Pied
Lovebirds
The first chick I ever hatched was a pied. His
mother was a lutino and his father was a normal green. Knowing
nothing of lovebird mutations, I assumed that if you crossed a green
bird with a yellow one you got a green and yellow one! As it turns
out, his mother was actually a pied lutino, but it didn't show up
very well to the untrained eye.
Below is
whiteface pied. I just love his coloring!
Lovebirds
can vary greatly in their degree of "piedness." Some are so heavily
pied that they are almost entirely yellow. Others may be so lightly
pied that it is hard to detect. Sometimes only a single feather or a
single white toenail will be the only evidence of the pied
factor.
Here are three different pied birds. The one on
the left is an immature (young) green pied. You can see the beginning
of a red bib on him. The bird to his right is a seagreen violet pied.
It has a single Whiteface factor. It is a lightly pied bird -
evidenced in it's small amount of yellow on the mask and a few white
flight feathers. The bird behind and to the right of her (in the
background) is a heavily pied blue. It has a lot more yellow. (And
you can see the difference in the bib colors. The seagreen pied has a
much whiter bib than the blue pied.
And below is a very heavily pied bird.
And I just had to include this one, because I
like the shot.
All those colors!!!
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