 

there are some pictures of clearflight pied budgies in the "members budgies - variety of mutations" post at the top of the forum, the clearflights are in with the dominant pieds... the URL: http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=9579

Perhaps we should seperate the clearflight pieds from the dominant pieds in a "members' budgies" topic as I have noticed a lot of people confuse the two and they are both very different from each other.

Yes they do Sailorwolf and that might be an idea (will try and do on weekend when I have more time)

 

Dingo- these birds are VERY young looks around 6 weeks from the way they perch and the bars on the head still strong. A YF at this age will be totally blue on the body. The blue you can see here is from the camera (remember all green birds still have blue in the feathers)

 

You can see blue in this bub (left) however the father is a grey-green with a history of only greens.

Perhaps they are double factor yellow faces?? doesn't that make them more mottled? the one on the left seems mottley.

Cool thanks Nerwen

double factor yellowfaces get less green bleeding than a single factor which is why they look more mottled.

oooooh.

Goldenface maybe?

Or maybe justa light green? maybe you have just created a mint green budgie!!!!