How can you tell if a parakeet's s*x?

Question

i went 2 buy a love bird and i asked how can you tell if its a boy or girl and she told me 2 touch the birds stomach that is next to their tail and she said if the hole is closed is a girl and if the hole is open is a girl 2 lay eggs.

Answer 1

Lovebirds and parakeets are entirely different species.  Not sure which one you are asking about.

The person at the pet store was trying to explain pelvic sexing.  Since females lay eggs, they develop a larger gap between the pelvic bones, however, this does not occur until the female is mature enough to lay eggs.

Pelvic sexing is not accurate, completely outdated, and can cause injury to the bird.

Aside from having one lay an egg, the only way to accurately determine the s*x of lovebirds is through DNA testing.

Parakeets/budgies are sexually dimorphic, meaning that males and females have different markings.

Parakeet s*x is determined by the color of their cere, which is the part of the beak which covers the nostrils.

Here is a link which explains the difference:

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs...

Answer 2

first of all people its called a cere and if its blue otr purple its a male and peachy and brown its a female

Answer 3

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 s*x them if you examine a big group of

birds at a pet store and try to figure out each bird's s*x.  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 s*x 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 s*x change.

http://www.kiva.net/~daylight/budgie.htm...

This information was copied and pasted from this website.  I had to make sure I gave them the credit.

Answer 4

You can tell a budgie's s*x by the colour of their nostrils, however with albinos it isn't always clear. The males have a more coned head. The females have brown nostrils and males blue. I'm sorry this is probably no use because I don't know anything about lovebirds.