Gray: Genotype is original wild color. Brilliant-colored males, delicately penciled and laced camouflaged females. All of the varieties are derived from the Grays. They can be bred to any color variety with excellent results. Now a very rare color in Hookbills.
Bibbed Gray: Gray (wild-Mallard pattern) is the original color, but now is very rare in Hookbills, especially when sporting a White Bib.
Dusky: Drakes have pretty bluish-gray bodies and brilliant emerald green heads; females are dark cocoa-brown with delicate golden-brown lacing and penciling.
White Bibbed Dusky: Drakes have brilliant emerald green heads, pretty bluish-gray bodies and white on the chest, recessive bib.
Golden Dusky: Lovely soft hues and exceptionally rare, especially in males.
White Bibbed Golden Dusky: Lovely soft hues and one of the rarest colors of all.
Aleutian: Genotype is dusky and light. Bright rich colors; females are fawn with bold polka dot-like dark spotting. Bright colored males with modified wild pattern.
White-Bibbed Aleutian: Extremely rare. Aleutian color with distinctive White Bib.
Golden Aleutian: Extremely rare and pretty. Some males have extensive dark chestnut on chest and sides of body. Females have distinctive polka dot-like spotting. Extremely rare and pretty. Males are a softer tone of regular Aleutian. Females are a beautiful cinnamon-orange with dark spotting.
Bibbed Golden Aleutian: Very rare. Golden Aleutian with White Bib.
Chestnut Aleutian: Very rare. A darker, richer-colored version of Aleutian.
Snowy: Spectacularly brilliant-colored drakes and lovely frosted hens.
Bibbed Snowy: Rare sub-variety of Snowy, displaying a White Bib on chest.
Golden Snowy: Lovely, rare variety of the Snowy. Males are softer-hued versions of regular Snowys; females have beautiful frosted/marbled plumage in shades of fawn and burnt orange.
Bibbed Golden Snowy: Extremely rare. White-bibbed version of the Golden Snowy.
Trout: Genotype is wild pattern plus light. Brilliant, high contrast plumage; females have eye-catching creamy white facial stripe and heavily spotted bodies. Bright, high contrast colors in both genders. An ancient and now extremely rare color in Hookbills.
Blizzard Trout: Genotype unknown. In appearance looks like blend of snowy and trout.
Golden Trout: An ancient and now extremely rare color in Hook Bills. A frosted, pastel version of the wild Gray pattern.
Golden Sepia: Genotype is wild pattern and brown. Same plumage patterns as the Grays, but in lovely soft hues. Exceptionally rare, especially in males.
Bibbed Golden Sepia: Bibbed version of the Golden Sepia. Only a handful in existence.
White: Genotype is recessive white, which hides all other color genetics present. When Whites are bred to colored birds, 50 to 100 percent of the offspring can be colored, and there can be some beautiful surprises.
Blue and Blue bibbed: Genotype has extended black pigment which is considered extinct in hookbills.
Black and black bibbed: Extinct.