Red Rumped Parakeets

[amanda143]

We recently were very lucky to acquire a pair of red rumped parakeets. However, on close inspection, the female does not really look like the females I have seen in pictures that were a drab grey color. Ours is more of a olive green/yellowish color. I've not been able to find any pictures that match this description. My best guess is that it is a mutation of some kind. Does anyone on BB have red rumps?

[The Boy With The Birds]

is htere any chance of pics?

sounds like a pied or opaline

[amanda143]

She has clear nails, wine red eyes, light beak & feet, etc. I'm thinking some kind of fallow maybe.

[Monica]

I'd go with probably a cinnamon.... Definitely not an opaline!
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[The Boy With The Birds]

i would think a fallow, cinnamon are a shade or two lighter.how old is she?
as if shes young, she has red spots on her rump. in no other mutation is there red through the rump at all on a female, unless it has a tad of the opaline gene in it? otherwise could be a young cock.

[amanda143]

They are at least 4 years old or so. Don't know anything about their genetic background however. They have been mating for quite some time now. lol

[GoddessEternal]

She's a Pallid Opaline Hen, which is a rare mutation. You're lucky to have her, I have one myself who is very similar in colour. I have a recent pic of her below, so you can see the similarities. Yours has the red flecks closer to her rump, but mine's got them on the back of her head and back :).

Beautiful birdies you have there, I'd love to see more pics!



This is my Piper, so named because of her lovely trilling at 5am...

[amanda143]

Hey thanks! Beautiful girl you have there! I look forward to seeing these babies. I'll post some more pics soon.

[Chlo]

I saw some wild ones in my horse's paddock and didn't know what they were, I had to look them up. Very beautiful.

[The Boy With The Birds]

she is not an opaline mutation; i thought so as well at first but look at the eyes. Black eyed Clear eyes on amanda143's bird; while goddesseternel, yours has normal strained eyes, proving it amandas is defantly a dilute, pallid or fallow. The red is on the rump is coincerdental, but the one on goddesseternels is on the back, showing it's defantly an opaline, and that they are both defantly not the same mutation, one being an opaline and the other dilute, pallid or fallow.