they are yellow...but what are they

May · Joined: Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 281

Just found this from a while back..... Petals eyes are in fact black but the flash on the camera picked them out red. Ive noticed a lot of adverts in the UK online and also pet shops selling yellow birds as Lutino even tho the birds have black eyes... Shame on you

pabloc · Joined: Sep 26, 2007 Posts: 988

Hi,

your "banana family" (I laughed hard with this one, very sharp!) are a combination of:
dominant pied and recessive pied

Then... that combination receives a name. Depending on the region/country, they are refered to as goldcheck, BEC (black-eyed clear), DEC (dark-eyed clear.), etc...

By no means they are lutino.
Supposedly in kakariki we don't have yet the lutino mutation, and apparently the yellow birds with red eyes are indeed a combination of goldcheck + fallow.

As Steps says, if you search around the forum, you'll find plenty of discussions about this topic.

Cheers / Pablo