I was in my local pet shop and noticed something different on some of the shops "Fancy" budgies. In the pictures, the budgie on the left near the wooden blocks has dark blue tail feather. Sorry I didn't get a photo of the back of the budgie, I didn't want to risk getting kick out of the store, only live pet store in my area.

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Now my question, I think this budgie is a yellow faced dominate green pied for the main body. I was wondering if anyone has breed this type of budgie before with a dark blue tail feather in Australia, and how is this mutation made?

The main tail feathers on green budgies are usually dark blue.

 

The budgie on the left in the picture looks like a young normal dark green or possibly olive green. The one in the middle is normal light green & the one on the right is opaline green

Edited May 18, 201213 yr by Neville

Neville is right and where did you get the idea that bird was pied ?