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The "albino" cockatiel also known as the whiteface lutino, is not the result of albinism. It is a breed that combines two genes of whiteface and lutino. The "Whiteface gene" removes all the yellow and orange that would be present in a Lutino, and the "Lutino gene" removes all the black and grey. So it has all white plumage, red eyes and pink ...
A white-faced cockatiel (sleeping) White-faced cockatiels have their psittacofulvin (yellow and orange) pigments deactivated by the blue gene, resulting in cockatiels with absolutely no psittacofulvin pigments whatsoever. This is a result of the same genetic mutation as the genuine Blue genetic mutation in all typical parrot and parakeet species.
The "Whiteface gene" removes all the yellow and orange that would be present in a Lutino. and the "Lutino gene" removes all the black and grey. The result is an all white cockatiel with red eyes. [4] In some cases a whiteface lutino can be nest sexed via the parents mutations, in instances where the parents mutations are unknown they are ...
Cockatiel colour mutations can become even more complex as one bird can have multiple colour mutations. For example, a yellow lutino cockatiel may have pearling – white spots on its back and wings. This is a double mutation. An example of a quadruple mutation would be cinnamon cockatiel with yellowface colouring with pearling and pied ...
The Pied cockatiel is the first mutation of cockatiel colour genetics, with a mostly grey to light-yellow and white feathers and orange cheek patches.. Pied cockatiels have large, random blotches of colour on their bodies, after the "normal grey" or "wild type" of a cockatiel's plumage is primarily grey with prominent white flashes on the outer edges of each wing.
Picasso, a 5-year-old cockatiel, accidentally escaped from her home in Ypsilanti and flew towards Ann Arbor, where she was found almost five days later.
It all began with the normal grey cockatiel as the wild type colour, the mutations started with the captive home breeding, It took about 100 years for the first mutation [3] to evolve, from the first captive breeding of cockatiels which was in France in the 1850s till 1951 which known the Pied cockatiel mutation as first mutation colour to be established in the United States. [4]
When a bronze fallow cockatiel is born, it has a pale pink eye. As they mature ,the eye color slightly darkens, a bronze fallow cockatiel's eyes are lighter than a Lutino cockatiel, whose red eye is darker. A yellow wash may emerge across the body. [2] One feature is unlike other mutations. Male bronze fallow cockatiels differ from females.