MelissaLouelly
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- Jan 15, 2011
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Has anybody else had a Cockatiel with a darker nail? It's only one at the back.
A standard-colored cockatiel will have all gray nails and (after first molt) a gray beak. Many of the color mutations cause pink nails and for the "juvenile" pink beak to be retained into adulthood.
Pied is a color mutation that causes white spots or splotches in places where a standard cockatiel is solid gray. Cockatiels with a pied mutation can have some nails pink and some nails gray.
That's all if I remember correctly... it's been a few years since I did my reading on color mutations.