Cinnamon Cockatiel

The cinnamon cockatiel is also known as the Cinnamon Tiel or Isabelle cockatiel. They are also among the sex-recessive mutations. They lack the cool gray color that is found in a regular grey cockatiel and in a lot of other mutations. The tenderness that is brought by the cinnamon coloring is improved more with the yellow color in their tail and head. The color of the cinnamon’s plumage can vary from a balmy tannish-gray towards a chocolate brown.

There are other beautiful variations of the cinnamon cockatiel and that include the cinnamon pied cockatiel and the cinnamon pearl cockatiel. The cockatiels are among the most popular in the family of parrots with the Budgerigar as their top competitor. The Budgerigar is referred to as the parakeet in the United States. Cockatiels are resilient pets, easily breed and can easily handle change in their cage or home. And best of all, keeping a cockatiel as a home pet is also easy as they are not that noisy and they are also comfortable even when they are left alone for long.

Cockatiels, including the cinnamon cockatiel, are considered parrots mainly because of the shape of their beaks. They are members of the cockatoo family that is obvious by their small erectile head crests. But not like the cockatoos, cockatiels have long tails that make up about half of their overall length and giving them more of a parakeet kind of look.

The cinnamon cockatiel feeds on sprouts, nuts, vegetable, fruits, seeds and commercial pellets. They also require a roomy cage where they can spend more time to play and fly about. Cockatiels have evolved into nomadic creatures, surviving different rugged and diverse habitations. They constantly move, change locations with the cyclic fluctuations of water and food supplies. This native habitat and their adaptive manner made them suitable as pets.

The unique erectile crest of the cinnamon cockatiel and other breeds is held erect when they are excited and stimulated but is flattened when they feel defensive, angry and submissive. It is somewhere in between when they cinnamons are in their normal ‘hanging out’ state. Unlike other members of the parrot family, they have long tails that make up around half of their full length and give their parakeet attribute.

Like the lutinos, the cinnamon cockatiel is a mutation. The gene affects the melanin pigment and stops the brown pigment into changing to gray or black. The amount of pigment is not changed, only the coloring. The remaining brown pigment extends to the beak, eyes, legs, feet and the feathers. The presence of yellow in the feathers in their chest is seen in both the male and female cinnamon cockatiels.