okay, so I tried to search for information on different eye colors, and this is all I could find: FAQs

 

Actually, if you type 'eye color' into the search engine, it comes back that you used a word under 4 letters.

 

What I'm trying to find out is if there is a mutation that has dark plum eyes with iris rings.

 

I have an all yellow budgie with iris rings. I never thought he was a lutino, because even though his eyes have a slight dark-red tint in some lights, they usually look black. So I've been figuring that he was a DF spangle. But if he is, he must be masking something that causes that reddishness. I was thinking maybe that's what plum looks like, but I couldn't remember what mutation has plum eyes.

 

Or I suppose maybe he is lutino after all, just with the wrong shade of red eye.

 

I don't think a picture will help in this case. I can try to get one, but with my skills, I'm sure it will come out bad. Just suffice it to say that the eyes look black unless you get it in certain light, and then they look like a dark plum-red.

 

Has anyone got any ideas? Also, while we're at it, what are all the possiblities of eye colors/ iris ring combinations that a budgie could have?

....So Finnie goes off to search some more....

 

It occured to me that by adding an 's' to eye, it is no longer a three letter word.

 

Then I was able to find this topic, which I knew was somewhere, but I didn't know where to look: Topic about eyes in hatchlings

 

But that is primarily talking about newly hatched chicks. And when I got to the end of it, I noticed that I had already posted about this yellow guy with the not-red-but-not-quite-black eyes.

 

And nobody came on after me in that thread to tell me that my conclusions were wrong. Maybe that was just an oversight. Anyway, I don't want to hijack that other thread away from it's discussion of hatchlings, so I will ask here:

 

If you have an adult budgie with plum eyes and iris rings, does that indicate cinnamon?

I don't think a picture will help in this case. I can try to get one, but with my skills, I'm sure it will come out bad. Just suffice it to say that the eyes look black unless you get it in certain light, and then they look like a dark plum-red.

 

Pictures please

pictures would help. DEC arn't meant to have iris rings but i some how recall reading that it is possible.

Well just my guess but I would suggest that it's a cinnamon. Usually cinnamons eyes start obviously plum but darken to black but often if you compare a normal and a cinnamon in natural light, the cinnamons eyes have a plum tinge compared to the normals true black eye.

Here are the best pictures I've been able to get.

 

 

 

 

I don't seem to be able to get close enough to him to use the macro setting, he keeps flying away, so the pics are either blurry or too far away.

 

Is it possible for a lutino to have really dark eyes at a young age and then have them turn to a lighter, brighter red? Because he honestly started out with black eyes, when I was constantly checking him for iris rings. I've had him about 4 months now, and his eyes look "less black" but not really red. Maybe they are on their way to lightening up, if that makes sense?

Ino eyes are red from the beginning... you can see the pink eyes even when they are little tiny babies.