interesting

[Mystics Mom]

 

[Mystics Mom]

another

 

[Pumpkin]

 

[sodakat]

Great find. There is another Jimmy vid too where he is on the floor messing around. I noticed this from Jimmy's owner:
Hi!! Sadly i sold Jimmy a while ago. I tried to keep him but they were just too loud in our small unit. It broke my heart! I have spoken to his new parents though and he has recently had two baby girls. Jimmy's feet were darker and he was all green as a baby. His feet went pale and he went yellow on his first molt. I'm told he looks the same today. He was just a gorgeous boy, such a beautiful nature.

 

[rikkitikki]

Do they know why Jimmy's feathers went yellow? I wonder what his environment was like? Diet, air quality, water, allergens, etc, etc?

 

[all4stvoyager]

How neat. Still the same ekkie face tho...just diff color

 

[evsrin]

I stumbled upon this- just googled yellow eclectus and the 1st link was about the infamous Jimmy

landofvos.com • View topic - Yellow Eclectus

This link was cited in that post
Land of Vos - Birds of a Different Feather - Main Page

Jimmy is very beautiful and unique.

 

[evsrin]

One more Jimmy thread
landofvos.com • View topic - Yellow feathers

Please forgive me if I'm not supposed to post threads from other placesI'm not sure I just stumbled upon it and it gives backstory so I thought it was relevant.

 

[itzmered]

I too went and looked up Yellow Eclectus and ran across this

Feathers Turning Yellow - Eclectus Parrots Community

A different concern has developed with the widespread use of pellets for parrots. It seems that colored pellets consumed by Eclectus parrots, both companion birds and breeding birds, may dramatically affect the ability of the Eclectus to grow normally colored feathers after they molt. This does not seem to occur with all Eclectus all the time; it seems to occur most often with vosmaeri females and to affect their red feathers. The vosmaeri females will consume the colored pellets, and when they molt, the new feathers (which should be red) are yellow or red with yellow stripes. If the bird eats a lot of colored pellets, even the beak may turn yellow. This condition has appeared in aviaries across the U.S. When the colored pellets are removed from the diet, the bird's new feathers (when they molt again) generally come in colored correctly.

 

[evsrin]

I too went and looked up Yellow Eclectus and ran across this

Feathers Turning Yellow - Eclectus Parrots Community

Jimmy's owner had a female too and said she never changed any colors. Of course they were on the same diet, so wouldn't that rule diet out? He saide he was feeding them all kinds of fresh foods. Apparently Jimmy was vet checked and it was never found out why he turned yellow?