By request, I went through the archives and found some fairly good pictures that show the cere color in very young birds. This is only to illustrate one way I could tell the different sexes in my birds, but it should give you a fair idea of possible cere colors when trying to sex a young bird. All these were taken between 4 and 8 weeks.

 

I won't even make you guess....

 

Female

 

Female

 

left to right - Female, Female, Male

 

Male

 

Male

 

back to front - Female, Female, Male, Female

 

Female

 

left to right - Female, Male

very nice Rainbow I hope this help folks around here a lot

Wow this is an amzing post thatk you sooo much now I knkow that my new bird is....A MALE!!!!

thanks for that i think i am pretty confident about sexing them now which is good bacause i'll be picking out my new budgie(s) soon, i guessed them all right except this one

 

 

I thought it was female, because of the white round the nostrils.. or was that just relection?

Thanks Rainbow, those pictures were very helpful. I'm like really hoping that I'll be able to pick out a male. Keep your fingers crossed!

Those pictures were really helpful Rainbow.

 

Jess, are you getting your bird from a pet shop or a breeder. If you can get one from a breeder they should be able to pick a male for you.

Thanks rainbow, i think i have a ton of males???

Basically the girls have a purple cere and the boys have a pink cere

no, not really. The male usualy has a white ring in the nostrils.

What? :mellow: I thought that males had translucent pinky purple ceres as babies and girls had pinky blue with white rings around nostrils?

I think adam meant it the other way.

Females will have the white ring. Most all babies will have a purplish cere at hatch, which gradually changes shade as they age, males to blue (or pink with recessive or double factor dominant pieds and albino/lutinos) females to light blue, to white, to tan, finally to brown.