Here you will find a list of the most common colours or mutations of budgies available as well as a few identifying features of each colour or mutation.
The original colours available are the green and blue series, these later mutated due to cross breeding by fanciers and breeders so now we have a wide range of mutations or colours. Also at the bottom of the page we have a little bit of information on an anthracite (black) budgie, which is very rare.
There is a wide range of colours available, listed below are some of the most common:-
Albino
Cinnamon
Clearwing
Cobalt
Crested
Dominant Pied
Green (Dark
Green (Light)
Green (Olive)
Grey and Grey Greens
Greywing
Lutino
Mauve
Opaline
Sky Blue
Spangle
Violet
Identifying your budgie.
Colour: -Albinos
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: White with no blue or brown suffusion
Cheek Patches: silver / white
Eyes: Plum red / white iris
Tail: White
Wing: White without cinnamon suffusion
Legs and feet: Fleshy pink
Extras: Cock cere is fleshy pink
Colour: -Cinnamons
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: 50% of normal body colour
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue / Brown quill
Wing: Cinnamon or cinnamon opaline effect
Legs and feet: Greyish Pink or Pinkish Grey
Spots: Brownish Cinnamon
Colour:-Clearwing
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: As normal
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Blue
Wing: Yellow or white – Primaries yellowish white or white
Legs and feet: Blue / Grey Mottled
Colour: -Cobalt
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Cobalt Blue
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour: -Crested Budgerigar
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: As Normal
Head Feathering: Variable
Varieties:
1/ Full Circular
2/ Semi Circular
3/ Tufted
Colour: -Dominant Pied
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: As normal with clear patches on lower areas
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Clear (white / yellow) or dark blue
Wing: Clear Patches
Head Patch: Clear if present
Legs and feet: Blue / Grey Mottled or fleshy pink
Colour: - Green (dark)
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Deep Laurel Green
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour:- Green (light)
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Bright grass green
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / Grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour:- Green (olive)
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Deep Olive Green
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour: -Greys & Grey Greens
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Grey or Grey Green
Cheek Patches: Grey
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour: -Greywing
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Depth reduced by 50%
Cheek Patches: Light Violet (light grey in grey birds)
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Tinged Blue/Grey
Wing: Light Grey Suffused
Legs and feet: Blue / Grey Mottled
Spots: Grey
Colour: -Lutino
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Buttercup Yellow with no green or cinnamon suffusion
Cheek Patches: Silver or white
Eyes: Plum red / white iris
Tail: Yellowish white
Wing: Buttercup yellow. Flights are yellowish white
Legs and feet: Fleshy pink
Extras: Cock cere is fleshy pink
Colour: -Mauve
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Deep Mauve
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour: - Opaline
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: As normal
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue in green forms and blue forms
Wings: Black, normal pattern, on a body colour without patches
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Saddle area: The "V" shape are across the shoulders to the rump should be clear of black markings
Spots: Black
Head: The normal markings on the back-skull and neck should be feint
Colour: -Sky Blue
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Deep Sky Blue
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
Colour: -Spangle
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: As Normal
Cheek Patches: Violet/Silvery white
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail & Wing feathers:
Green – Yellow / Yellow & Black
Blue – White / White & Black
Legs and feet: Blue / Grey Mottled
Spots: Black edges with yellow or white centre
Colour: -Violet
Critical Identifying Features
Body Colour: Intense Violet
Cheek Patches: Violet
Eyes: Black / white iris
Tail: Dark blue
Legs and feet: Blue / grey mottled
Spots: Black
The Anthracite Budgie info:-
The new mutation or colour budgie is the black or anthracite budgie. People thought it was impossible but it has happened, the anthracite budgie has been classified as a mutation or colour as the first recorded black budgie has given birth to an anthracite/charcoal/black coloured clutch of chicks.
THE GENERAL BODY COLOUR: Rump, breast, flanks and under parts dark anthracite of an even depth of colour throughout
MASK: White, ornamented by six evenly spaced large round jet-black throat spots, the outer two being partially covered by the base of the cheek patches. The white of the mask extending over the frontal and crown, to merge with the black undulations at the back of the head.
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