tell sex by the cockatiel's nose
Bernie Macpherson
you would with a budgie. i never heard of it from the bird groups or i
never read it in any bird books that i have.
i told the lady that you can just do that with budgies that i know of.
but the lady said you can do that with cockatiels too. Has anyone ever
heard of this before?
BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN
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different colors around their nose and cockatiels don't.
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Jen & Nate
both have pale noses. I guess the only way that I can really tell is the
male has the yellow/white head and the female is more of a muted gray.
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BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN
tiels_r_cool
remaining a pinkish color meant female.
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Liquid Memory
gender. Eclectus being the easiest to tell which is by their color, red
being female and the males are green. A female cockatiel will have spots
that form underneath the wing, and will extend most of the underside up to
the belly/chest area. Males will have very little spots or no spots at all,
and definitely never close to the chest area under the wing.
Tony
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Marco
Nope, you can't tell the sex of a tiel by the cere color. i don't know
why people have such a hard time telling the sexes apart in cockatiels,
between coloration and behavior it is pretty simple to tell.
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Nope the ONLY way to sex a tiel is DNA sexing. 'Course if it lays an egg
you should figure it out. You can not tell by the nasal openings at all.
If it's a normal gray bird then yeah the hen and male are different. The
male being brighter and the females orange and yellows are more washed out
looking. and in the various mutations you can not tell at all.
Most females do not sing tunes they chirp. Males often learn more
melodious tunes if that helps.
Josh
NaDeana
only applies to the normal greys, not the mutations. However, immature males
and females have these bars until their first molt. Behaviour is the easiest
method to determine sex in tiels that are immature or pied/lutino. Males are
very vocal and loud! Every male tiel that I have ever met will do the wolf
whistle, and do it loud! followed by some sort of song. Females have a
tendency to squawk the same pitch. Males also will hold their wings out to
the side a little from the shoulder and hop when they become sexually mature
and may even drum on the ground with their beak. At least this is the way my
6 males act....
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swatter
(darker towards the tip) over the years. My female yellow/gray pearl
tiel has retained her tan beak, but I'm not sure if that's because she's
female or just the pigmentation. The males are 6 and 11 years old and
the female is 12.