How can you tell the sex of a male cockatiel and a female cockatiel.?

We have two cockatiels and one tends to whistle and repeat things such as the telephone. It does not talk but whistles back and dances when we whistle to it and we were wondering the sex as we are unsure. We bought it from a petshop but they were uncertain of the sex telling us it COULD be a female!

One bird has a paler yellow face then the other!How can you tell the sex of a male cockatiel and a female cockatiel.?You can find the sex this way. What I am going to tell you sounds weird but it is the way I was taught. Hold the bird securely in your hand, if it is a biter you may need to hold it with a towel around it. Using your 1st finger locate the pelvic bones (they are were the poop comes out) if the tip of your finger can go between the bones it is a girl, it the bones are very close together it is a male. Now when I do this test the youngest birds I will do it on are at least over the age of 4 months, because when they are very young the pelvic area will feel the same, the older the bird the easier it will be to test, our Vet told us that this test is more accurate for Teils and Lovebirds, other birds can not be tested this way, you would need to have a DNA test.







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Join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BorrowedRa鈥?/a>How can you tell the sex of a male cockatiel and a female cockatiel.?Yes, they are sexually dimorphic. In teils, you can tell by the barring on the tail feathers. You need to get a book with good photographs (read:visit you local public library). Also, male teils tend to be much more vocal than females. Correspondingly, female are much more shy. In this species, the general rule seems to be that they learn whistles much more easily than words. It is more natural, anyway, and much easier for any bird to do. They are very sweet and gentle creatures but, let's face it, in the avian world they are intellectually not "the brightest stars shining in the night sky".

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