I'm not sure it's worth the effort of contacting the site - it's an online
image distribution site that has nothing to do with birds. The bird is also
clearly an aviary hybrid with little or no link to Orange-bellied Parrots, with
the tagged reference not 'Orange-bellied Parrot', rather it is tagged 'orange',
with another tag 'bellied parrot'. (For example click on the tag 'bellied'
below and see what you get.)
As Michael points, it looks like a Turquoise Parrot hybrid to me, with
xanthochromism, where the colouration is unusually yellow through an excess of
yellow pigment, and/or a loss of darker pigments that allows yellow pigment to
be unusually dominant.
>From what I can gather (although I know nothing about aviary birds :-) this
>particularly mutation is known as a 'Yellow red-bellied Turquoise Parrot'. See
>a similar bird at
>http://www.zoochat.com/722/lutino-turquoisine-parrot-earnley-butterflies-birds-200348/.
Looking at this red-bellied mutation - they may have drawn the red out of the
underbelly through hybridization with Scarlet-chested Parrot, although the red
seems far too low. It seems more likely the red has been accentuated through
xanthochromism, highlighting the fact that red appears on the belly of most of
the neophema. For example have a look at this image of Elegant Parrot with an
orange belly, taken by Tony Crittenden in Cleland, SA:
http://www.aviceda.org/abid/search.php?action=searchresult&p=5&keyword=Elegant+Parrot
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
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Sent: Monday, 2 May 2011 1:02 PM
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Subject: OBP photo
Probably worth emailing the site and telling them before they sell it to too
many people
On 2 May 2011 12:53, Michael Ramsey <> wrote:
>
> Hi Debbie, OBP it isn't, looks to me like a male Turquoise Parrot, but
> an aviary bred bird, I think these birds are called lutino with yellow
> replacing green in the plumage.
> Someone with more knowledge of aviary birds would have more info than I do.
>
> Michael Ramsey
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> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] OBP photo
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> >
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.shutterstock.co.in/pic-13901902/stock-photo-orange-bellied-parrot.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoBDAAOABA_fP17QRIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=xMNjv_wboAA&usg=AFQjCNGJtIGc553bdxjbSQPwrGPUVZi1ugThisphoto
> is being touted as an OBP. Does anyone know what it is?
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