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  • FAQ: Can pallid revert back to SL ino?

    27/07/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    FAQ: Is it possible that, after several generations, the offspring of a pallid hen suddenly produce only SL ino young, assuming we are certain that

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  • FAQ: Naming order in mutation combinations

    27/04/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    FAQ: Naming order in mutation combinations Enthusiasts often like to combine different color mutations. This raises the question: in what order should the names of

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  • FAQ: melanin, eumelanin, phaeomelanin, melanocytes, melanosomes and keratinocytes?

    20/03/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    Nederlandse versie onderaan FAQ: When studying your articles on feather structure, terms such as melanin, eumelanin, phaeomelanin, melanocytes, melanosomes and keratinocytes in bird feathers are

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  • FAQ: Can a DNA or blood test detect the presence of colour mutations (split factor) in the genome?

    01/03/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    Nederlandse versie onderaan FAQ: Can a DNA or blood test detect the presence of colour mutations in the genome? We’ve been receiving this question more

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  • FAQ: pallidino or PallidIno?

    06/12/2025 Dirk Van den Abeele

    FAQ: The international guidelines state that combinations of alleles should be written as one word and that the names of both alleles must begin with

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Agapornis fischeri blue2

18/12/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

The last months we received several reports from breeders who bred blue2 Agapornis fischeri which develop a yellow / pinkish

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‘Red’ Agapornis fischeri

27/11/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

Benjamin aka Joven of Aby Aviary from the Philippines and the South-African breeder Willie Matthews, reported success ful breeding records

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Mitogenome of Agapornis personatus, Agapornis lilianae and Agapornis nigrigenis

01/11/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

In March 2019, the study on the mitochondrial genome of Agapornis fischeri was published by H. Liu [1]. Three weeks

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Afscheid van een vriend

29/10/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

Daarnet het trieste nieuws gekregen dat Harrie van der Linden ons gisteren helaas ontvallen is. Ik heb er eigenlijk even

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FAQ: Genetics behind urucum canaries – Urucum kanaries

13/09/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele Canary - Finches, FAQ, General, Genetics

Unlike wild and domestic canaries (Serinus canaria), the domestic urucum breed of canaries exhibits bright red bills and legs. To

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Mitochondrial genome of A. fischeri

24/06/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

Recently, Chinees scientists, described the complete mitochondrial genome of A. fischeri. Its mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 16,719

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Blue, blue type2, turquoise, *sapphire*, *teal*,…. and so much more ….

14/06/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General

This article has been published in April 2019, in Agapornis.Info, the BVA-International magazine. In the mean while we continued our

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Results feather research SL dominant greywing Agapornis fischeri

29/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

The first SL dominant greywing Agapornis fischeri were reported in 2009 in The Netherlands. Because of the inheritance is dominant,

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*Pallid* Cacatua galerita Eleonora??

16/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

*Pallid* Cacatua galerita Eleonora?? In the R&D centre in Belgium, they have a female Cacatua galerita Eleonora (The Eleonora cockatoo,

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Inheritance *dominant yellow* Agapornis fischeri

13/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

The last years we examined several breeding records of *dominant yellow* Agapornis fischeri. It soon became clear that this phenotype

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FAQ: Where are we with regards to the opaline mutation in Agapornis eye-ring species?

06/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ, General 2 comments

FAQ: Where are we with regards to the opaline mutation in Agapornis eye-ring species? FAQ: A number of years ago

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*Pallid* Black-headed parrot (Black-headed Caique)?

03/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

*Pallid* Black-headed parrot (Black-headed Caique)? Pionites melanocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Belgian breeder Mike Matthijs bred, since 2015, four ‘paler’ Black-headed

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Aanpassingen / revised taxonomy genus Forpus

01/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Taxonomy

Forpus xanthopterygius crassirostris  werd door  Howard & Moore in 1980, in A Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World

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FAQ: Can you see the difference between a dec Blue1Blue2 (turquoise) and a DecIno Blue1Blue2 (turquoise) Agapornis fischeri?

27/04/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ

FAQ: Can you see the difference between a dec Blue1Blue2 (turquoise) and a DecIno Blue1Blue2 (turquoise) Agapornis fischeri? Of course,

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Taxonomy in a nutshell

15/04/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General, Taxonomy

Taxonomy in a nutshell By Dirk Van den Abeele Ornitho-Genetics VZW MUTAVI, Research & Advice Group Published BVA-International magazin August

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Taxonomie in vogelvlucht

15/04/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Artikelen NL, General, Taxonomy

Taxonomie in vogelvlucht Door Dirk Van den Abeele Ornitho-Genetics VZW MUTAVI, Research & Advice Group Published in BVA-International magazine augustus

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