I've been saying my budgie is female, but now I'm not sure.. What do you think?

Question

These pictures are from when she (or he) was ~6 months old.

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Answer 1

Definatley sure its a male
His nose will stay pink-blue because hes a vanilla.
If it was a female the cere will creamy-brown but it is a male


Being by himself he will ask you to preen his head for him. My budgie that lived inside asked me to preen him. (Died years ago now :o()

My friends budgie like a toothbrush on his head

Answer 2

She is a female.

Some people will tell you that you can't tell the sex of a baby
parakeet, but they are mistaken. I learned the method below from
people who breed budgies to show. It only works on regularly
colored birds, not on albinos or lutinos (birds with red eyes).
I don't know how to sex those.

First, make sure you have a baby. Young parakeets have black bars
on their foreheads all the way down to their beak; older birds have
a clear, unbarred forehead. Young parakeets have eyes entirely
black; most (not all) older birds have white irises.

Not all parakeets sold in pet stores are babies - often there are
adults mixed in.

Now look closely at the cere (the fleshy skin over the beak, where
the nostrils are).

MALE baby parakeets have TRANSLUCENT PINK ceres, that look a bit
like a sore thumb. The cere may have a bluish or purplish tint.
FEMALE baby parakeets have OPAQUE WHITE covering most of the cere,
especially around the nostrils. It often has a light blue tint.

Notice that in babies, the blue color is not helpful - it does not
mean you have a male. What matters is whether the skin is
translucent or opaque.

There is a lot of individual variation in this. However, females
normally have the opaque whiteness covering MOST of the cere, with
the area surrounding the nostrils being an especially solid white.
Males may have some opacity around the nostrils too, but it's not
as intensely white as on females, and it doesn't cover such a large
area of the cere.

Another clue is that males are much more vocal than females, even
as babies. They chatter and sing on and on!

It will help you learn to sex them if you examine a big group of
birds at a pet store and try to figure out each bird's sex. At
first, when I did this, most of the birds always looked female to
me. After a while, though, it got easier to tell them apart. In
some it's more obvious what their sex is than in others.

SEXING ADULT PARAKEETS

In adult MALES, the cere is BLUE all over.
In adult FEMALES, the cere VARIES. Females grow an ugly brown
crusty skin on the cere when they are ready to breed. Later this
falls or peels off, and the cere returns to its underlying color,
which can be white, beige, or bluish. If you look at the color of
the rest of the bird, it can help explain the color of the cere.
Look at the toes and beak. Some birds have pink toes and bright
yellow beaks. Others are much bluer, with greyish-blue toes and
dark greyish-green beaks. These birds may have a bluer cere, too.
Thus, a non-breeding female with a bluish cere is not necessarily
sick or undergoing a sex change.

Answer 3

Will be difficult to sex your bird because it is a hybrid. In a hybrid bird the cere will not turn blue if it is a male and it will not turn brown if a female ready to mate. The bird's cere generally remains a color in-between, like your pictured bird. Have been breeding and selling birds 12 years. My suggestion is to go to a specific web site about parakeets on the web that discusses unusual characteristics. Since the bird is over 6 months old, the color of the cere will not change. Both sexes are equally noisy.

Answer 4

I'm going to go with the breeder on this one. He is male.

Check out the coloration index on this website:

http://www.birds-online.de/allgemein/geschlecht-maennchen_en.htm

The females have more of an opaque beak than the males when it comes to Lutinos. Males of that type do NOT have blue ceres like the "classic" parakeet but a very light pink or purple cere.

Answer 5

This is defenitely a male since he is a creamino wich belongs to the ino's he will always have a pink cere and when he is in breeding mood he will have a purplish couloured cere.If it were a female her cere would have been white by this time.So yup its a male.

Answer 6

The gender of an adult Budgie can usually be told by the color of the "cere", the patch of skin just above the beak. In males it is bluish, and in females, it is brownish. I am pretty sure that your bird actually IS a female.

Answer 7

I think she's a real beauty.
Females can have a cere that is lavender or tan/brown.
You will need to help her with those pin feathers coming in on her head. If she was with another budgie..the buddy would help her preen the areas she couldn't reach.

Answer 8

She is a little girl. The little crest above her nose is either tan or pink if she is a female and yours is definatley pink. I used to breed parakeets. And she is adorable too.

Answer 9

I say you're right. This bird looks like a female

Answer 10

Looks like a female to me.