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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 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 ...
A rock dove nestling with visible pin feathers A budgie with pinfeathers from infancy. A pin feather is a developing feather on a bird. [1] This feather can grow as a new feather during the bird's infancy, or grow to replace one from moulting. The pin feather looks somewhat like a feather shaft.
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).
The Australian budgerigar, or shell parakeet, is a popular pet and the most common parakeet. Parakeets comprise about 115 species of birds that are seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build, and long, tapering tails.
Reports that "Albinos and Lutinos with black eyes" were being bred appeared in Europe in the late 1940s. Initially these were believed to be a separate mutation, but after a time it was established they were a composite variety containing both the Clearflight Pied and the Recessive Pied mutations. [11]
PBFD feathers of a budgerigar PBFD affected red-rumped parrot. Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) is a viral disease affecting all Old World and New World parrots.The causative virus—beak and feather disease virus (BFDV)—belongs to the taxonomic genus Circovirus, family Circoviridae.
Image credits: seekuneek #6. The worst Christmas for me was 9 years ago. That December my house came down with the Noro virus. We were all either sitting on the toilet or bending over a bucket.
Whipper is a budgerigar from Winton, Southland District, New Zealand. [1] His unusual appearance, long curly plumage, and vocalisations, which were caused by a genetic mutation called "feather duster" a very rare mutation, made him famous in his home country.