John Scoble, ein international anerkannter Wellensittichzüchter und Buchautor, schreibt in seinem 1981 erschienenen Buch "The Complete Budgerigar" über das Auftreten roter Wellensittiche nach 1945 in Australien:
Budgerigars with obvious pink and red colouring have appeared on two separate occasions in Australia since 1945. Both cases were authentically recognized as true colouring and were used in breeding.
In the outer suburb of Melbourne, Mr Ron Jones bred about a dozen birds with decidedly pink colouring. The colouring was evident on the top of the head of sky blues and cobalts.
An official from ther Budgerigar Council of Victoria advised Mr Jones on how to pair the birds in order to improve the pink colouring, and on hios next visit the official was able to report that the numbers had increased to twenty, and on some the colouring had improved to a brick red.
About this time there appeared a newspaper stories about black and pink budgerigars being bred. These stories were accompanied by photographs and it appeared the birds had been dyed. Mr Jones rang a Melbourne newspaper to advise them that he had been the first to breed pink budgerigars and, a story was printed which, unfortunately, the bird's existence and whereabouts were disclosed. Soon after this, Mr Jones stayed away from his residence overnight, leaving it unattended. On his return the next day he found all the birds had been stolen and that even the eggs that were incubating were squashed in the nest. Police found no trace of the birds and there has been no known re-occurrence of any such birds
The second discovery was made by the late Sid French while walking in a Sydney suburb. He noticed an albino with a large red spot on it's head. The bird was a pet in a small cage and he approached the owners who, after a short conversation revealed that they had bred the bird themselves in a small colony aviary.
They gave him the bird and the supposed parents, a Blue/Albino cock and an Albino hen. He paired these birds and many other pairings later with the red spot Albino. None of the progeny showed any indication of red colouring. One morning in disgust Sid took the red-spotted Albino outside and threw it in the air. He never saw it again and concluded that it was only a sport and would never reproduce the visual red pigment.
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