| | | | | Photo Gallery | | | | | In the Lutino, all melanin (grey or brown coloration) is absent from lutino cockatiels' plumage, resulting in a white bird with the usual yellow face and orange cheek patch. Their eyes are red, and their beaks and feet are pink. The red eyes of the lutino can distinguish it from a "clear pied" (a pied bird that has no grey markings), which would have dark eyes. |
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Breeders be aware that combining lutino with cinnamon, one would expect a bird that looks like a lutino (since the absence of melanin should eliminate all cinnamon coloration), instead produces a lutino with a lavendar look to the flight feathers and tail -- the white feathers retain a tiny amount of melanin.
Cinnamon-Lutino is a sex-linked mutation; males can be split to lutino and cinnamon but females cannot. Cinnamon-Lutino is classified as AOV "Any other variety Lutino".
Cinnamon-Lutino was called "Lavendar Wing" years ago. Ed. | |
