Lutinos are often difficult to sex visually because of the lack of colour contrast. A female lutino cockatiel will usually have spots on the underside of the flight feathers and barring or stripes on the underside of the tail feathers. This difference in the sexes can only be used to sex adult birds as all young birds ie under 6 months old look like females.
Depending on the coloration of your individual cockatiel, a wild coloration male will have brighter cheek patches. Females tend to have dull orange, while males will have a deep red or red orange circle on their cheek. If you have lutinos, pearls, and pieds, this can be a difficult way to determine gender, and you are better off having your bird DNA sexed by a veterinarian.
I hope I'm adding my two cents correctly here: A vet can tell the sex of a cockatiel by checking the size of the hip bones in the vent but an even easier way to check on your own is to look at the underside of the tail feathers (I don't know if this alplies to albino tiels). If the tail feathers are a soild grey it's a male, if they are horizonatally striped it's female. The bright cheeks and extra yellow in the face are also male traits but it's hard to be sure sometimes unless you have two birds to compare against one another. Hope this helps!
The only way of visually sexing these birds is after their first moult as all young cockatiels look like females. Male cockatiels are characterised by their brighter cheek patches, usually orange in appearance, as they get older. Females also have cheek patches but they are paler.
There is an urban myth that males have striped/barred or spotted tails and females do not. There is no evidence to substantiate this. There seems to be more evidence to support the contrary theory, that males have a solid slate grey underside to their tail, while females have a barred or mottled underside. However, it need to be noted that, with the many variations that have been bred into cockatiels since they became popular aviary birds, both males and females can have variegated tail feathers. Reputable bird identification websites will show that this is not always the case.
An avian specialist can also tell the difference through the width of the pelvic bones. Females' pelvic bones are wider than males.
When they are young there isn't really a way of telling apart from feeling the pelvic bones. Females will have wider set bones and males will have narrower. However, don't try this unless you are an experienced breeder as it can cause injury t the bird (such as bone breakage). With the wild grey cockatiels (the normal ones) the females will almost always have spots under their tail. Also, when the wild grey cockatiels get older you will notice less or no yellow on the female's face. You can get cockatiels tested by veterinarians which is the only 100% guarantee method. If you buy your cockatiel as a sexually mature adult the pet store workers or breeder should be able to tell you but once again only if it is an adult.
As for personality and behaviour both genders are similar from birth to about 9-12 months when the males will begin to mimick tunes and become quite assertive. Females will not usually do this however there are exceptions. Females are generally cuddlier if you have trained them correctly and if they were hand raised.
Cockatiels are really easy to tell the sex of. All female cockatiels are dull colored like gray white or brown but male cockatiels have larger crests on their heads and are usually gray or white with some bright colors like yellow on the body or little red dots on each cheek.
Lutino cockatiels are a colour not a gender. However, it does happen that because of the genetics and chromosones they are most often female although there are some males lutinos around (or there wouldn't be any left.)
You have to take it in and have blood drawn from it, then wait for the results from the lab to tell you.
Yes, cockatiels can get parasites.
the gender is a guy you can tell
Cockatiels are a type of cockatoo.
Cockatiels are parrots, and members of the cockatoofamily.
Cockatiels should not have a lump on their throat.
No, cockatiels should only be housed with other cockatiels. Not only do other types of birds have different types of diets, but they also have different personalities and will sometimes clash with cockatiels.
No. The gender is not related to the relationship of the parents.
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