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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 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 ...
A birdcage (or bird cage) is a cage designed to house birds as pets. ... for a budgie and 41 cm (16 in) for a cockatiel up to as much as 91–122 cm (36–48 in) for ...
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.
In an article published in Cage and Aviary Birds [2] Dr T Daniels summarised those that were known in 1981. Many of these failed to become established, and others, reported separately, may have been the same mutation which appeared in different parts of the world.
The genetics of the several Yellowface mutations and their relation to the Blue mutation are not yet fully and definitively understood. [4] [5]Much confusion and misunderstanding have arisen because the popular names given to these mutations are misleading.
The Greywing is an autosomal mutation of the dil locus with the symbol dil gw, and so is a member of the multiple allelic series which also includes the Dilute (dil d) and Clearwing (dil cw) mutations. [8]
Cinnamon specimens of many species have been observed in the wild. A stuffed Cinnamon Light Green budgerigar hen owned by Mrs Ellis of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, in 1935 and said then to be at least 50 years old was thought by Cyril Rogers to be wild-caught when he examined it.
Feather duster budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus), sometimes called budgerigar mops, are budgerigars that have a condition characterised by overly long feathers that do not stop growing at usual periods, giving the bird the appearance of a feather duster.