Green cheek coloring?

[daddylongnails]

Having adopted my first green cheek conure one month ago, I'm pretty new to them. He's a standard gcc, no mutation. I have seen other standard gcc with red bellies. He is about 1 year old now and only has a tiny patch of red on his belly. Do some gcc's just have more red than others? Or will his color brighten up as he gets older?

 

[aufde]

My GCC is 1 year old too and has more red than I've seen on some GCC's. I know they're diet determines how healthy and bright they're feathers are, but not sure about the color pattern. Molting will also change the coloring a bit, not sure how much or how so with GCC specifically. Someone else can probably help with the color change during molting.

I do think a lot of it is just the specific bird, like any other animal with patterned fur/feathers, each one is going to be different.

 

[cdog]

I breed gccs and that is how I tell the babies apart, they all have different amounts of red. It's the same as them having different personalities, they all have different amounts of colors.

 

[amysaviary]

Every bird is different just like we r. People think they all look alike but they r different in their own way. I can tell all my babies apart because they r all different, some have more yellow some more red and so on.

 

[Rio Mom]

Yep, some have more red than others. On another forum I belong to, there was actually a thread where people were all posting their GCC bellies to see all the varrying reds.