How can I tell the sex of my cockatiel myself?

Question

Color is not always accurate.

Answer 1

Males have a great vocal ability and whistle a lot females generally are fairly quiet

Males whistle and call, whereas females tend to screech females are often more likely to hiss and bite

Where applicable, males have slightly darker or brighter colorings on the face and orange cheek patches any hint of barring, markings or spots on the underside of the tail feathers or wings when they are spread indicates a female (you may need to hold your cockatiel up to a bright light in order to see any markings)

Males tend to strut around - they lift their wings slightly, stick their chest out and parade and strut, normally calling at the same time

Place a mirror in front of your cockatiel. How does it react? Normally a male will be fascinated and the mirror should hold his attention for quite some time while he performs in front of it. A female tends to lose interest fairly quickly.

Answer 2

Some male birds take a little while longer than others, but yes, only male cockatiels will talk and sing. Female birds will chirp and scwack, as well as lay eggs further down the road. A male bird won't say much of anything at such an early age. My hand-fed Cockatiel didnt talk until a few months after we got him...and when he started talking and singing...it was a colaberation of things we had always been trying to teach him. Depending on the color of the bird, you can sometimes tell that way. A 'pearl' feathered Cockatiel, will loose it's pearls after molt if it is a male. Females with stay pearled throughout their life. And often times, a female Cockatiel will have bars on the underside of the tail feathers. Even pelvic checking is not always 100% until they are mature birds. But you can always look into a completely accurate way of sexing a small bird safely by getting a DNA test through Zoogen. It cost about $35 in California.

Answer 3

Males are generally more vocal and whistling than the females. If it whistles a lot, it is probably a male.
Also, if it is a Grey Cockatiel, it will have a deeper grey coloring on it's body, and the orange patches on it's cheeks will me brighter than a female.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

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How can I tell the sex of my cockatiel myself?
Color is not always accurate.

Answer 5

It is pretty hard to accuratley tell on your own but Males usually have vertical stripes on the underside of their tails and females have horizontal. This is a tip my avian vet gave me when I was breeding tiels.
I would say have your avian vet do a blood test to be positive.
Good Luck :o)

Answer 6

Okay, if the color thing is not showing up they may be too young to tell...
But the males will twitter and sing more...the females will let out attention getter tweets (kinda loud) but it will not be as musical..

Answer 7

If it lays eggs it's female. If not it could be a male, or a late starting female.