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2006-07-21 22:13:59 · 13 answers · asked by beth w 1 in Pets Birds

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2006-07-22 01:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

So folks know, a weiro is an Australian name for Cockatiels :-) .

In most cases a male tiel will have a yellow face and a solid colored tail with no barring. He'll also twitter a cute little mating song that includes banging of his beak and prancing up and down his perch. The song is a complex warble that can become quite musical the older he gets. It can also last as long as 30 minutes!

Females have a grayer colored face and have a barred tail. She doesn't sing much, but has a persistent chirp that is less complex than the Male's song. These rules are true for most color varieties, including lutino, white face, cinnamon and perhaps silver, though don't quote me on that last one. The exceptions to these rules are pearls (spotted) as pearls are almost always female if they're older than 9 months of age. Some strains of pearl have allowed males to keep the gorgeous spotting, but this is a rarity still. You'll have to DNA sex Albinos (AKA white faced lutinos) as they have no markings at all.

I hope I've helped. Good luck to you!

2006-07-22 05:42:25 · answer #2 · answered by white_ravens_white_crows 5 · 0 0

you.....ask.


Sorry about that, I did think you were referring to WERIDOS.
I noticed someone else thought some of us might do that.

I searched the internet, now I know that Weiros are what Australians refer to as cockatiels.

2006-07-22 06:10:32 · answer #3 · answered by okiewenee 3 · 0 0

Steal their IDs. Look for whiskers, Check out the size of their feet. Take an inventory of their sex organs.

What is a wiero, anyway? Sounds like some sort of wierdo if you ask me.

2006-07-22 05:21:41 · answer #4 · answered by Grist 6 · 0 0

The only 100% accurate way of determining the sex of your bird is to have a DNA blood test performed. Your avian vet may also be able to tell by examining the bird. Cockatiels have 2 bony structures at the base of their abdomens, above the vent. In the female, the structure is more flexible and further apart. A person inexperienced with breeding birds should NOT try to do this. You can seriously injure your bird. Breeders frequently use visual clues which suggest whether a cockatiel is male or female. In some types of cockatiels, the females have duller cheek patches, all gray or all brown faces, spots under their wing feathers and barring on their tail feathers. You may need to hold one of these feather up to a bright light and use a magnifying glass to see them.

Pieds and Lutino Whitefaces "Can not be visually sexed. If a Pied cockatiel has dark tail feathers, it may be possible to tell by the barring or lack of barring on the tail feathers."

Lutinos --Lutinos are all yellow birds with orange cheek patches, and not even a speck of gray on their feathers or body. Females have bright yellow spots under their wing and very light yellow bars on their tails. Males lack these markings.

Normal Grays --Females have gray faces and crests, dull orange cheek patches and a tint of yellow around their forehead, eyes and beaks. Females also have yellow spots on the underside of their wing feathers. The bar pattern on their tails are yellow and gray. Males have bright orange cheek patches and bright yellow faces. Their crests are all yellow, tipped with gray.

Pearls --Pearls are gray, brownish or yellow, birds with speckled white markings that look like pearls. Male birds will lose their pearl markings, usually after their first molt. After the first molt males will have yellow or white faces. Female birds will have faces that are gray or brownish.

Mutations are the result of inbreeding various colored cockatiels. Mutations which produce gray/brown birds with white or yellow markings include Whiteface, Pastel Face,Yellow Cheek, Silver,Fallow Cinnamon, etc . Females have gray or brown faces, spots under their wing feathers, and a bar pattern on their tails. Females will also have lighter cheek patches. Males will have white or yellow faces and crests. Males will not have the spots and bar patterns that females have.

2006-07-22 05:19:48 · answer #5 · answered by babyvett 3 · 0 0

Normal Grey
Females have mainly grey faces with only traces of yellow around the beak, eyes, and forehead. Their cheek patches appear duller since there is a wash of grey over the orange and their crests are grey. They have yellow spots on the underside of their flight feathers and conspicuous yellow and grey barring on their tails. After their first molt at 6 to 8 months males lack the tail barring and the flight feather spots but have a bright yellow face and 'bib'. Their crests are mainly yellow with grey only at the tip. The cheek patches are a bright orange since there is no grey there to dull them. The white wing patch is immaterial when sexing.

Normal Whiteface, Cinnamon, Fallow, Silver, Yellowcheek, Pastelface, and any other mutation which results in a basically grey or brown bird with white or yellow accents can be sexed in the same way as the greys. That is females will have grey or brown faces, spots under their flight feathers, and barring on their tails and generally have lighter cheek patches. Males will lack the spots and bars but have white or yellow faces and crests.

Pearls
Some sources confidently state that male pearls always lose their pearl markings during their juvenile molt but I've recently read that some breeders have developed male pearl birds who do not lose their markings at adulthood or who lose them slowly over a period of years. In any case, after their first molt males will have yellow or white faces and females will have grey or brown ones. The yellow face is probably your best guide at this point.

Lutinos
These birds have no grey at all on them, their bodies cannot make the grey or brown pigments. A bird with a lot of yellow that has dark eyes and perhaps a small area of grey somewhere, even only one feather or toenail, is not a lutino but a pied. Lutinos can be visually sexed since the females will have the same bright yellow spots under the flight feathers and their tails will show a yellow on cream or cream on yellow barring pattern. Males are sexed by the absence of these traits. One note -- a very pale lutino may not show the patterns clearly, try holding a shed tail feather up to a strong light. It has been said that Lutino-pearls are difficult to sex. These same people claim some males retain their pearls for several molts and, depending on the extent of the pearling the underwing spots and tail bars may or may not have been present to begin with in either male or female. If you have a baby lutino-pearl with spots and/or bars who loses them in the juvenile molt you know that you've got a male. If you've got an adult without these markings you can be fairly certain it is a male.

Pieds and Lutino-Whitefaces (incorrectly known as "albinos")
Lutino Whiteface (a.k.a. Albinos) can't be visually sexed. An alternative method such as blood sexing, feather sexing, or surgical sexing may be necessary. Sexing by feeling the pelvic bones is generally held to be unreliable and potentially dangerous if done by an inexperienced person. Sexing in this manner generally is not accurate anyway until the bird reaches maturity and in the case of a female, has laid eggs previously.

If your pied cockatiel has some dark tail feathers, it may be possible to tell by the barring or lack of barring on the tail feathers.

Other Notes
If a bird lays an egg its a female.
Some mutations are sex-linked and you can often tell the sex of these by knowing the colors of the parents. Lutinos, Cinnamons, and Pearls are common sex linked mutations. Basically, if the father carries the sex-linked color either visually or as a split and the mother does not visually show that color, (females can't be split to a sex link mutation -- yes, this is backwards from humans and other mammals) any babies with that coloring are female. When the male parent is split not all of the female babies will be the mutation color but all babies of the mutation color will be female.
In general males whistle and females are quieter but there are exceptions.
Two birds of the same sex who both have strong parental instincts may form a pair bond and go through the motions of mating and nesting.
Unless you want to breed your birds it is not really necessary to know what sex they are but knowing may make it easier to choose an appropriate name and add to your general enjoyment of your pet.

2006-07-22 09:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

This is one species where the females are coloured more strikingly than the males. These specimens have been bred to enhance the rose-colouring; in particular, the male is ``split for blue''

2006-07-22 05:17:39 · answer #7 · answered by heidielizabeth69 7 · 0 0

Well, if they're THAT weird, I wouldn't care about what sex they were.

I wouldn't be interested in them.

2006-07-22 05:16:57 · answer #8 · answered by Molly 6 · 0 0

You wait until they open their overcoat....J/K!

Here's a link for you:

http://www.birdhouse.resteddoginn.ca/sexing.php

2006-07-22 05:19:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i think most people are gonna think you are referring to weirdos

2006-07-22 05:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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