King parrots.

[asharee]

Just going through threads and google, i always thought king parrots were sexually dimorphic? like, i thought the male was the green one and female were red?

[silvercloud]

They are but it's the other way round, though the females have some red as well.

[vankarhi]

The ekkies are green and females are red/blue (eclectus parrots)

In kings as juvenilles are the same colour as hens until they mature when the male develops red on his chest. Hens have a little red diffused through their front

[meandem]

Young males have the wing stripe as well.

[angelicvampyre]

All above are correct males are red and females only have a little red. In my sig you will see elmo looks female but is a male without his colours. However there are some mutations which makes it harder to tell the males and females apart. Also alot of breeders DNA sex as you might not know visual sex till 8 or 9 months at the earliest and buys will not buy without a DNA cert as they can't tell the difference even if the breeders can.

www.avianweb.com/australiankingparrots.html

Scroll down and YES the yellow bird is a King Parrot

[vankarhi]

That is a great link AV ;D

[zooyouthben]

Its nt a yellow one, Its a Dilute.

[angelicvampyre]

Ben you are right but I said this to someone else and the could not find the Dilute but could find the yellow one so now i just say yellow but I should have known that someone on this board would correct me! I had another link before my computer crashed that had a bunch of King mutations and their names but now I can't find it

[robert]

Angelicvampyre, Is this the one you saw
www.mutace-papousku.com/en_fotogalery.php?akce=papousek_kralovsky
from Robert and Precious

[angelicvampyre]

Ben had a chat to a few king breeders and they all said that the yellow is known as a yellow and not a dilute (I always thoughts dilute but guess I am wrong)

Also got sent these by a breeder in QLD - Darren Donald (I believe this bird and it's mate is for sale if anyone has a spare $5000) A friend and I have found that of late people are trying to pass off birds ith yellow feathers from PBFD, Liver issues or another illness as pied so to get GOOD pictures of a true pied King are rare, Darren was kind enough to send these to me. They are all of the same bird youngest to oldest.
















If anyone is ever intrested in buying a pied king this is the marking and colours that you need to be looking for NOT the odd yellow feather. God I wish i had some extra cash to buy this guy and his mate!

[zooyouthben]

When ever we had Dilute Kings in the shop we sold them as Dilutes, a yellow king is a lutino one. Which is an even nicer bird!
But each to there own, its the problem with names that arent Scienetific!

[angelicvampyre]

Agree Ben mutations in the Kings are not well know nor are they around. Do you have any pictures of a Dilute or are they they same as the "yellow/Lutino"? It would be nice to have pictures of a Normal, Dilute, Lutino and Pied all next to each other to be able to visually tell the different and see the different types of mutations.

[meandem]

On our club's web-site there is a picture of a blue kingy.


www.inverellsocialbirdkeepersgroup.com/Photos.htm

[angelicvampyre]

OH MY GOD! WOW I had hear of Blues but never seen a picture of one, WOW just WOW Ok i so need one of these I think.... WOW

[meandem]

He certainly is a handsome little fella

[angelicvampyre]

*starts saving*

[dave]

Pied kingy