Budgerigar
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Budgerigars is a pat or Melopsittacus undulatus are small parrots from the arid Australian interior. They have been kept as pets since the 1800s in Europe. They are the most popular pet Parrot in the world followed by the Cockatiel. The name means "Good to Eat" in an Aboriginie language. In America they are called Parakeets.
[edit] Colours
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In the wild Budgies are green with a yellow mask (the head) and black shoulder spots. In captivity the have been bred to almost any color imaginable except red and black. After the wild green color, blue chest with with white wings covered by black marks and a white mask is next most common. Lutino, or all yellow, and Albino, or all White are other common colors. Most other colors are based on these ones. A list taken from Wikipedia lists all the colors. Please see their article for more scientific information on Budgie Color Genetics.
| Name & initials | Common name(s) | Type | Locus | Allelism &/or Symbolism | Inheritance |
| Dark-Factor (D-F) | Darkgreen (SF Darkgreen), Olive (DF Darkgreen), Cobalt (SF Dark_Blue) & Mauve (DF Dark_Blue) | Structural | Blue Loci | D-Locus | A-Co-D with only Blue Loci alleles, else exclusively/additionally A-I-D |
| Blue | Skyblue | Colour | Blue Locus | bl*bl | A-Co-D with only Blue Loci alleles, else exclusively/additionally A-R |
| BlueII | Yellowfaced_Blue type II | Colour | Blue Locus | blII-Locus | A-Co-D with only Blue Loci alleles, else exclusively/additionally A-R |
| Yellowfaced_Blue | Yellowfaced_Blue type I | Colour | Blue Locus | blII*yf | A-Co-D with only Blue Loci alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R |
| Goldenfaced_Blue | Australian Yellowfaced_Blue | Colour | Blue Locus | blII*gf | A-Co-D with only Blue Loci alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R |
| Crest-Factor (C-F) | Circular Crested, Semicircular Crested & Tufted | Structural | Cr-Locus | A-P-G | |
| Grey-Factor (G-F) | Dominant Greygreen & Grey... | Structural | G-Locus | A-C-D | |
| grey-factor | English recessive greygreen & grey, | Structural | g-Locus | A-R (extremely rare or extinct) | |
| grey-factor | Australian recessive greygreen & grey | Structural | ag-Locus | A-R (extremely rare or extinct) | |
| Slate | Structural | sl-Locus | S-L-R | ||
| Violet-Factor (V-F) | SF Violet Green, DF Violet Green, SF Violet Blue & DF Violet Blue (pure Violet) | Structural | V-Locus | A-I-D | |
| Suffused | Diluted Green (Dilute Yellow) & Diluted Blue (Dilute White) | Dilution | Dil-Locus | dil*dil | A-Co-D with only dil-Locus alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R |
| Clearwinged (CW) | Clearwinged Green (Yellowinged) & Clearwinged Blue (Whitewinged) | Dilution | Dil-Locus | dil*cw | A-Co-D with only dil-Locus alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R |
| Greywinged (GW) | Greywinged Green & Greywinged Blue | Dilution | Dil-Locus | dil*gw | A-Co-D with only dil-Locus alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R |
| FullbodiedGreywinged (FBGW) | FullbodiedGreywinged Green & FullbodiedGreywinged Blue | Dilution | Dil-Locus | dil*cw / dil*gw | A-Co-D (Hetero-Allelo-Morph mutation produced by crossing Clearwinged & Greywinged specimens with one another) |
| Anti-dimorphic (ADM) Pied (ADMpied) | Danishpied, Recessivepied, Harlequin | Local-Leucism | s-Locus | A-R | |
| Piebald | Australianpied &/or Bandedpied | Local-Leucism | Pb-Locus | A-C-D | |
| Piednape | Continental_Dutchpied & Clearflighted_Dutchpied | Local-Leucism | Pi-Locus | Pi*Pi & Pi*cf | A-C-D |
| Dark-Eyed-Clear (DEC) aka Clear-Pied (CP) | DEC Green (Dark-Eyed-Yellow) & DEC Blue (Dark-Eyed-White) | Total Leucism | s-Locus / Pi-Locus | A-Co-D (unstable clear morph produced by visually combining ADMpied with either Continental_Dutchpied or Clearflighted_Dutchpied varieties) | |
| Spangle-Factor (Sp) | SF Spangled (showtype / typical mutation) & DF Spangled (clear white &/or clear yellow morphs) | Total Leucism | Sp-Locus | A-I-D | |
| NSLino | Non-Sex-Linked Ino aka Recessive Ino | NSL Complete Albinism | a-Locus | a*a | A-R (extremely rare or extinct) |
| Bronzefallow | Germanfallow | NSL Incomplete Albinism | a-Locus | a*bz | A-Co-D with only a-Locus alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R |
| Brown &/or Sepia | Brownwinged | NSL Incomplete Albinism | b-Locus | Presumed A-Co-D with only a-Locus alleles, else exclusively/inclusively A-R (extremely rare or extinct) | |
| Faded | NSL Incomplete Albinism | fd-Locus | A-R (extremely rare) | ||
| Beigefallow, Palebrownfallow & Palefallow | Australianfallow | NSL Incomplete Albinism | pf-Locus | A-R | |
| Dunfallow, Greybrownfallow | Englishfallow | NSL Incomplete Albinism | df-Locus | A-R | |
| Plumeyedfallow | Scottishfallow | NSL Incomplete Albinism | pl-Locus | A-R | |
| Cinnamon (cin) | Cinnamonwinged | SL Incomplete Albinism | cin-Locus | S-L-R | |
| Cinnamon-Ino aka LaceWinged (LW) | LaceWinged Green (LaceWinged Yellow) & LaceWinged Blue (LaceWinged White) | SL Incomplete Albinism | cin-Locus | S-L-R Cross-Over mutation occurring between Cinnamon & SL Ino Loci | |
| SL Ino | Sex-Linked Ino | SL Complete Albinism | ino-Locus | ino*ino | S-L-R |
| SL-Clearbodied (SLCB) | Texas Clearbodied (TXCB) | Partial-Albinistic (Parino) | ino-Locus | ino*cl | SL-Co-D with only ino-Locus alleles, else exclusively/inclusively S-L-R |
| Blackfaced (BF) | Melanism | bf-Locus | A-R | ||
| Darkwinged (DW) | Modifier | dw-Locus | A-Co-D (only noticeably expressive in combination with dil-Locus alleles & most interestingly with Greywinged & Suffused) | ||
| Dominant Clearbodied (DCB) | Easley's Clearbodied (ECB) | Uncertain | Cl-Locus | A-C-D | |
| Opaline (op) | Pigment redistributing | op-Locus | S-L-R | ||
| Saddlebacked (SB) | Local-Leucism | sb-Locus | A-R (extremely rare or extinct) |
[edit] General Apperance
Budgies are about 18cm (7 inches) long and weigh 30-40 grams. At about 4-6 months old the cere, or area of skin above the beak where the nostils are located) will usually turn blue for males, and pink or tan for females. The often have a mustache like group of feathers on their face.
