Blue White-winged Parakeet
A very rare mutation that may be extinct. Blue white-winged parakeets have fully blue bodies with darker, white-marked wings. Their bill remains brownish and their eyes are black.
A very rare mutation that may be extinct. Blue white-winged parakeets have fully blue bodies with darker, white-marked wings. Their bill remains brownish and their eyes are black.
A wild lutino mutant spotted by photographer Felix Uribe. It is almost completely yellow, save for a slightly lighter face and fully white primary and secondary flight feathers. Although very similar, the bird’s beak is also slightly lighter than normal. Lutino parrots like this white-winged parakeet typically don’t survive for very long in the wild.
A brownish-green bird with a whitish face, yellow coverts, and pale blue and white flight feathers. For comparison, a wild-type white-winged parakeet is shown on the right. This mutation is very rare and was likely captured in the wild.
The first (and potentially only) white-winged parakeet with this mutation was captured from the wild in Peru sometime before 2020. It was originally described as a DF dark factor, but this cannot be the case given its wild status. Grey-greens have army-green plumage that is especially dark on the wings and tail. Like wild-type white-winged