Hello everyone...If you've checked out budgie pictures lately I'm sure you've met Butter. She is a very cute bird and the first time I've owned a dilute yellow budgie. In the picture below, you can't see the faint yellow in her wings. Can anyone tell me what they think her type is. I think she is a cinnamon wing dilute (yellow) dominant pied...if there is such a thing.

Just a note...in her pictures, she looks greyer than usual

 

I'd like to eventually mate her with Clyde...seen below. Any guesses on the offspring?

Edited February 5, 200619 yr by kcskeeper

Could you put a photo of her back??

 

In these photos, I see she is grey yellow face greywing.

 

The other one seems mauve.

 

Let me try and get a picture for you. I don't think she's a gray wing. I think the flash on the camera caused her to look more gray than she really is. When I look at her back and head, the markings look more brown than gray. I'll try and get a picture soon.

 

Here are 2 pictures of her back. The first is with the flash and the second is without.

 

You can see how the flash gets rid of her brown and makes her look gray.

Oh, butter, butter butter - I LOVE Butter! She would fit in great with my two dilutes. What a beautiful girl!!!

Type 2 yellowface grey dilute...or maybe cinnamon...

Edited February 5, 200619 yr by eterri

she is ssssssssoooooooooooooooooooo CUTE!

Thank you all so much. We love her here too. She fits right in with Piggy, Peaches, and Clyde. Any guesses what the babies will look like?

I would say yellow face type two cinnamon looking at the throat dots.

 

Looking at the back photoes the flight feather really do look grey to me, but I wonder if she is opaline as well. You spoke of pied, does she have a clear patch on the back of her head?

 

Both cinnamon and opaline can wash some colour out.

 

as to babies:

Grey yellowfaces and blue yellowfaces.

No clear spot on the back of her head. All of her markings that are normally black in a normal bird look light brown.

 

Looking at the back photoes the flight feather really do look grey to me, but I wonder if she is opaline as well. You spoke of pied, does she have a clear patch on the back of her head?

 

Both cinnamon and opaline can wash some colour out.

 

 

What makes a bird an opaline.....?

Opaline is a striping pattern mutation. It reverses the striping pattern on the head feathers so that there are thicker white areas and thinner black stripes. Another feature which adds to the beauty of this mutation is that the body feather color runs through the stripes on the back of the neck and down through the wing feathers. Opaline budgies' tails are characteristically patterned with light and colored areas running down the tail feather.

http://www.geocities.com/budgie-place/p_colors.html

 

You can also see some picture of what is meant

It reverses the striping pattern on the head feathers so that there are thicker white areas and thinner black stripes

 

That bit sound more like spangle not opaline. But I was wrong with opaline I was looking a the 'v' shape on her wings but the wings should be grey toned to be opaline and she clearly has yellow wings.

Thanks so much for the info. I'm still trying to master all of the mutations. I appreciate the update.