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Dominant Pieds are also known as banded pieds, they have stripe of colour on the chest and colour around the rump and on the under belly. Dominants are mostly the ones with the clearly marked 'bald' patch. Adult males get the normal blue cere.

Daz her post is in the 'my flock' area.

UGH now i'm confused i thought i'd be able to identify pieds now i'm all lost....okay in order to be a pied the bird has to have a spot on the back of the head? I read somewhere, not here, thatt that in order to be a pied there must be a white stripe across the tummy...so please explain to me how to indentify a pied again? does the pied have to have a specific color? what about yellow faces, i read that a yellow face is just that, and the yellow doesn't blend in anywhere else is this correct or am i REALLY misinformed? i'm so lost

Edited May 3, 200619 yr by lean2078

This might help :

 

http://geocities.com/nerwenfuzz_82/budgiemutations.htm

 

Again there are two types of yellowfaces, type one where the yellow is in the face area only. Then there is type two, and goldenfaces, where the yellow 'bleeds' into the body with each moult slowly turning the bird green. Aqua colur is also used to discribe these birds. The bird in my sig in the middle with the yellowface is a goldenface.

Edited May 3, 200619 yr by Nerwen

UGH now i'm confused i thought i'd be able to identify pieds now i'm all lost....okay in order to be a pied the bird has to have a spot on the back of the head? I read somewhere, not here, thatt that in order to be a pied there must be a white stripe across the tummy...so please explain to me how to indentify a pied again? does the pied have to have a specific color? what about yellow faces, i read that a yellow face is just that, and the yellow doesn't blend in anywhere else is this correct or am i REALLY misinformed? i'm so lost

 

In order to be pied, the bird will have the patch of feathers on the top of the head that are head color only, minus the bars, even the recessives. Recessives are just usually minus more bars. :ausb: Some blue pied birds will have a white stripe across the tummy, not all. As stated before, they are sometimes also called banded pieds. Some of them are identified only by the patch on the head - other than that they have no other pied characteristics. A pied can be any color. Whatever color their head is, is the color that the band will be. As far as yellowfaced blues, some will have the yellow blending in with the feathers so that they look greenish (type 2 yellowface), some will not (type one yellowface). Don't feel lost, at one time or another every person on here did not know what pied was. The longer you have these birds, the more you want to learn.

 

If this helps, all these birds are pied EXCEPT the two outside that have yellow faces and greenish bodies. They are your type 2 yellowface blues where the yellow bleeds into the the blue feathers, making the bird look green. They are not pied, they are normal greywings. But pieds can be that same color.

Edited May 3, 200619 yr by Rainbow