#bananaquit

[vintagewildlife]

Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) By: Colin Vince From: Keeping Softbilled Birds 1980

[jadewolf-photography]

Bananaquit

Coereba flaveola Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

[kiskutnya]

funny birds

[egg24108]

how am i supposed to take you seriously when you’re the size of a small handful of dirt and called a bananaquit

[necrofauna]

[paulpingminho]

[zoologica42]

you would not believe your tits if 500 bananaquits-

see ebird checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S36881163 full size image under the cut:

[amber-tortoiseshell]

MC1R - Melanocortin 1 Receptor

Part I. (reptiles and birds)

Part II.

This gene encodes the receptor protein for melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH). The encoded protein, a seven pass transmembrane G protein coupled receptor, controls melanogenesis. Gene mutations that lead to a loss in function are associated with increased pheomelanin (red pigment) production, which leads to lighter skin and hair color.

Ball python

clown

Inheritence: recessive.

wild type and clown

Lesser earless lizard

bleached

Inheritence: unknown.

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Little striped whiptail

bleached

Inheritence: recessive.

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Southwestern Fence Lizard

bleached

Inheritence: dominant.

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Sagus Kul lizard

dark/light (two difference populations)

Inheritence: unknown.

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Chicken

extended black (three mutations)

barring (fayoumi)

partridge/brown/buttercup

wheaten

Inheritence: honestly i'm lost. It's complicated, probably mostly intermediate and often epistatic with other genes. Also birchen exists too, they just haven't found the mutation yet, i think? Or it's the same as barring?

extended black, barred (on silver), partridge, wheaten (wild type is like partridge but lighter chests)

Helmeted guinea fowl

melanic

Inheritence: recessive.

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Japanese quail

extended brown

Inheritence: intermediate.

tibetan (EB/EB), rosetta (EB/eb)

Chinese painted quail

blue face

red breast

Inheritence: blue face is intermediate with the wild type, red breast is recessive.

blue face (maybe heterozygous?), red breasted with wild type

Turkey

dominant black

black-winged bronze

Inheritence: order of dominance is dominant black > wild type (bronze) > back-winged bronze.

black, bronze, black-winged bronze

Lesser snow goose

blue

Inheritence: additive.

white, intermediate, blue

Red-footed booby

brown

Inheritence: additive.

white, intermediate, brown

Arctic skua

dark

Inheritence: intermediate.

light, intermediate, dark

Ruff

white ornamental feathers on satellite males

Inheritence: lethal dominant (as part of a chromosomal inversion).

feader, satellite and independent

Eleonora's falcon

extended black

Inheritence: dominant.

black, pale (wild type)

Gyrfalcon

white

Inheritence: intermediate.

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Barn owl

rufous

Inheritence: intermediate.

rufous and white

Bananaquit

melanic

Inheritence: dominant.

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Chestnut-bellied monarch

melanic

Inheritence: intermediate.

wild type and melanic, phenotype variations