Hi All,

 

It's been a while since my last post, but be assured that I have been keeping up to date with all the goings on...!!

 

I was just wondering if it was possible to tell the difference between a normal and melanistic spangle in an adult bird? I have checked out all the pictures I can find, but it wasn't really clear.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

SJW

I don't know anything about them but here is an interesting read http://www.bcv.asn.au/Melanistic%20Spangle.pdf

Look at the tail .......

 

Daz has a post on here in the mutation page there is info there

I didn't see anything specific in there about tail differences, and the pictures all looked similar to me. I know the melanistic spangle has a light coloured tail, and all the pictures I could see of normal spangles all seemed to have light coloured tails as well, so I guess I'm just getting a little confused....

http://www.bcv.asn.au/Melanistic%20Spangle.pdf

http://www.bcv.asn.au/Melanistic%20Spangle.pdf

 

 

Same link as my post above Nat.

This is My Skyblue Spangle .............

 

 

 

 

This one is Dazza's melanistic

Edited June 5, 200817 yr by KAZ

The tail is only a sign when young, this is when it is clear like a normal spanlge while the wings look normal, with mouting the wing patterns start to appear like a normal spangle. it would be hard to pick out a M. Spangle once grown from a normal.

 

another m.spangle (after moulting)

SJW the tail is not how you pick them from a regular spangle but how you pick them from a normal bird. A normal bird will have a dark tail and normally patterned (dark) wings, a regular spangle will have a light tail and light wings and a melanistic spangle will have a light tail and dark wings. Make more sense

Heheh .... I knew there was a tail thing in there somewhere .....

 

Best Bet is to ask dazza, he has bred them

Melanistic spangle usually have full mask spots where the normal should be bullseye spots.

i knew there was something else!