Creaminos and Lutinos


The "ino" bird comes in both the green series and the blue series peachface lovebird. Both are easily detected by their red eyes.

 

The green series "ino" is called a lutino. It is a bright yellow bird with a red face, white flights, pink feet, and a rump that appears to be white, but has a flourescent sheen in certain light.

Peaches is a lutino. She also could be on the "pied" page, because she is pied. The only way to identify a pied ino bird is by the line where the red face meets the yellow of the top of the head. If the bird is pied, the line will be borken instead of the clear, straight line of a normal lutino.

(Peahces, by the way, is not a very good bird, conformationally speaking. She is too slender with too much sway in her back.)

 

 

This little guy is also a lutino, but he is an Orangeface Lutino. The orangeface factor is exactly what it says. It changes the green series birds face and bib from the "normal" red to a "Tang" orange. It is one of the mutations that is visibly different in a "split" bird. (A bird that is split to OF will have an orangish-red bib and face compared to the red of the "normal.")

 

Diana is a creamino - a blue series "ino." Creaminos are a pale lemon chiffon yellow with pink feet, white flights and rump.

(The rump of the creamino also has the flourescent sheen that the lutino's has.)

This picture is also good for pointing out good conformation for lovebirds. It is ideal to breed for birds with large, rounded heads (like Jubilee, on top) rather than a narrower head and neck like Diana's.

 

And a better shot of a creamino....

 

This is either a whiteface creamino or a seagreen creamino, from the votes that I have gathered. As you can see, the Whiteface gene lightens the overall color of the bird, leaving it almost white in places.

 

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