What is "Spangle"?

[Solace.]

I'm asking this because when Sue was here yesterday she said Malibu is Spangle, and she was the only one.

So I wanna get down to the bottom of this and know what it is, I completely forgot to ask her what exactly it is.

[xxxSpikexxx]

Is it her mutation or pattern on her back that makes her a spangle? Iam not sure all I know is she is a very pretty girl :)

[kimmikefids]

spangle is like the opposite of pearl...its a diluted white/yellow edging to the feathers

[Solace.]

But she doesn't have any yellow on what so ever. :hmm:

White she obviously does, but I can not see any yellow on her. She told me she was the only Spangle/Pearl in the clutch.. I was like "Oh really.."

[kimmikefids]

oh not necessarily yellow...it depends on the mutation.....i dont think mali is spangle....she just looks pearl.....it would mean on her pearls...where its brown it would be white and white it would be brown.....and the white kinda bleeds into the brown....so its a diluted edge to the feather colours....if its a grey mutation the white would be yellow...

[kimmikefids]

heres a site about spangles

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~geoffwatts1/Silver_Spangle_Cockatiels.html

[tielfan]

I've heard of the spangle mutation for budgies but I didn't know there was a spangle mutation for cockatiels too! The birds on that website are very pretty and it seems strange that there hasn't been more interest in the mutation.

[sweetrsue]

Spangle also goes by the name Edged Dilute. I found a picture on-line.
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[Solace.]

Interesting.

I don't know why she said she's spangle if she's not then. She reckons she is.

[kimmikefids]

lol maybe she is confused by what spangle is??admittedly i think Mali has a very unique pearling design....maybe thats what made her think it was spangle because her pearling seems kinda opposite to normal pearling...brown where the white normally is and white where the brown normally is