We had a customer bring two "Quakers" into the store last week. They were sold as "DYH Amazons," which they knew they weren't, but the customers purchased them because they were unique. Initially, we thought they might have been green quakers, and someone had bleached the head. I can't tell you how angry it makes me when someone does that to a small bird and tries to pass it off as a mini version of a larger parrot. Luckily, they had not been bleached. They are Quakers, but they look a little different, too. Does anyone have experience with Cliff Parakeets? They look just different enough that I'm wondering if they might be Cliff parakeets and not true Quakers, or maybe hybrids. There are two in the picture, but the other is hiding in the back. Aside from a little difference in the yellow on the yead, they are almost identical. The head seems a little smaller than that of other Quakers, though these birds were said to be only a few months old, so it may just be their juvenile size. I've seen Quakers with all sorts of color variations, but not like this. This could just be a young green Quaker with a yellow head, but someone suggested it might be a Cliff Parakeet, and I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with them.
