Yellow spot on head

[RATTIE]

My new bird is a full-body-color greywing but it has a clear spot on the back of it's head. Dose this meen any thing? Thanks

[Tia]

It means he is also a Dominant Pied. It's hard to be sure without a picture, but you can have a look here to look for yourself: http://www.budgieplace.com/c_dompied.html

Hope this helps.
Tia

[RATTIE]

Thanks, the olny unnormal clear spot is the one on the back of his head so he is not a dominant pied.

[Jessika]

I read somewhere that having that thumbprint on that back of the head when no other characteristics of dom. pied were apparent, that means you have a bird that is split to pied.

[DeBree420]

if he was a cockatiel he would be split to pied, meaning he has one pied gene and one normal gene, and only having two pied genes would make him properly visually pied...
in a budgie however, only one pied gene results in a normal visual dominant pied and two pied genes result in a 'double factor' dominant pied, which looks like a recessive(harlequin) pied, but with normal silver eyes....

you could just have a strain of dominant pied genes that wasnt culled by the 'breed standard' and therefore wont have the average pied pattern... or you could have an entirely new mutation... or it could have a defect preventing melanin from getting to that area...look at the toenails, a pied bird showing not much pied pattern can sometimes be identified by an odd coloured toenail...

as it is a greywing, which can be pretty light patterning anyway, it could just be the patterning is so light in that spot, you cant see it...

how old is the bird... it could be one of these...
Mottled Budgies (http://www.budgieplace.com/c_mottled.html)
i doubt it though as they are very rare!

[RATTIE]

Thanks, the bird is over two years. The last bird I got had that spot too.

[Mikey666]

:budgie: :D How can I get my keets to breed?When do you think is the best time of year?

[keet_tweet4]

A head spot means dominant pied.

[RATTIE]

Thanks. . .

[DeBree420]

wow i have found out that a small head spot (not large like a dom pied)with no other pied markings can mean 'split' (single factor) recessive pied...
recessive pieds can be found in offspring with recessive pied ancestors in a cross between normals and 'split' recessive pieds and some are bred with a small headspot suggesting they are split for recessive pied.
i have known this to be true in cockatiel pied genetics, but i thought the recessive pied of budgies was so recessive that it shown no traits in a split form, but it turns out that this is not always the case..

[RATTIE]

Thanks . .

[ravengypsy]

The head spot depends on the size. If he is otherwise completely normal in color/markings except for a small spot on the back of the head (about 3 feathers) then it mean's he's split for recessive pied. If it's a large head spot then he's a dominant pied but this is usually acompanied with patches of color on the body and or wings. Some spangles also have a medium sized patch on the back of the head but are also accompanied with spangled wing markings.

[Mikey666]

I think I might have a green recessive pied sex unknown but marking spot on the back of the head for sure.Normal grey green for sure but I will let u know what sex later

[RATTIE]

Ok so he's split for recessive pied. Thanks.