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branchez
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Spitfire wrote:Jack I need to ask, Is the bird White or Yellow, Or is it a camera trick. Albino because of the Red eye, maybe its a hybrid. Weve been reading a lot about those lately.
The bird is white and Tom I didn't make myself clear,the (hybrid)was not bred in that aviary.
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Yes, I fully understand that, Jack. I wondered if this "white" bird is IN the aviary we saw the hybrid in.
If so, it may well be a Hecks blackheart cross, white mutation nonetheless. That aviary had just such a mixed pairing in it.
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Uraeginthus wrote:Yes, I fully understand that, Jack. I wondered if this "white" bird is IN the aviary we saw the hybrid in.
If so, it may well be a Hecks blackheart cross, white mutation nonetheless. That aviary had just such a mixed pairing in it.
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Yes Tom,it's in the aviary we saw the hybrid.
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:thumbup: :thumbup:

I think I went off topic because of my concern about the mixed pairings in that aviary: red to yellow-beak and hybrid to yellow-beak. Iwould hope your friend might separate these pairs.
Sorry about confusing the issue.
I too think it is a white longtail mutation but also think it is a Hecks/blackheart hybrid from that aviary.

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Tom i don't believe it's a hybrid as such,maybe inter subspecie as it has a longtail tail not a short black throat tail. Craig
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Spitfire wrote:Jack I need to ask, Is the bird White or Yellow, Or is it a camera trick. Albino because of the Red eye, maybe its a hybrid. Weve been reading a lot about those lately.
For goodness sake don't anyone tell TF about this post, it will get the dam bugger all excited :lolno:
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Sorry, Craig. You're right re interspecies. I was talking about inter subspecies hybrids, like crossing masked with white-eared masked or black-rump db with white-rump.
My use of the term hybrid is not the one used normally by breeders. Sorry to confuse (again!) :)
Beautiful bird !!!!
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If it retains some pigment in the bib- which is usually black, not brown, then surely it can't be an albino ? Just asking.
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