My husband and I were perusing this site http://www.budgieplace.com/colorsguide.html about budgie colors and mutations and took it upon ourselves to see if we could possibly figure out what our birds are. I never realized how intricate budgie genetics were! I included my reasoning based off of the information on the site. Please let me know where I'm getting off base and the reasoning so I can understand this subject a little better. Thanks!

 

 

I noticed that she appears to have a grey color to her iris that is not apparent in our other bird. We guesstimated that she is mauve (her sister and her father had incredibly beautiful, brilliant blue colors and on an off note, her mother was albino). Then I read a post by Daz on Understanding the Violet Gene and now I'm not so sure. Opaline is a little harder. She has more white than black on her head, but that might just be my perception? I also assumed that she's spangle since she has black stripes along edge of the body feathers. Is this correct? I'm also a little confused on pied. Is she dominant pied since she has the strip of white across the abdomen? I read another post that said you can have combination pied (Cause I need just one more thing to confuse me ) Very interesting subject, but I'm thinking it's going to take some time to figure it all out. Thanks for your help!

Jen

At a guess...

Sky greywing opaline pied ( not sure which one ).

Given she is a female, im leaning more towards cinnamon opaline dominant pied cobalt.

I agree with Dean. Cinnamon, not greywing.

It's probably just my screen, I can't see any brown.

Cinnamon wings do not always look what would typically be called "brown"

Edited October 29, 201014 yr by Dave_McMinn

I disagree with the cinnamon verdict. I see opaline dom pied greywing...........no brown there. Colour is darker than sky so I say cobalt. Not violet not sky.

 

I also assumed that she's spangle since she has black stripes along edge of the body feathers. Is this correct?

 

I don't think she's spangle. Greywing and opaline both tend to wash out wing markings, so when you have them combined, you can see a lot of wing feathers that look like spangle, so I think that is what you are seeing. Another thing about spangle to look for is that when spangle and opaline are combined, the bird will have body colored markings on its wings, instead of black (or grey in this case).

 

A good example of this is the bird in Dave's signature, except you would need to find a better picture of Dumb (or is it Dumber?) in order to see the wings. Dave has lots of pictures of this bird around here. I will go see if I can find one for you.

 

Here it is:

 

Dumb

Edited October 29, 201014 yr by Finnie

I'm with Kaz

 

I also assumed that she's spangle since she has black stripes along edge of the body feathers. Is this correct?

 

I don't think she's spangle. Greywing and opaline both tend to wash out wing markings, so when you have them combined, you can see a lot of wing feathers that look like spangle, so I think that is what you are seeing. Another thing about spangle to look for is that when spangle and opaline are combined, the bird will have body colored markings on its wings, instead of black (or grey in this case).

 

A good example of this is the bird in Dave's signature, except you would need to find a better picture of Dumb (or is it Dumber?) in order to see the wings. Dave has lots of pictures of this bird around here. I will go see if I can find one for you.

 

Here it is:

 

Dumb

 

Ah. I see what you mean. I read somewhere that the spangle gene is dominant so, if a bird does not have the spangle markings, does that mean that she doesn't carry the spangle gene? Her mother was albino - pure white feathers and red eyes and her dad was a brilliant blue, with darker markings than Wiggers.

correct a bird can not carry the spangle gene.

But can't albino mask spangle?

But can't albino mask spangle?

Yes but theres no spangle on the pictured bird.

Cinnamon opaline cobalt dominant pied - 100% with Dean on this one.