I read about long flight birds and the photos were old and im just wondering if any one could post some pics comparing a long flight budgie and a normal one.... :sad:

thanks guys

never heard of that? I would also be interested in seeing more informaiton.

Never heard of that either. Interesting to find out

Some snippets from the internet....

The Long-flighted birds have large heads, very long, flatish bodies and extremely long flight and tail feathers. These features taken collectively spoil the fine outline of Budgerigars and they were barred from some clubs from show benches. However it is through these birds that the bolder heads of present day exhibition stock are due to the careful use of Long-flighted characters in the past.

 

 

and more

It was around the fifties, or a little earlier, that two gentlemen Ken Farmer and Frank Wait had become known for their work with long-flighted budgerigars, a feather mutation which they were able to use, through their skill as fanciers, to improve the exhibition budgerigar and sow the seeds of the exhibition bird tday. Bob commented that these birds still crop up from time to time, but it remains proper that they are not welcomed on the show bench: their usefulness is confined to the breeding room. He felt that this mutation could be directly compared to the other mutation that British fanciers are working on a t present – the “Feather Duster” , asserting that the difference between the two is that the longflight has always had a future and the Feather Duster has none – apart from anything else, it does not live long enough!

 

So, what did the longflight give us? The answer lay in larger feathering and an increase in the number and length of flights in those wing flights, with larger tail feathers. It was also accompanied by much stronger head qualities, and these were all features that Frank Wait particularly was able to develop and use to improve most of the varieties being shown at that time. Something which also stood out on most such birds was a far brighter, penetrating and almost aggressive eye. This ‘eye-sign’ remained with second and third generation birds bred from longflighted stock.

Any pictures Kaz ?

Any pictures Kaz ?

The article is talking about foundation birds used in early breeding in the fifties...so no. No pictures.

Any pictures Kaz ?

The article is talking about foundation birds used in early breeding in the fifties...so no. No pictures.

 

What a shame. It sounds interesting. I tried Googleing it too - got nothing

I tried the same no pics. Budgies R Cool, can you post them old ones you have ?

wow, im just wondering what was so bad about the long flighted birds and why were they banned. Where they to good?

 

well these old photos are in a book but i might be able to photocopy them one time

I read about long flight birds and the photos were old and im just wondering if any one could post some pics comparing a long flight budgie and a normal one....

thanks guys

 

 

I'll go through my pics I may have an example like the feather duster one.

 

There were still a lot of long flighted birds in the late eighties and nineties people used them for the size advantage. They didn't necessary have big heads.They always reminded me of a pigeon.

 

A big push came in the early nineties to reduce the wing size in the exhibition bird. Birds with longish wings were heavily penalized on the show beach and much debate followed as to the right size, as people feared that a large bird with small tight wings may not fly. Just another part of the jigsaw!

 

Interesting time for budgies 80's and 90's,

Like when the English birds first arrived on our shores through the first import

syndicates. A lot of people dumped there entire stock of Aussie budgies only to disappointed with early results.

But that's another story for another time!!

 

Found it!!

 

A Grey Green opaline from about 1988-89 I pulled this image off a old video of my birds from back then. There was nothing magical about these birds they were to be blunt, big and ugly!! They usually but not always had a lump at the back of the neck and or one near the rump between the wings. They rightly deserved to be part of the past not present!

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This is another bird from about that time with great wings. High and tight!

 

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Edited February 21, 200817 yr by throwback

yes they look so odd....

and so weird!