White cuckoocolumbian

Color and pattern male

Head: white.

Neck: each feather of the hackle has a medium-wide, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern shaft stripe, surrounded by a narrow, silver-white lace, which runs around the feather-tip; front of the neck white.

Back and saddle feathers: upper plumage white, between the shoulders below the neck-hackle black and white; saddle-hackle white.

Tail: steering-feathers slightly clouded alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern; support-feathers slightly clouded, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern, with white edging; sickles and slightly clouded, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-like ; small-coverts slightly clouded, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern, with narrow silvery-white lacing.

Wings: bow white, may be cloudy with alternating dark and light gray cuckoo pattern ; shoulder arch and wing-bar white.

Primary-flights: slightly cloudy with alternating dark and light gray cuckoo pattern with a white lace on the outside of the outer- vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane slightly cloudy with alternating dark and light gray cuckoo pattern with a white lace that runs around the feather tip;

outer-vane white, so that when the wing is closed it is completely white.

Breast, belly, body and thighs: white.

Down: white.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. White in the sickles. Pattern in the saddle-hackle. Strong presence of black in the parts that should be white on the surface, such as the wing-coverts, breast, body and thighs. Broken shaft stripe pattern. Strong yellow tint in the ornamental feathers.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail support-feathers and the wing-flights. The presence of entirely black or partially black feather areas instead of the cuckoo pattern.

Color and pattern female

Head: white.

Neck: hackle, starting approximately at the transition of neck and head, has a medium-wide, alternating dark and light grey cuckoo-shaped shaft stripe pattern, completely surrounded by a narrow, silver-white lace; feathers on the front of the neck white.

Shoulders: white.

Back: white, between the shoulders below the neck-hackle black and white.

Tail: steering-feathers slightly cloudy, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern, except for the top two feathers, which are faintly white-laced; coverts slightly cloudy, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-like with narrow white lace.

Wings: bow and coverts white.

Primary-flights: slightly cloudy, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern with white lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane slightly cloudy, alternating dark and light gray, cuckoo-pattern, whith a white lace that runs around the feather tip; outer-vane white, so that when the wing is closed it is completely white.

Breast, belly, thighs and rear-part: white

Down: from white to light blue-grey.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. Broad and indistinct white lace tail-coverts. Strong presence of pattern in the areas that should be white on the surface, such as the wing-coverts, breast and the body. Broken shaft stripe pattern.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail support-feathers and the wing-flights. The presence of entirely black or partially black feather areas instead of the cuckoo pattern.

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