How can you tell if you have a female parakeet or a male parkeet?

Question

One bird is blue and the other bird is yellow.

Answer 1

Feather color is not useful at all in distinguishing if your bird is male or female. You need to look at the cere (the hard part around the nostrils).

The color of the cere (the area containing the nostrils) differs between the sexes:

blue in males
pale-brown to white (non-breeding) or brown (breeding) in females and pink in immatures of both genders (usually of a more even purplish-pink colour in young males).
Young females can often be identified by a subtle chalky whiteness that starts around the cere nostril holes. Males that are albinos, lutinos or recessive pieds usually retain the immature purplish-pink cere color their entire life

Answer 2

One way to tell if your parakeets are male or female is the coloring of their cere (the part right above the beak). If the bird is male the cere is bright blue, if female the cere is brownish, beige. This way of telling the gender only works on older and healthy parakeets. You can also pay people to tell the gender of your bird with DNA testing.

Answer 3

Look at the cere which is right over the beak. A male will have a blue or lavender cere. A female will have a pink/tannish cere. If your birds are still under 3 months old, you'll have to wait. Young parakeets all have pink ceres.

Answer 4

if the piece above the beak is blue it is a male . if it is yellow it is a female. my best advise is to get a book on the birds and read up on them because that is the way i learned.pet shop can tell u what to look for to tell the sex.

Answer 5

Actually, the males tend to talk more. One thing you could try doing is getting a twig or stick and placing it in the cage. The bird that chews the most on the twig is more likely the female.

Answer 6

By the color of their nose. In most breeds the male has a deep blue color and girl can have a pink color (brown when they have their "period") if ur keets are too young u can't tell yet unless u have a dna test...i suggest just waiting

Answer 7

Its hard to tell the difference in birds the easiest way to do it is to take them to the vet and they have a proper procedure to sex your birds for you.

Answer 8

whilst sexually mature the adult males have an extreme blue cere(section above the cere)aside from the uncommon mutations wich are lutino ,albino,and pied, those adult males could have a pinkish to crimson cere.while women will consistently have a brown to powdery blue cere.

Answer 9

I don't think color has anything to do with the sex of the animal. I think the pet store could have told you that other than that stick your finger each of it's butt and have a puppet theater.

Answer 10

look right above the beak..
if it's blue or a dark color, its a male
if its a light pink, red.. it's a female