A red-orange hybrid with bands of dark brown on the wings and chest. An indigo mask surrounds the eyes and part of the forehead. While the cheeks do appear to have some orange color, it’s unknown if these hybrids can have an obvious yellow phase.
A small, olive-green hybrid with a faded maroon and indigo crown, orange cheeks, and a yellow chest. The pictured bird’s dusky lory parent was red phase, meaning that the hybrid may end up slightly redder than one with a yellow phase dusky parent. Its dark color could also be attributed to a grey-green mutation, which
A very dark bird with slight shades of green, indigo, and violet throughout. It has a yellow-speckled nape and upper chest, red thighs, and a few scattered orange feathers on the wings. The bills of these hybrids are mixed with grey and orange. Given the red-orange throat, wing, and thigh feathers, it’s likely that the
A rare hybrid with very dark green wings, a black cap, yellowish legs, and a mostly indigo face broken up by small red markings inherited from the red phase dusky parent. They were first bred in 1942 and are usually produced to transfer rainbow lorikeet mutations to dusky lories.
A hybrid with a notably dark body. Its head is a slight shade of red with blue closer to the face, while the rest of the body is an army green marked by small yellow-orange chest feathers. These hybrids are sometimes used to pass on scaly-breasted lory mutations to dusky lories, but are just as
A rather “dirty” hybrid composed of dark forest-y colors. Dusky x leaf lorikeets have brownish heads with faded yellow-orange cheeks and a green crown. Their collars are a combination of lime green, orange, and brown, while their bellies are a mix of green, red, and brown. The thighs are bright orange and their wings are
