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there are many types of budgies & so many colors
to choose from
normal green
- Mask (face) - buttercup yellow
- Body - mostly grass green with upper back and
background of wings light yellow
- Tail Feathers - blueish black.
- Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
Dark Green
- Mask (face) - buttercup yellow
- Body - darker green than the light green variety mostly grass green
with upper back and background of wings light yellow
- Tail Feathers - blueish black and darker than the light green
- Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
- NOTE: - Green is sometimes splotchy and may even have a little blue
in it.
Olive Green
- Mask (face) - buttercup yellow
- Body - olive green color with upper back and background of wings
light yellow
- Tail Feathers - blueish black and darker than the light green variety
- Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
- NOTE: - Green is sometimes splotchy and may even have a little blue
in it.
- Mask (face) - white
- Body - bright sky blue color with black and white
wavey striped wings and back.
- Tail Feathers - blueish black.
- Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
Mask (face) - white
Body - rich cobalt blue color with black and white
wavey striped wings and back.
Tail Feathers - blueish black and darker than the
skyblue
Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
Cheek Patches - purple
Greywing Mauve
- Mask (face) - white
- Body - violet muted to about 50% of a non-greywing.
Grey wavy markings on back and wings.
- Tail Feathers - slightly darker blueish grey
- Throat Spots - three grey spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - pale purple
| a very hansome gray budgie |
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gray budgies
Mask (face) - white
Body - grey body with black and white wavy stripes on the back and wings
Tail Feathers - black
Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
Cheek Patches - blueish grey to slate color
Comes in light, medium and dark
Dominant Grey (Australian Grey)
- Mask (face) - white
- Body - grey body with black and white wavy stripes
on the back and wings
- Tail Feathers - black
- Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - blueish grey to slate color
- Grey, full grey, white grey, cinnamon grey, fallow
grey, and gray yellowface
Yellowface Type 1
Yellow mask and yellow rim on tail feathers.
Yellow on the head. The yellow does not spread over the body.
yellowface type 2
Same as type 1 only the
yellow spreads after first molt. Whole body yellow tint. (Yellowface II will turn a blue budgie ocean green)
| a yellow faced violet |
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| such a pretty bird rare in the USA |
Spangle:
| a yellow face sky blue spangel |
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- Spangles have reversed wing markings. The wing markings
look more like a very thin scallop on each wing feather.
- NOTE: - Spangle is a dominant trait.
rainbow
| the bird on the left is a rainbow |
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| the bird on the right is a white wing yellow face |
Rainbow" is an unofficial term for a very colorful
budgie -- usually clearwing opaline yellowface (type1) blues. The wing markings should be as faint as possible. Greywings,
and whites (opaline yellowface blue) are also often referred to as rainbows. Rainbows are not recognized as a specific variety
for show, but they can be shown as clearwings (where they would most likely not win as opaline clearwings of any variety rarely
do because they don't have "clear" wings.) so they would be better off, and usually are, entered as an Any Other Variety rare.
However, if one is raising birds for the pet market, the Rainbow is highly sought after as a pet or breeder. By the way, the
opaline yellowface (type 1) blue spangle is also spectacular and easier to produce and larger than the true rainbow.
Albinos
An albino is an all white budgie with red
eyes. Albinos lack the black pigment melanin. Their eyes lack the dark layer which protects against light - this allows the
red blood to show through making their eyes red in color. This lack of protection for their eyes makes them more sensitive
to light. The 'alb' in albino denotes the color white. The albino is the blue series verion of a Lutino. This is a sex-linked
trait.
| this is a yellow faced albino |
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| what you get when you breed albino & lutino |
- A lutino is actually the albino of the green series.
- NOTE: - this is sometimes a sex-linked trait. There
are two mutations - one which is sex-linked and the other not. Because these two mutations are visually identical, they can
only be distinguished through breeding.
True Violet Budgies were considered
a rare occurance. Although because the violet factor is dominant, their rarity is questionable. The violet factor isn't actually
a color in itself, but rather it is an intensifier of color.
- Mask (face) - white
- Body - deep violet color with black and white wavey striped
wings and back.
- Tail Feathers - dark blueish black.
- Throat Spots - three black spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
| wings of a A recessive pied |
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| Recessive Pied Light Green |
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| A recessive pied sky blue |
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A recessive pied is a bird where the body color is
broken, into either green and yellow or blue and white. In a recessive pied the bird will have a solid plum eye,
Mask (face) - buttercup yellow
Body - random patches of yellow and light green
Tail Feathers -
Throat Spots - any amount of black spots
Cheek Patches - silver/white
Beak Color
Feet/Leg Color -
NOTE: Recessive Pieds keep the "baby" black eyes and
the bars on his head
Dominant Pied
| wings of a dominated pied budgie |
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with dominand pied the color is more refined with
the band of coloring in the middle they have a horizontal band of white or yellow color across the belly. in other words it
is a neater looking bird
these types of birds will also have an Iris
Cinnamon
A cinnamon can be any body color. Cinnamons are colored very much like a normal budgie except where it would
normally be black on the wings, it is cinnamon brown, and their body colors look somewhat washed out.
Cinnamon Light Green
- Mask (face) - yellow
- Body - grass green body color is muted to about 50% of a non-cinnamon. Cinnamon brown wavy
on yellow for wings and back
- Tail Feathers - dark blue with a hint of brown
- Throat Spots - three cinnamon brown spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
Cinnamon Skyblue
- Mask (face) - white
- Body - skyblue body color is muted to about 50% of a non-cinnamon. Cinnamon brown wavy on white
for wings and back
- Tail Feathers - blueish color with a hint of cinnamon brown
- Throat Spots - three cinnamon brown spots on each side
- Cheek Patches - purple
Opaline
An opaline has a V-shaped design on the back. A good quality opaline should have no shell-like
markings on the back between the wings and there may be some body color in the wing markings. Opaline is a sex-linked trait.
Opalines come in all colors, since it's a wing
pattern mutation and has nothing to do with body color.
Dilutes have both the light grey wings
and the pastel body color
| RARE halfsider budgie one very pretty budgie |
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| another pretty verision of a halfsider |
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| black wing |
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| not sure if i fancy this type |
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