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Yellow Sided Green Cheeks...the colorful ones!
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Yellow Sided Green Cheeks are a beautiful mutation of the Normal Green Cheek Conure. A man named Forshaw first spotted the Yellow Sided Green-cheek mutation in the wild and he thought it was a separate species. In early editions of the book, "Parrots of the World", Forshaw names them Pyrrhura hypoxantha or the Yellow-sided Conure. It wasn't until this mutation was imported with other Green Cheeks from the wild that it was determined not to be a separate species. The importation of Yellow Sided Green Cheeks occurred in the early 1980’s at a quarantine station in CA and ended up with Steve Garvin and Deanna Ferris. They began independently breeding these initial Yellow Sided conures to discover how the mutation was transmitted. It is my understanding that they did not even know for sure if it was a mutation or a sub-species at this time. It was all further complicated by the initial Yellow Sideds being females only. They had to line breed for several generations to produce male Yellow Sideds. Thus, it took them several years to produce a male Yellow Sided. It is fascinating to me how recent all of this is in our history!! They are in the Pyrrhura family (all Green Cheeks are) and are much more brightly colored than the Normal mutations. These are Yellow Sided Green Cheek sisters. They are from the same clutch, but note the difference in color.
These two pictures are the same babies!!! Yellow Sided Green Cheeks vary in the amounts of reds and yellows present. The youngest of this threesome has the most red. The one in the middle is the oldest and has the most yellow. She flew all the way to North Dakota to live with her family! The one on the right ended up pink-chested. She got some of her sister's yellow and some of the other one's red! In personality, all mutations of Green Conures are the same. The only difference in the mutations is color. As I demonstrated above, color in the mutations varies in slight degrees and not so slight degrees!!
www.fwa-aviary.com this is Ron Landis' website and he...by far...has the best explanation of the genetics of Green Cheek mutations! All pictures are photographed by Pampered Peeps and are copyrighted. They may not be copied without permission. |
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