FEATURE
Manycoloured Parakeet
with a quantity of black in the head that may indicate a previous crossing with a Port Lincoln and Barnard x Port Lincoln hybrids are unfortunately sometimes offered for sale to the unknowing. Blue, pied and fallow mutations have all appeared, the popularity of the blue mutation undoubtedly impacting on the numbers of normal birds bred.
CLONCURRY PARAKEET (Barnardius Zonarius Macgillivrayi)
sexing by sight particularly difficult. Birds are occasionally seen which demonstrate previous hybridisation with Port Lincolns, with some yellow or yellowish feathering on the belly. The blue mutation is now common on the Continent, this is reflected in the UK, with as many people attempting to breed blues as attempting to breed normals.
BARNARD’S PARAKEET (Barnardius Zonarius Barnardius) Kept and bred in reasonable numbers in the UK, though far less so than only 5 or 6 years ago. Barnard’s are always incredibly variable in their plumage, particularly the depth of colouration on the back, the orange belly band and head markings. Occasionally a bird is seen
Once incredibly sought after, the market was flooded during the 90s and the price plummeted. Cloncurries are now bred in steady numbers, though not as commonly as they are on the continent. Due to a tiny initial gene pool in European aviculture, unrelated birds should always be traced to make up breeding pairs.
RED RUMPED PARAKEET (Psephotus Haematonatus) Very widely kept and bred in the UK, the issue here being the scarcity of normal birds. Only a tiny number of pure normal Red Rumped Parakeets now exist in this country, and many of those advertised as such actually display some opaline markings on the wing coverts or are of a slightly washed out colour when compared with true normal birds. Amazingly and incredibly sadly there are probably far more breeding pairs of Hooded Parakeets in the UK now than there are pairs of pure normal Red Rumps. The establishment of a nucleus of breeding normal Red Rumps must surely be a worthwhile goal for someone.
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