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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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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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It was busy yesterday

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As a result of our post about turquoise Agapornis fischeri, we had a lot of visitors to the site and a lot of comments (+120).

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Genuine turquoise Agapornis fischeri?

07/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General 15 comments

As I mentioned in my previous articles on the bl-locus, there are breeders that have (most probably) the real turquoise mutation in Agapornis fischeri (for

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On request: Agapornis roseicollis: dilute versus pallid

06/11/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK 2 comments

Agapornis roseicollis: dilute versus pallid By Dirk Van den Abeele Ornitho-Genetics VZW MUTAVI, Research & Advice group Published BVA-International Journal  – October 2014 It goes

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Archive articles

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We updated our database with our articles published in Díszmadár magazin (Hungary) More info: https://www.ogvzw.org/archive/

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Recommended website

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If you like pictures of all kinds of birds, I can recommend the website of Danny Roels, editor of AOB Belgium. The site is written

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Samples for myostatin study

26/10/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics Leave a comment

Many of you may know the “long feathered” or “standard” type Agapornis roseicollis. These birds are larger than the “normal” A. roseicollis and are highly

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