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Hi Marnix.
If it had red eyes it is probably a lutino. Lutino
is a sex linked recessive trait exhibited by birds - it is especially common in
cage budgerigars and is easily bred for, especially if one starts out with
a lutino male (all his female offspring will be lutino).
If it didn't have red eyes it wasn't a lutino - but
one of the other colour variations that can occur. I'm not well-up on cockatiel
colour mutations, but budgies have a dark-eyed (ie normal) yellow form as well
as the red-eyed lutino form.
Cheers,
Bruce Ramsay
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