Hi All,

 

Im fairly new to this identifying variations of budgerigars so i need some help please Marshall is the blue cock on the left and Lily is the yellow/green hen on the right, cheers

 

Marshall and Lilly

 

Marshall

 

Marshall and Lilly

 

Lilly

Hi Joey,

 

Well, it looks like I've stumbled across this first, so I get to be the first one to try to help you. Although I might get it wrong, so hopefully someone will correct me.

 

Marshall is a normal, and even though his first picture looked cobalt to me, his other two make me think more of a mauve. So I think he is a mauve normal.

 

 

And Lily looks like an olive green recessive pied. But I am a little notorious for getting my shades of green wrong, so if the others think she doesn't look olive, they are probably right. But I see that she has clear primary flight feathers, so that makes me think that maybe, just maybe, she may be a dominant pied as well. But her markings don't really look dom pied/ recessive pied combo , so I could be wrong there, too.

 

Also, based on that last photo of her, her cere looks more like a cock, but there is too much glare for me to tell for sure. Is her cere whitish, or is it a smooth, overall pinky/purply color?

 

They are very pretty birds.

Hi Finnie,

 

Thank you for your quick reply and helpful information for me, the cere is smooth pinky purple, haha maybe I have mistakenly taken Lily for a hen :s

Marshall is a mauve normal and Lilly is a MALE dark green recessive pied

 

 

 

PS when posting photos please post only in the size of 480 by 640 as per forum rules

Edited April 18, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

Thanks for the reply, looks like i'm in the market for two hens now lol. My apologies for the over sized photos, i did edit them and re size them but obviously it didn't work, ill try again next time

 

cheers,

No idea on the mutations sorry but have to laugh as i have a marshall and a lilly too - good old how i met your mother

Haha yeah you know it but now I have discovered they are both cocks I may need to change ones name to barny and find two hens lol