How can I tell if my parakeets are male or female?

Question

We just bought some budgie Parakeets. The people we got them from said they were 10 weeks old and one was a male and one a female but how can you tell?

Answer 1

Honestly it is almost impossible to tell.  We got a cockatiel around 4 years ago and they told us that we were getting a male bird.  Well, about a year later good old boy-bird started laying eggs.  You really can't even tell at all by trying to look under the hood.  Some people say there is a particular way the chirp, but it is really hard to say.

Answer 2

the cere at the top of the beak pinkish

brown = female

blue = male

when the are young they have a pinkis purple cere

in some cases of stress for the male the cere turns to the same color of the female it like telling everone "hey i am not a threat don't pick on me" (it might be the other way round and i read it on the net so it may not be true)

Answer 3

males have blue on top of their beaks

and the females have white or light brown on top of their beaks

Answer 4

I don't know but you could just listen to the people who told you and don't ask questions or ask them?