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To whom it may concern

12/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General Leave a comment

We receive several requests for webinars in 2021. Unfortunately, we have a

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FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are they a grey mutant?

25/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele

FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are

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FAQ: can we have DF hens in SL (incomplete) dominant mutations?

12/11/2020

Have cockatiels or Agapornis species parents crop milk as pigeons have?

14/09/2020

FAQ: If blue1 and blue 2 are alleles …

03/07/2020

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Parthenogenesis in Agapornis roseicollis

10/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General Leave a comment

The article on this particular case was published in BVA-International Journal of

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To whom it may concern

12/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General Leave a comment

We receive several requests for webinars in 2021. Unfortunately, we have a busy schedule, so we cannot meet all requests. We review every application, but

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Parthenogenesis in Agapornis roseicollis

10/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General Leave a comment

The article on this particular case was published in BVA-International Journal of April 2009 By Dirk Van den Abeele Ornitho-Genetics VZW MUTAVI, Research & Advice

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S.O.S. Swift parrot [Lathamus discolor]

09/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General Leave a comment

As we announced on this blog in 2014: the swift parrot [Lathamus discolor] is an endangered parrot. And unfortunately the situation has not improved over

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Talking lovebirds?

07/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General Leave a comment

Can Agapornis spp talk? I often get that question. In the past thirty years, I have received only one report that there was a lovebird

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Psittacofulvins in blue1 or blue2 feathers?

02/12/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General Leave a comment

Blue Agapornis fischeri and Agapornis personatus are considered not producing any psittacofulvins (psittacines) in the feathers. However, we could not ignore the fact that there

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Blue-crowned hanging parrot tucking pieces of leaf among throat feathers

30/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General One comment

Long time we suspected that only Agapornis roseicollis is transporting nesting material between the feathers on her rump or upper tail. But later we also

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Cursus 2021 cancelled

27/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General Leave a comment

Daarnet werden in België de verdere coronamaatregelen bekend gemaakt. Deze zijn nog heel strikt en laten geen bijeenkomsten toe (buiten max 4 personen). Deze maatregelen

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FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are they a grey mutant?

25/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ, General 10 comments

FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are they a grey mutant? The answer is actually simple: absolutely not. For a

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Agapornis roseicollis pale

22/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General Leave a comment

Agapornis roseicollis pale? By Dirk Van den Abeele Ornitho-Genetics VZW MUTAVI, Research & Advice Group Published BVA Magazine August 2017 About three years ago I

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Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

18/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General 2 comments

Nature ( the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal) published an article  in which they announced a substantial step towards the dense representation of avian phylogenetic

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List colour mutations in Genus Agapornis

14/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General One comment

Seem there was a typo in our list of colour mutations in genus Agapornis. So we uploaded the adjusted list. (Thanks Sergio) https://www.ogvzw.org/downloads/mutationsagapornis.pdf

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FAQ: can we have DF hens in SL (incomplete) dominant mutations?

12/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ, General Leave a comment

FAQ: can we have DF hens in SL (incomplete) dominant mutations?  Answer: NO A sex linked (incomplete) dominant mutation is located on the Z chromosome

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  • Dirk Van den Abeele on FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are they a grey mutant?
    I am afraid that there are also DF
  • Sutrisno on FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are they a grey mutant?
    Hi Mr. Dirk, the misty hen will
  • beverly moody on Blue-crowned hanging parrot tucking pieces of leaf among throat feathers
    My Blue-crowned hanging parrots do
  • Dirk Van den Abeele on FAQ: Are slaty and misty the same mutation and / or are they a grey mutant?
    It is always difficult to describe
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