Bluefronted Melanistic Rainbow



The bluefronted Rainbow is one of the rarer mutations of the last 20 years. This mutation is much like the melanistic black Stella lory, is recessive in its genetic make up and has the capability to hide colours. What we end up with is a Rainbow lorikeet without the colours red and yellow and just with green and blue, it is a stunning bird in itself. As we know green is made up of yellow and blue so we therefore know that it is hiding yellow, also some birds have a fusion of red showing through the feathers.

When this bird is bred to the cinnamon Rainbow, we hope to get a lilac fronted and a lilac cinnamon Rainbow. Not much work has been done yet in this area but as more spare birds become available it will speed things up. At the best we may see some results in two to three years time.

We are also working on a Red fronted melanistic bird, this bird will have the same characteristics as the blue fronted with the difference being that these birds will have bright red fronts. The extra red will assist to put more colour in the crossing over to other mutations, but retain black under wing colour and absences of the yellow.









A very small number of Aqua blue fronted melanistic birds have been bred and these birds are still very scarce. This again is a stunning bird to admire in the sun light and the colour is reminiscent of the Greek islands' sea colour. We hope to upload a page for this colour in 2007. For the time being we have the blue to admire. An Aqua blue in pic below.































Young Blue fronted about 9 weeks old. Next page.
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