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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. Small, long-tailed, seed-eating parakeet Budgerigar Temporal range: Pliocene–Holocene Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Blue cere indicates male Flaking brown cere indicates female in breeding condition Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain ...
Swim briefs are also referred to as competition briefs, swimming trunks, bathers, togs, racer bathers, posing briefs, racing briefs, and colloquially in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom as budgie smugglers. [2] Like underwear briefs, swim briefs feature a triangular shaped front and a solid back providing form-fitting coverage ...
The English Fallow is an autosomal mutation causing recessive changes to the form of the melanin pigment. There is no universally accepted genetic symbol for either the locus or mutant allele, so the simple symbol fe + will be adopted here for the wild-type allele at this locus, and the symbol fe for the English Fallow mutant allele, in keeping ...
Full Body Greywing, Sky Blue Single Factor Violet, Yellowface Type II Budgie. The Clearwing Light Green has green body feathers only very slightly paler than the normal or wild-type Light Green with highly contrasting yellow wings. The Clearwing Skyblue is similar but with a blue body and white wings.
The wildtype (natural-coloured or wild occurring) budgerigar's color is called Lightgreen. The feathers of most parrot species, including budgerigars, contain both a black type of melanin named eumelanin along with a basic yellow pigment named psittacofulvin (psittacin for short).
Parakeets comprise about 115 species of birds that are seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build, and long, tapering tails. [citation needed] The Australian budgerigar, also known as "budgie", Melopsittacus undulatus, is probably the most common parakeet. It was first described by zoologists in 1891.
Thanks to its connection to one of the most important journeys in American history, exploration maps have been known to fetch thousands at auction, like this one that sold for over $6,000 in 2012.
The history of the English Grey begins in 1933, when Mr T Watson of Bedford, England, discovered and purchased a hen of a slatey grey colour from a dealer.This may or may not have been an English Grey, as Mr Watson failed to establish the strain, but his report in 1935 [3] of the bird's existence prompted both Mr E W Brooks of Mitcham, Surrey to report his breeding of Greys from two Cobalts in ...