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[Rema]

Hey

My three-year-old bird started to have green spots (as shown in the picture). Does anyone know what causes this?

 

[Anfsurfer]

Looks like psitticin.

Do you have a pic of your entire bird? I need to see the species and it's mutation.

 

[Shezbug]

Looks like psitticin.

Do you have a pic of your entire bird? I need to see the species and it's mutation.

What is Psitticin?

I can't find anything under that spelling and when I did a search as it just keeps correcting it to Psittacine and brings up PBFD pics.


Edit: I believe it is a lovebird going by looking at what is available and given it is in lovebird lane I am even more inclined to think it def is a lovie.

 

[Zara]

I agree with Tim.
Some of my Turquoise lovebirds also gained green/yellow spots at a few years old instead of during the first moult.

What is Psitticin?

In short, it is what creates the yellow and red colours. Eumelanin creates the blue.
Wild type lovebirds have both and therefore look green with red faces.
My Sydney has a mutation that has a very large reduction of eumelanin so he looks yellow. And my oher birds have reductions of psittacin so they look blue with white faces (and some have eumelanin reduction on top of that)

 

[Zara]

Some of my Turquoise lovebirds also gained green/yellow spots at a few years old instead of during the first moult.

To be more specific, one just got green spots in this current, ongoing moult on both wings and they just turned 3 at the beginning of this month.

 

[Shezbug]

I agree with Tim.
Some of my Turquoise lovebirds also gained green/yellow spots at a few years old instead of during the first moult.


In short, it is what creates the yellow and red colours. Eumelanin creates the blue.
Wild type lovebirds have both and therefore look green with red faces.
My Sydney has a mutation that has a very large reduction of eumelanin so he looks yellow. And my oher birds have reductions of psittacin so they look blue with white faces (and some have eumelanin reduction on top of that)

Thanks.
None of my searches came up with anything about psitticin- nothing about mutations either - just kept offering alternatives to the word psitticin.

 

[Zara]

psitticin

That´s a typo. Psittacin may be a more fruitful search.

 

[Zara]

@Shezbug I just dug into my book and found this is also called Psittacofulvin

psittacofulvin - Google Search

www.google.com

lol and yes, I still didn´t fix my mouse

 

[Shezbug]

That´s a typo. Psittacin may be a more fruitful search.

I actually tried that too. I really didn’t get much suggested that wasn’t about psittacine diseases lol.

 

[Anfsurfer]

Psittacin is responsible for some of the coloring in Lovebirds feathers. It's responsible for the YELLOWS and REDS.
The Blue mutation is where a bird lacks pstittacin. So take a Green Fischer Lovebird for example. A Blue Fischer Lovebird has none of the red or yellow coloring anymore, just a Blue body and white face and nape. The body is Blue because the yellow coloring is removed from the green color.

I know the OP's bird is a Lovebird, I was inquiring which species or mutation. If it's an eyering lovebird, then the bird could be an actual Blue mutation and the spots could be something else. If it's a peachaced, then the Blue mutation doesn't exist and the spots would be caused by psittacin ramping up in the Turquoise body.

 

[Rema]

Looks like psitticin.

Do you have a pic of your entire bird? I need to see the species and it's mutation.

hello

To be more specific, one just got green spots in this current, ongoing moult on both wings and they just turned 3 at the beginning of this month.

same as my lovebird ,check the pictures, is it what you mean?

 

[Anfsurfer]

Your beautiful bird is a Peachfaced Lovebird. There is no genetic Blue mutation in Peachfaced like there is in Blackmasked and Fischer Lovebirds. The only colors that exist in Peachfaced lovebirds are Green and Parblue (Partial Blue). Over the years, breeders were able to breed the yellow out of Parblue birds to mimic the Blue mutation. Genetically the bird is still a Parblue, but it looks like a Blue. Unfortunately the bird is still what it is, and sometimes as the bird matures a limited amount of the yellowing substance will be produced and show in your birds feathers. This is about as simple as I can make this, so I hope you understand.