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A year or two ago I saw a picture of a Blue mutated Elclectus parrot..

It's chest was white, Beak black, and the other feathers were blue.

Does anybody have any information on Eclectus' that are not green or red?

How on earth does a mutation like that occur?

Just curious..thanks!

That particular ekkie was a female mutation. I do know the one you are talking about & I can't remember what they called it but it had to do with what's fed to them. I don't agree with them doing this because basically they have to be on an incorrect diet for this to happen. You can also get (the most common) rainbow ekkies, also due to incorrect diet.

i'll see if I can find it again.

Here it is, called birds of a different feather. Can be caused by health problems & incorrect diets.

http://www.landofvos.com/strange/main.html

& a blue mutation male

http://www.mountainridgeaviary.com/

Thank you Kim! That is very interesting..I never knew diets can change the color of a bird's feathers. But is that only the case in Eclectus'? I know African Greys can get red feathers in other places besides their tail, But what about other species?

(not that I'm interested in changing my bird's feather colors, this is just particularly interesting to me)

Thanks!

Hi another thing about this question is it happen in nature.

In some birds it can be a gentetic thing but if these breeders are selling ALOT of them, I'd bet it isn't genetic & they are doing this on purpose. It isn't as common with genetics as it is with deliberately messing with there diets.