Gender ?

Question

How can you tell a parakeets gender? I have a parakeet and he/she is a very light cream colored bird with a few bright yellow feathers.How can I tell what gender it is?

Answer 1

The darker the beak(typically blue) is male...lighter is a female.

Answer 2

Hard to say because this can depend on that type of mutation your bird really is.

Albino and Lutinos and other red eyed mutations as well as recessive pied in budgies have a different cere colour than the normal.

Also the age of the bird can change the colour of the cere.

Male:
Young bar head males - (the black stripe touch the beak) will have a very bright smooth pink cere.

Older males- no bars and maybe an iris ring (white ring in eye) will have a strong blue cere which will be smooth.

Alblino/lutino, other red eyed mutations and Recessive pied males- they males to not get the grown up blue colour but rather keep the baby pink.

Females
Young bar heads - these can have a range of colours from a pinky tone with white rings around the nares to a blue white all over the cere.

Older females - The cere around the age of 6 months will start to change from the baby colour to a deeper brown and will start to appear crusty. This can change depending on the time of year, this is the colour normally found when the female is in breeding condition. When she isn't the brown can peel off and be a light blue colour.

Alblino/lutino, other red eyed mutations and Recessive pied - unlike the males the females of these types get the same changes as any other female.

Hope this helps there is this site : http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/
That is where budgie breeders from all over the world come and can answer your questions. There are pictures of what a male and females look like and if you post pictures can be informed of your budgie mutation.

Answer 3

At this site I found this,
http://www.budgies.org/info/faq.html#sexing
"In general, the color of a budgie's cere is the simplest indicator of sex in adult budgies: males are blue, and females are white, light beige, reddish, or brown. While it is fairly accurate, the color of the cere cannot always be used to sex a budgie. With some color varieties, like albinos, lutinos, fallows, and some recessive pieds like harlequins, both males and females have beige or pink colored ceres. Other visual sexing methods include females having an almost invisible, whitish rings around their nostrils, and males having more rounded, bulbous ceres, both of which are often hard to recognize to the untrained eye. And many people also say that females bite harder than males and that males have rounder heads while females heads are more flat on the top. "

Mating, vocalizations, and behavior are no way to tell the gender of the bird either as you will have females that are just as dominant, aggressive, and chatty as a male. This can also be the other way around that the male can be all these. If two females are together one will take on the male role sometimes and the other lays eggs this is still not a positive way to tell the gender of these birds.

This site has some pics for you to compare with
http://freespace.virgin.net/cobber.budgies/sexingadults.html

Answer 4

I asked a similar question this morning. I have 3 budgies and the two 6 month old ones have changed the colors of their ceres since I got them. Read some of the responses I got. I am still not sure if I have 3 males or 2 males and a female.
Good luck to us both!

Answer 5

I have a parakeet myself. I asked the employee what gender it is and she said that if the beak is a dark color ( such as blue ) then it is a male. If it is a light color ( such as pink ) then it is a female.

Answer 6

The color just between the beak and the eyes. If blue then you have a male, otherwise you have a female.

Answer 7

The nostril(keer) of the parakeet will be dominent blue(bright blue). A female will have a pinkish nostril(keer)

Answer 8

Ok I can help you.

Males have a blue cere (skin around nose)
Females have a pink or brown cere

Answer 9

one feature taht would tell you is their beaks. the male has blue on their beaks and the females have a yellowish-light brown.