Mutant Galah 4

Query: Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Result: 25^th of 37

Mutant Galah 4

Subject:	Mutant Galah 4
Poster:	The Nottles (beluga@centralonline.com.au)

Resolution: 900x702 File Size: 163681 Bytes Date: 2007:01:17 18:23:35 Camera: DMC-FZ20 (Panasonic) F number: f/2.8 Exposure: 10/4000 sec Focal Length: 720/10 Upload Date: 2007:01:23 01:10:52

Mutant Galah 4

Here are the pics grossly enlarged to show how the colouring follows the
same pattern as the normal bird. I have never seen this sort of colour
deviation ever, in the thousands of these I have seen in my lifetime. Very
strange...

Comments

AusDigi
This is very interesting, I've never seen or heard of anything like this either. Do you think it might be a cross? Here in Sherbrooke Forest I have seen a rosella which looks like a cross between an Eastern and Crimson. But for something to look like that "Galah" in your photo one of its parents must have been a chockatoo or something really strange. If there weren't so many of the blighters I'd also suggest in-breeding. After some brief googling I found some references to unusual hybridisation, particularly among the cockatiel community.

The Nottles
I found one site that said galahs will crossbreed, esp. with sulphur crested cockatoos, so I am wondering if it mightn't have come from a cross with a black cockatoo... Betty

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