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Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / February 2008tell sex by the cockatiel's nose
i just heard something about . telling a tiel's sex by it nose. like 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 No budgies and cockatiels are totally different. Budgies have different colors around their nose and cockatiels don't. >i just heard something about . telling a tiel's sex by it nose. like >you would with a budgie. i never heard of it from the bird groups or i [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN I've heard it but with all of the cockatiels I've seen - male or female - 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. :) thank you for getting back to me about this. have a great week BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN I thought there was something about the fleshy part betwwen the nose remaining a pinkish color meant female. > thank you for getting back to me about this. have a great week > > BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN I've heard it but with all of the cockatiels I've seen - male or female - 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. :) 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 The beaks on my normal male tiels have gone from tan to gray/dark gray (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. >I've heard it but with all of the cockatiels I've seen - male or female - >both have pale noses. I guess the only way that I can really tell is the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > i just heard something about . telling a tiel's sex by it nose. like > you would with a budgie. i never heard of it from the bird groups or i [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN Sorry, but the lady is wrong.  SignatureMama ~^~^~^~ Visit Mamabird's Nest: <http://iluvbirds.tripod.com/> And My Photo Albums at: <http://photos.yahoo.com/iluvbirdz> " 'Ruba gave mommy a big big big big big! <pause> Kiss." - Female DYH, Aruba ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Cockatiels are dimorphic, which means that there are 2 distinct forms of the 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 > i just heard something about . telling a tiel's sex by it nose. like > you would with a budgie. i never heard of it from the bird groups or i [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN Bars on the tail, not spots, are an indicator of a female tiel. Dimorphism 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.... > Cockatiels are dimorphic, which means that there are 2 distinct forms of the > gender. Eclectus being the easiest to tell which is by their color, red [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > BERNIE: THE BIRD MAN |
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