Hybrid

[spanna]

I love the colours on my unhybridized major mitchells...

[Finch_Breeder]

I love the colours on my unhybridized major mitchells...

Major mitchells are nice birds.

[natamambo]

The problem is they are pretty, so uninformed people like them. Not realizing this is being done on purpose to seperate them from their hard earned dollars. It is in no way to the benefit of the bird, who has no choice of mate.
LML

As long as the purpose is as a pet, the authenticity of the bird type is irrelevant. In that context hybridization is no different to hand rearing (not a go at Deb either). In either case it's not done for the benefit of the bird from an aviculturalist's point of view.

[KENTUCKY]

Appears to me more like a Hybrid between a Galah and a Major Mitchell

[arthur]

Website says Galah x Citron Crested Cockatoo

Can see no reason to doubt this

[jusdeb]

Chances are it will be a mule anyway .

As much as I dislike hybrids for the sake of creating hybrids I agree with Natamambo , as a pet there is a niche for them and some of them are gawjus ( Galah x Corella being my fav ).

It does make me sick when I see licensed birds bred to create hybrids though , makes a mockery of having them licensed in the first place .

No offence taken Nmambo ... its like everything theres greed , good and bad every where anyhoo yeah its different but give me a MM any day for colour or even a nice Galah .

[natamambo]

Actually, the website says it's a "galah citron cockatoo hybrid". The citron is a subspecies if the Lesser Sulpher Crested cockatoo found in Sumba Indonesia and now critically endangered in the wild but common in US as pets. The citron ssp has an orange crest instead of yellow.

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/yellow-cre ... on-crested

So, I suspect all your guesses are wrong .

Deb, the licence is created by bureaurcracy. By your logic it's ok to hybridise heck's finches and longtails in Victoria but not NSW .

[jusdeb]

Wrong wording when I said licensed I was referring to any threatened specie or any bird that is struggling in the wild to keep numbers up .......so not so

IN ANY STATE


Bloody hell its just too hard sometimes isn't it

[finchbreeder]

I hope we can say that none of us condone the use of endangered or at risk birds in the breeding of hybrids. The use of common types like Galahs/Corellas for the pet trade? Are you really sure that the results are mules? Because Macaw crosses are not and are then bred together again to produce even more colourful birds. And there goes the pure type Macaws. http://www.google.com.au/search?tbm=isc ... 1.4.7l13l0
LML

[vettepilot_6]

I think it will always come down to the almighty $$