I alway thought Schalie was just the Flemish word for Slate
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Opal is very common. M. & D. Evans and others wrongly called them mosaic with their Gaby Vandenabeeles.NeilA wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 9:02 am Then there was Dunn i remember the name as a kid and Opal was another
Don’t really see them now

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Mosaic is two defined colours is it Kingking wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 1:26 pmOpal is very common. M. & D. Evans and others wrongly called them mosaic with their Gaby Vandenabeeles.NeilA wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 9:02 am Then there was Dunn i remember the name as a kid and Opal was another
Don’t really see them now
create photo album online
That’s a good point as the word does appear more on Flemish birdsSteve Howells wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 12:56 pmI alway thought Schalie was just the Flemish word for Slate![]()
schalie Bange is one i remember from years back
Yes Neil and these are very rare. I've only seen 3 true Mosaics in the flesh in over 50 years. And too answer the other question, Dun is Dilute blue in combination with spread is correctly called a dun.NeilA wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 1:28 pmMosaic is two defined colours is it Kingking wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 1:26 pmOpal is very common. M. & D. Evans and others wrongly called them mosaic with their Gaby Vandenabeeles.NeilA wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 9:02 am Then there was Dunn i remember the name as a kid and Opal was another
Don’t really see them now
create photo album online

It’s a sport, very unusual and rare, the late Cresswell Bros had one called Union Jack for obvious reasonsNeilA wrote: Tue Oct 21, 2025 1:40 pm Cheers King
I have seen only one with a red cheq one side and blue cheq the others the rest was like a normal red one
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In germany we only the word schalie instead of slate. The first time i heard about slate was last year when i had a Schalie/slate in my nest whilst george was over and told me the color is called slate. So atleast for us germans usually we just call it schalie i guess.

