Selective breeding is the process of breeding animals or plants with specific traits in order to produce offspring with those same traits. In the case of Indian ring-necked parakeets, humans have selectively bred them for centuries to produce a wide variety of colors, including blue, green, yellow, and pied.
Wild Indian ring-necked parakeets are typically green with a black ring around their necks. Domesticated parakeets come in a variety of colors, including blue, green, yellow, and pied.
The difference in color between wild and domesticated Indian ring-necked parakeets is due to the fact that domesticated birds have been selectively bred for specific colors.
* This process of selective breeding has resulted in a wide variety of color mutations, which are changes in the genes that control the production of melanin.
* Melanin is the pigment that gives birds their color, so by altering the amount and type of melanin produced, breeders have been able to create parakeets with a variety of different colors.