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Post by finchperson on Sept 20, 2009 17:05:54 GMT 10
Hi all- im starting up a thread on my #1 favorite bird- the Budgerigar. This is a thread about there mutations and how to keep them. I invite you all to use this thread. Any pictures you take of budgies please post here.
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Post by finchperson on Sept 21, 2009 16:03:59 GMT 10
Oh and a question ive been dying to ask someone is are there any wild mutations in budgies. I read somewhere that Pure White & pure yellow budgies have been sighted in the wild, just like marked white zebra finches have been seen in the wild!!!
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Post by Laraine on Sept 21, 2009 16:41:00 GMT 10
I personally haven't heard of white or yellow budgies in the wild, I'd have thought they were escapees.
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Post by robert on Sept 21, 2009 16:48:22 GMT 10
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Post by finchperson on Sept 21, 2009 21:10:59 GMT 10
Thanks so much robert for the link! It's really useful!  |
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Post by finchperson on Sept 21, 2009 21:13:10 GMT 10
I know there are escaped budgies but the book states that these odly coloured budgies where fully wild and seen in the outback in the 1970s.
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Post by finchperson on Sept 21, 2009 21:16:56 GMT 10
I also heard of wild blue budgies being sighted. Not sure if they where purely wild though, proberly escapes.  |
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Post by finchperson on Sept 21, 2009 21:20:29 GMT 10
Anyone know if the Brownwing mutation is still available? I thought the mutation was extinct, although it states in australian birdkeeper magazine that people still breed them. P.S. I hope people still do breed them!  |
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Post by avinet on Sept 21, 2009 22:04:01 GMT 10
I also heard of wild blue budgies being sighted. Not sure if they where purely wild though, proberly escapes. Mutation colours, principally sky blue and yellow occur very occasionally in wild flocks, but because their colour makes them stand out in a flock they are prone to predation by hawks etc. Most mutations appear to have originated spontaneously in captive bred stock but at least one mutation is derived from a wild bird. In 1933 an opaline hen was caught in the wild and that bird is thought to be the ancestor of all opalines in Australia. I did read somewhere that the original blues in Europe were bred from wild caught blue budgies but I can't find the reference tonight and other sources seem to indicate otherwise. A good account of the history of budgie mutations is on Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar_colour_geneticscheers, Mike |
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Post by finchperson on Sept 22, 2009 8:11:39 GMT 10
Gosh Budgie Mutations have a long backround! |
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Post by finchperson on Sept 22, 2009 8:18:23 GMT 10
Ive been searching the web, but still I cant find any info on wild budgie mutations.
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Post by robert on Sept 22, 2009 12:11:28 GMT 10
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Post by finchperson on Sept 22, 2009 15:18:15 GMT 10
Thanks so much Robert!!! |
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Post by Laraine on Sept 22, 2009 16:15:04 GMT 10
I've noticed that in the last year or so they are being sold at the Bird Sales. Before that I hadn't seen them. They are a cute little bird, very lively.
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Post by Damo on Sept 22, 2009 18:31:41 GMT 10
In my opinion i dont like the mutations in bush budgies and dont agree with people breeding them up, if 1 happens to come out of the blue it should be kept as a pet not to be bred up and we loose the pure strain in Aviculture.
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Post by Damo on Sept 22, 2009 18:32:25 GMT 10
Thats just my opinion
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Post by robert on Sept 22, 2009 20:09:11 GMT 10
Good you have mentioned that,Damo.Mutations can be pretty,but it is sad,when the pure strain is lost.
from Robert and Precious
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Post by finchperson on Sept 23, 2009 14:25:48 GMT 10
You do have a point there Damo. But I like all the mutations in budgies, I have a Greygreen and a Pied Colbat  |
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Post by finchperson on Sept 23, 2009 14:27:11 GMT 10
But every body has different opinions!
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Post by Damo on Sept 23, 2009 17:15:29 GMT 10
I have to say though i do like mutations in birds but i do rather the pure normals.
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