AGASSCOM Release Date: July 2017

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AGASSCOM – Agapornis Show Standards Center of Ornithological Management
[ Centro Confederativo Ornitológico Mundial de Agapornis ]

Official Color Standards

GREEN ( AGAPORNIS ROSEICOLLIS )
Group 1
Standard AGSC-WAC 01

( This photograph does not necessarily represent an ideal representative of the species. )

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REVISED BY: Dr. Alessandro D´Angieri – 2017

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Angola - Africa
OFFICIAL VALID STANDARD PUBLICATION DATE: 1997

AGASSCOM-WAC NOMENCLATURE: Group 1 – Agapornis Roseicollis

Color: wild standard green (ancestral)

GREEN
(wild ancestral standard)

1 – Mask and Head

Forehead and face should be a pinkish red with neither white nor orange suffusions. The
forehead must be limited by a continuous (unbroken) straight line.
2 – Chest Collar and Upper Breast
Must be the same as the color of the forehead, but a little paler, spreading towards the
upper breast.
3 – Color
Bright light green even color. Abundant presence of melanin and psittacine. Feet and claws
are dark gray, strong and well positioned on its perch. White (light pink) bill and dark
brown iris.
4 – Rump
Blue
5 – Plumage
Neat, flawless, with no missing feathers.
6 – Conformation
Strong and robust, bill well tucked in on an ample forehead, eyes well centered, full and
wide neck, straight symmetrical back and shoulders.
7 – Poise
Elegant stance, good health, straight and strong, firmly gripping the perch with
symmetrical and uncrossed wings.
8 – Size
Large. From 16 to 18 cm
9 – Deportment
Calm and quite, with an erect posture on its perch.

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SIZE
16 to 18 cm
It is highly undesirable that the specimen should exceed these measurements in
minus or plus 1.5 cm.
Birds of less than 14 cm tall must be disqualified.
PENALTIES
Any deviations from these standards guidelines must be considered a fault to be
punished in the form of score losses to the exact proportion of its severity as well as
their effects on the bird’s health and well-being.
DISQUALIFYING DEVIATIONS
Aggressiveness or excessive shyness.
Every bird that exhibits any sign of physical anomaly such as bone structure
deformities, an asymmetric structure, absence of claws or regarding its behavior as
indicated above, must lose score or be altogether disqualified.

ANATOMICAL ASPECTS