Budgerigar color
Black
Solid black pigment. In birds often with a green or purple sheen; on skin, legs, beak, comb and tongue the dark pigment some standards call for.
19 Budgerigar breeds list Black. It is in a club standard for 19 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Black
| Breed | WBO | ABS | COM | BS UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| budgerigar | Standard (“Skyblue (Light Blue); Cobalt (Dark Blue); Light Green; Spangle; Dominant Pied; Clearflight; Dutch Pied; Recessive Pied; Dark Green; Olive Green”) | Standard (“Sky; Cobalt; Light Green; Spangle; Australian Pieds; Clearflight; Recessive Pied; Dark Green; Olive Green; Grey Green; Mauve; Violet; Grey”) | Standard (“Normal Skyblue; Cobalt; Normal Light green; Spangles (single factor); Dominant Pied (inc. Continental and Clearflights); Recessive Pied; Dark green”) | Standard (“SKYBLUE; COBALT; LIGHT GREEN; SPANGLE - in all shades & varieties; PIED (Dominant); PIED (Clearflighted); PIED (Dutch); PIED (Recessive); DARK GREEN”) |
| budgerigarSky Blue | Standard (“Skyblue (Light Blue)”) | Standard (“Sky”) | Standard (“Normal Skyblue”) | Standard (“SKYBLUE”) |
| budgerigarCobalt | Standard (“Cobalt (Dark Blue)”) | Standard (“Cobalt”) | Standard (“Cobalt”) | Standard (“COBALT”) |
| budgerigarGreen | Standard (“Light Green”) | Standard (“Light Green”) | Standard (“Normal Light green”) | Standard (“LIGHT GREEN”) |
| 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)”) |
| budgerigarDark Green | Standard (“Dark Green”) | Standard (“Dark Green”) | Standard (“Dark green”) | Standard (“DARK GREEN”) |
| budgerigarOlive | Standard (“Olive Green”) | Standard (“Olive Green”) | Standard (“Olive”) | Standard (“OLIVE GREEN”) |
| budgerigarGray Green | Standard (“Grey Green”) | Standard (“Grey Green”) | Standard (“Grey green”) | Standard (“GREY GREEN”) |
| budgerigarMauve | Standard (“Mauve”) | Standard (“Mauve”) | Standard (“Mauve”) | Standard (“MAUVE”) |
| budgerigarViolet | Standard (“Violet”) | Standard (“Violet”) | Standard (“Violet”) | Standard (“VIOLET”) |
| budgerigarGray | 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”) |
| budgerigarMelanistic Spangle | Standard (“Melanistic Spangle”) | Standard (“Melanistic Spangle”) | Standard (“Simple factor Melanistic Spangles”) | No ruling |
| budgerigarAnthracite | Standard (“Anthracite (Blue Series)”) | Standard (“Anthracite”) | Standard (“Anthracite”) | No ruling |
| 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 |
| budgerigarEyes | Standard (“black with a white iris; dark without a light iris ring”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Eyes: black with a white iris.; Eyes: dark without an iris ring.”) |
Color changes
How Black can appear or change over an animal's life.
Blackchanges toPearl
Eyes · With age
Redchanges toBlack
Eyes · With age · from 0 to 1 weeks