Sexing Budgies - How to tell males from females

I don't think anyone has a video like this up yet. I find that sexing budgies is quite easy. I've been doing it for years and can tell just by looking what a budgie is regardless of age or color. Here I talk mostly about how to tell the gender visually based on the cere or the nose color. I explain the exceptions to the general rule of boys have blue noses and girls have brown noses. The main exeptions are the pastels and of course young birds. Normal, as in greens, blues and greys, have pink noses as young males and white to bluish white noses as females. The pastels like the recesive pieds and all white or light yellow budgies are different. The males keep the pink nose into adulthood. The females turn brown. And there are a few rare times were a pastel male will have a blue nose. But that's very rare.

I realize I might have to make a part two as there are other ways to tell besides looking at noses and that includes head shape and eye color. This can be very obvious if you know what you are looking for and there are just as many exceptions. If anyone would like to donate nice sharp pictures for me that would really help. I need close ups of heads and different eye colors from young and adult budgies. I'll give you credit in the description if you do.

Thanks to Kelley for many of the great pictures in this video. Her bird site is
http://www.canadianwingnut.com/index.html

Now if someone would tell me how to tell young pigeons apart yet. I haven't figured it out yet unless there just isn't a trick to it.

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• budgerigar
• parakeet
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