My parakeet's age?

Question

I have a parakeet and I'm pretty sure it's a girl. But I read somewhere that they're four months or younger when they have lines on their forehead and a purple cere. My parakeet's lines stop around the middle of her head but she has a light purple cere and around the nose holes, it's blue......?!

Answer 1

An older  female (a year or more) will have

A clear forehead(no lines) and a dark brown cere.She would be a little smaller than a male and not sing as much.

If you could send us a pic,would be great!

To, me it sounds as if you have a male.

Answer 2

"Baby budgies have pure black eyes while adults often have a light colored ring around the dark area of the eye. This is called the iris ring and most budgies (with the exception of recessive pieds) acquire this ring by the time they are 12 months of age. Baby budgies also have black bars running from the forehead down to the cere. With the first molt (which happens around 4 months of age) the bars will gradually recede. Extremely young budgies have black areas on the beak and this indicates a budgie that is no more than six weeks of age."

http://www.petinfopackets.com/budgies/bu...

Also see here: http://budgietalk.com/budgiegender.html