The under-reported pictures show a female Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis) bred in my aviaries at the end of breeding season 2018.
This bird was born with male feathers: blue feathers on the breast and red-feathers near the cloacal region what normally only are present on males birds.
This female never produced any egg.
The pictures ware taken on January 29th, 2019.
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February 11th, 2021: the same bird, practically one year after the first photo-shoot.
You can see that on those new pictures that the abnormal colouration is still present!
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Still the same bird but pictured in the hand and with another background.
The colouration of the breast feathers is more visible this way.
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