Hello:) I have two cockatiels, one of them (Charlie) is about a year old, and we've had him since Christmas. Before, he was always yellow and white and had beautiful yellow spots on his wings. But now I've noticed that his beautiful feathers are turning gray! He's also moulting, and I once heard that they can change color during the moult, but I don't know if that's true.
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Hi.
Yeah, that’s normal.
Your Charlie was still in the young man’s case.
Young cocks first look like hens, gray with yellow beads on the wing bottoms and with yellow gray fishbone patterns on the tail bottom.
During the mouse, they lose the bead pattern and get pure slanted feathers without any grain. Only the head becomes strong yellow. The tail feathers are usually cleaned as the last. With us a cock had kept the patterned feathers up to a year.
All in the green area.
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When he gets old.
Yes, of course, that can happen. This will probably be the right adult plumage now. Have you ever heard of cocks of various bird species? They are so colourful only in the balm period (also known as a splendour dress), otherwise they wear the so-called dress.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saisondimorphism
Although it does not occur in all birds, it is a good example to show that such color changes are quite possible and not unusual.