Category: General

Almost daily we receive questions about genetics and how colour mutations are inherited, what are alleles, what is a crossing-over….etc.

Pairi Daiza and the Pairi Daiza Foundation, in close collaboration with the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP),

I had recently an interesting conversation with Mr. Chris Antony, a bird breeder from Australia. He informed me about a

In the context of a DNA study into the genome of the Indian ringneck parrot (Psittacula krameri), we would like

As announced last week we will update MutaBase in the upcoming weeks with the list of colour mutations in Cockatiels

In early 2000, Dr Terry Martin BVSc, published his book “A Guide to Colour Mutations and Genetics in Parrots” containing

On request we published a list of proven and possible colour mutations in Forpus coelestis. You can consult it on

In the past months, with the help from several enthusiasts, we were able to collect feathers from different colour mutations.

As with any possible new colour mutation, there are many opinions in the early stages. There are believers and non-believers.

Ismael Galván of National Museum of Natural Sciences (Spain) uncovers to exciting role of porphyrin colouration and what it might

A new case of parthenogenesis  has been described in California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) Parthenogenesis is a relatively rare event in

In 2018 we received information from a South African Agapornis breeder that the dun fallow Agapornis fischeri / Agapornis personatus