Peach faced lovebird mutations
Peach faced lovebird comes in many mutations. Some of them you can see here, we will update this topic with more mutations.
Orange face mutation
In the orange face, we can find orange psittacin in those areas of the plumage where one would find red psittacin in the wildtype, also it is visible in the diagonal stripe on the tail feathers. The rest of the body is unchanged compared to wild form.
Aqua mutation
In this mutation we see reduction of psittacin around 50%. This results in birds that are neither green or blue, but a colour somewhere in between. The feathers that are coloured red at wild type become light pink.
Turquoise mutation
At this mutation we can see that reduction of the psittacin at the body is 90% and reduction on the wing coverts is 65%. This results in a bird with an almost blue body and green deposits mainly the wings, mask is more creme coloured.
Edged lovebird mutation
Edged dilute is an autosomal recessive eumelanin mutation. This mutation develops characteristic edges on mantle because the eumelanin reduction is higher (approximately 60%) in the center of the wing coverts than in the outer edge. The reduction in the other parts of the plumage is spread evenly and is approximately 50%.
The rump is lighter and the feet and nails are light grey.
Edged green lovebird mutation
In the centre we have a reduction of approximately 60% which gives us a light green / yellow inner area in the centre of the wing coverts. The rump is lighter and the feet and nails are light grey.
Dark Factors
When we talk about dark factors at wild type (green) birds, we have normal green (without dark factors), dark green (with one dark factor) and Olive green (with double dark factor).
Normal green Olive Green
Dilute green lovebird mutation
The inheritance of this mutation is autosomal recessive.
In this mutation the eumelanin reduction in the plumage is almost 80 to 90% and result is a yellow bird with green haze. The blue rump colour is a lot paler, almost light blue. The feet and nails remain unchanged, the flight feathers also remain grey.
Lutino lovebird mutation
The inheritance of this mutation is sex-linked.
In lutino mutation we have eumelanin reduction. Normally green feathers turn yellow, blue feathers, as we can find on the rump, turn white. The red mask remains unchanged. We have light feet, horn coloured nails and red eyes.
The colour of the feet is always completely flesh coloured.
Lutino Lutino Orange Face
Cinnamon lovebird mutation NEW!!!
At cinnamon (in contrast to the wild form) brown eumelanin is produced instead of black eumelanin. Cinnamon birds are born with red eyes, which turn darder after few days. Body colour is laurel-green.
Flight feathers are completely brown. The feet and the nails also have a brown haze.