Talk:Budgerigar colour genetics

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[edit] Wikify

I've started the wikification process. It's not an easy one but I'm hoping to complete this soon. Dingopup 00:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

I've boldy gone and made some changes to the article. The information comes from "The Complete Book Of Budgerigars" by John Scoble (published in 1981 by Lansdowne Press, Sydney). The book has information on the history of when mutations started appearing, but some of that information conflicts with the information in the article (in such cases, I have left the article as it is).

First of all, the article says that the first mutation bred in captivity is Green Suffused in 1870, the book says that the first captive-bred mutation is Yellow in Belgium 1872. Also, the article says that in 1918-25, GreyWings Green & then GreyWings Blue England & Continental Europe, and in 1935 YellowFacedBlue and GoldenFacedBlue occurred in several 'places'. The information from the book says that in 1875 Greywings appeared in Belgium and in 1937 Yellowface mutation appears in England. Roxybudgy 11:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

This article should be re-named Genetics of color in Budgerigars, as it does not cover other aspects of the species genetics. Unfortunately, I do not know how to accomplish this, boldly or otherwise.