I took this photo of my albino today, I don't know what she masks. When the light hit her she reflected a definate greeny yellow sheen. Just wondering if a bird masking blue reflects blue. Does anyone have photos of an albino that they know masks blue that has done this?

 

an albino is already a blue based bird. What you see showing through is suffision, which is a fault of colour that's not meant to be there and should've been washed out with the pigmentation. You'll see the same suffision in a Df spangle who will show it through also.

Derrr, I knew that! Lutino is a 'green' equivalent, I was having a stoopid moment. You don't see the colour normally it was just when the camera flash hit.

yeah, that's the suffision, which is usually picked up in pictures better than by eye for some reason.

As Libby told you & you already really knew, it’s a Blue series bird & it really can’t be masking Green as Green is dominant to Blue. The suffusion looks a GreenieBlue… I think why the flash picks up certain colours, is as I read once, lots of the colours in Budgies are in the Ultra Violet range, which human eyes cant perceive, but in some way the camera picks them up differently & then we can see traces of them.

 

Whether you can tell what an Albino or Lutino are masking is difficult, mostly I don’t think you can & it would need test mating to bring them out, but possibly you could tell whether it was masking either Normal or Opaline wing pattern if you got them in certain lights that would detect slight patterns in their wings