Interesting article: black galah!

[Betrisher]

I hope the link works! This turned up on our Zoology Society newsfeed today. I thought I'd post it as an item of interest.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06...j8N--TOOauVGd0TGa_X5c40gJrKrsnaqPGVT9HouRGIUM

 

[MonicaMc]

It's soot.... from a burnt tree.... not a mutation. In short, just nesting in a burnt hollow.

Here's one from at least 13 years ago?

Mutant Galah 4

 

[Betrisher]

LOL! Clearly the bird has nested alone, then, since no others are suffering from the same condition.

 

[Scott]

Nice article and pics!!

 

[MonicaMc]

Found another! This one you can clearly see that the feathers don't appear 'normal'. The other pictures you can't really see well enough to tell for sure about the feathers...


https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=975374279228308&id=682512321847840

 

[Betrisher]

Well, it seems the university boffins think it's a melanistic bird and it has been followed and studied for some years. The presence of melanin in the skin doesn't necessarily preclude the continued presence of other colour pigments.

 

[Noahs_Birds]

It is melanistic, not from soot
A great mate of mine bred a melanistic galah 2 years ago and looked exactly like that one

 

[LaManuka]

Oooh Noah, how intriguing! Could you possibly post a pic??

 

[Noahs_Birds]

Oooh Noah, how intriguing! Could you possibly post a pic??

I would post a photo.......but he's one of those 'Really private' breeders that are strictly no photos sorry (and I can't blame him for that, he has a lot of rarer species and has had attempted robberies a couple times)
I went to his place for an aviary tour, and looked into one aviary and here it was in all its glory (he didn't want to acknowledge it was there, so I had to pry it out of him to tell me a bit about it).

He also had a number of Blue and Lutino mutation Galahs as well

 

[LaManuka]

You know I thought you'd say something like that Noah. But you can't blame a girl for trying!

 

[Noahs_Birds]

You know I thought you'd say something like that Noah. But you can't blame a girl for trying!

Yeah, its a shame when those really private breeders usually have such tight restrictions on who visits them and what they make public.....but ah well if he displays it in one of the magazines I know who to send the pic to!

 

[Amsterdam]

This is stunning!

 

[MonicaMc]

I, too, would love to see a melanistic bird from a breeder! Would be great to compare *that* bird to one of the wild ones!