Budgerigar color
Grey
An even grey. In horses the greying gene's colour, which whitens with age (see the greying pattern); the wild colour of cockatiels and African grey parrots; the grey to near-black eggs Cayuga ducks lay early in the season.
17 Budgerigar breeds list Grey. It is in a club standard for 17 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Grey
| Breed | WBO | ABS | COM | BS UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budgerigar | Standard (“Grey; Spangle; Dominant Pied; Clearflight; Dutch Pied; Recessive Pied; Opaline; Cinnamon; Opaline Cinnamon; Yellow-wing; Whitewing; Melanistic Spangle”) | Standard (“Grey; Spangle; Australian Pieds; Clearflight; Recessive Pied; Light Green Opaline; Light Green Cinnamon; Clearwing; Melanistic Spangle; Yellow Face”) | Standard (“Grey; Spangles (single factor); Dominant Pied (inc. Continental and Clearflights); Recessive Pied; Opaline; Cinnamon; Opaline Cinnamon”) | Standard (“GREY; SPANGLE - in all shades & varieties; PIED (Dominant); PIED (Clearflighted); PIED (Dutch); PIED (Recessive)”) |
| BudgerigarSpangle | Standard (“Spangle”) | Standard (“Spangle”) | Standard (“Spangles (single factor)”) | Standard (“SPANGLE - in all shades & varieties”) |
| BudgerigarPied | Standard (“Dominant Pied; Clearflight; Dutch Pied; Recessive Pied”) | Standard (“Australian Pieds; Clearflight; Recessive Pied”) | Standard (“Dominant Pied (inc. Continental and Clearflights); Recessive Pied”) | Standard (“PIED (Dominant); PIED (Clearflighted); PIED (Dutch); PIED (Recessive)”) |
| BudgerigarGrey | Standard (“Grey”) | Standard (“Grey”) | Standard (“Grey”) | Standard (“GREY”) |
| BudgerigarOpaline | Standard (“Opaline”) | Standard (“Light Green Opaline”) | Standard (“Opaline”) | Standard (“OPALINE - Light, Dark, Olive, Grey Green; OPALINE - Skyblue, Cobalt, Mauve, Violet, Grey”) |
| BudgerigarCinnamon | Standard (“Cinnamon”) | Standard (“Light Green Cinnamon”) | Standard (“Cinnamon”) | Standard (“CINNAMON - Light, Dark, Olive, Grey Green; CINNAMON - Skyblue, Cobalt, Mauve, Violet & Grey”) |
| BudgerigarOpaline Cinnamon | Standard (“Opaline Cinnamon”) | No ruling | Standard (“Opaline Cinnamon”) | Standard (“OPALINE CINNAMON - Light, Dark, Olive, Grey Green; OPALINE CINNAMON - Skyblue, Cobalt, Mauve, Violet, Grey”) |
| BudgerigarClearwing | Standard (“Yellow-wing; Whitewing”) | Standard (“Clearwing”) | Standard (“All Yellowing; All Whitewing”) | Standard (“CLEARWINGS - Whitewings & Yellow-wings”) |
| BudgerigarMelanistic Spangle | Standard (“Melanistic Spangle”) | Standard (“Melanistic Spangle”) | Standard (“Simple factor Melanistic Spangles”) | No ruling |
| BudgerigarYellowface | Standard (“Yellowface (Mutant 1); Yellowface (Mutant 2) Double Factor & Goldenface Double Factor”) | Standard (“Yellow Face”) | Standard (“All the Yellowface Blue series Normals”) | Standard (“YELLOWFACE - Mutant 1, Mutant 2 and GOLDENFACE - all varieties Blue Series”) |
| BudgerigarRainbow | Standard (“Rainbow”) | Standard (“Rainbow”) | No ruling | Standard (“RAINBOW - Opaline Whitewing Yellowface & Goldenface”) |
| BudgerigarWhite | Standard (“White (suffused); Grey White”) | Standard (“White”) | Standard (“All Dilutes of the Blue series (Whites, inc. Yellowfaces)”) | Standard (“WHITE (dilute); GREY WHITE”) |
| BudgerigarGreywing | Standard (“Greywing”) | Standard (“Greywing”) | Standard (“All Greywings of the Green series; All Greywings of the Blue series (inc. Yellowfaces)”) | Standard (“GREYWING”) |
| BudgerigarFallow | Standard (“Fallow”) | Standard (“Fallow”) | Standard (“All English Fallows green series; All English Fallows blue series; All German Fallows green series; All German Fallows blue series”) | Standard (“FALLOW”) |
| BudgerigarSaddleback | Standard (“Saddleback”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“SADDLEBACK in all shades”) |
| BudgerigarBlackface | Standard (“Blackface”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| BudgerigarBlackwing | Standard (“Blackwing”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |