Blue Series / Green Series
Banded Australian Dominant Pieds
Blue Series / Green Series
Banded Australian Dominant Pieds
There are three types of Australian pieds.
These characteristics stay true to all three:
Legs:
pink or grey or combination of both
Eyes:
Dark with white iris rings
Cere:
dark blue in mature males
Eyes:
Varies between almost normal and orange
Tail:
Depends on color
Cheek patches:
Dark Blue-Purple (may be splotched with white)
Regularly spaced, black, wavy design on wings,
back of the head and the upper back.
Clear forehead and clear spot on back of head.
(not as bright as Danish pied)
Clearflighted
Wing Markings - Clear flights, Normal elsewhere, Grouped markings, Grizzled is uncommon.
Body Markings - preferably none.
Variegated
Wing Markings- Both Normal and Clear, Usually scattered markings, Grizzled is uncommon.
Body markings - scattered patches.
Banded
Wing markings- like either of the other two types (preferably clearflighted).
Body markings- ideally a single 12mm band across chest. (See above pictures)
Double Factor Dominant Pieds
They are birds that, when mated to non-Pieds, produce only Pieds.
It has been found that double factor Pieds have very few markings and very little body colour.
The cere of cocks also tends to be very similar to the flesh coloured ones of Danish Recessive Pieds.
Grizzled wing markings are uncommon.
Markings are usually restricted to the back of the head.
Body color restricted to the area between the primary wing feathers.
Female Double Factor Dominant pied