How to tell the gender of a parakeet?

Is your parakeet a girl or a boy? It’s often really difficult to tell the sex of your parakeet or budgie. Some birds are sexually monomorphic which means they do not have any visual differences between the sexes and others are sexually dimorphic which means they have some characteristics which vary between parakeet gender.

For example, a female bird may have blue tipped wings and a male bird may have red tipped wings. That’s a very general example however it accurately explains sexual dimorphism.

In the case of a budgie or parakeet, they are only sexually dimorphic on their cere. The cere is the fleshy part just above their beak. It is the area of skin around their nostrils. The remaining areas of a budgie body, whether male or female are too similar, often identical, to be able to tell the difference in gender.

However, if your budgie is younger than twelve months, then it may be impossible to visually identify whether it’s gender is male or a female. If that is the case, then you will have to take your budgie to an avian veterinarian to be surgically sexed.

http://www.birdtricks.com/Parakeet/parakeet-gender.html

Go to this site, there is a bunch more info.