Cockatiel Mutation Guide (4,341 views)

[Casey]

Not in any particular order, but here is a quick general guide to cockatiel mutations. Mutations can be combined to create many beautiful mutations.

Thanks to everyone who let me use their photos to put this together!!


Normal Grey Male


Cinnamon Pearl Pied Pastelface


Whiteface Cinnamon Male


Pastelface Pied Male




Lutino Cinnamon Pied


Whiteface Cinnamon Heavy Pied


Normal Grey Female/Baby



Pearl Female


Pearl Male (note, visual pearl males must have the yellow mottling in the tail. Ghost pearls will show on both visual pearls and split pearls.)


Whiteface Female/Baby


Whiteface Male


Whiteface Pied


Lutino Female



Whiteface Pearl (Incomplete) Female


Incomplete Pearl Female


Cinnamon Pearl Male (during molt)


Cinnamon Pearl Male


Lutino Pearl Male


Whiteface Cinnamon Pied


Lutino Pearl Female


Whiteface Cinnamon Pearl Female


Whiteface Lutino




Still in progress, we are missing Silver, Fallow, Emerald, Yellowcheek, Whiteface Cinnamon Lutino....

For now, here are links to google images of these mutations


Whiteface Fallow
www.tieltreasures.com/Mutation/white%20face%20fallowCasper%201.JPG

Pastelface Silver
www.cockatiel.org.au/uploads/6/8/8/4/6884563/4370271.jpg?401

Emerald Cockatiel
members.optusnet.com.au/~petcockatiels/petcockatiel%20images/134636.JPG

Dominant Yellow Cheek Cinnamon Pearl Male
www.tieltreasures.com/Mutation/Dom%20Yellow%20Cheek%20Cinnamon%20Pearl%20Male%20Yellow.jpg

Sex-linked Yellow Cheek Cinnamon Pearl Pied Female
www.cockatiels.org/new-images/jensslycppdhen.jpg

Whiteface Cinnamon Lutino Pearl Female
members.optusnet.com.au/~geoffwatts/photogallery/Lucy..1yr%20old.JPG

Cinnamon Lutino Pearl Female
www.tieltreasures.com/Mutation/CinPearlLutino1.jpg



Note, all pearl mutations all look female before first molt. All mutations except pied and whiteface lutino look female before first molt. Pied and Whiteface Lutino may not be able to be visually sexed, and may require DNA testing to determine gender.

[Bailey :)]

Kirk has beige wing tips and back..he is either cinnamon or pearl, but we'll never know. I can provide pictures of that. Let me know.

[Casey]

i think he may be a cinnamon lutino thats what first popped into my mind when i saw him

[injood]

Beatiful cockatiel mutations

[Bailey :)]

Lutino pearl males get beige coloring when they lose their pearls. I didn't notice it until last month so I'm leaning toward him being a pearl pied..but then again he did have his wings clipped so if he was a cinnamon I wouldn't have seen it until his flights grew back. We would never know because Adrian wouldn't let me breed him even if I wanted to.

[injood]

Ooh really? I guess there is going to be along wait to ser that lol, i've never seen s lutino pearl male before but i've seen a female their pearls are gorgous

[Bailey :)]

Yeah, but with him being pied he may have had very few or they just might not have been noticeable.

[Casey]

i have him classed as a cinnamon regardless as he looks like one