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My new (ish) bird has started his moult, now he is almost 3 months old. I'm just making sure, he is a 'he' right? His cere is pink and I think it is starting to turn blue, that is why he sometimes looks like a female in some lights. I'm pretty certain he is a boy though, just wanted to make sure.

 

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Also, you can see the colour of his cheek patches in that photo. Is he Mauve or Grey? (I think he is Mauve..)

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Yes. Here are some:

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So, male or female? I hope not female, I bought him really to even up my flock, with 2 males for 5 females I need more boys!

Looks female to me. Too much white on cere for it to be anything else

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Are you sure it's not just because his/her cere is turning blue that it looks like a female's?

I've looked through pictures of Sunny at that age, and compared it to Coal's..(his/her name) and I have to admit, Sunny's cere was a definite dark-ish pink with blue around the nostrils..while the pictures (and in real life, the pics of him I posted are the same as it looks from here) of Coal have his cere as a much lighter pink and there is white around his nostrils..

But compared to, say, Kato's cere--her being the same age as him--she is obviously a female..her cere is white with a bit of blue, and even now is turning brown. So why would Coal not look like Kato, if he/she is female?

Anyway, just some things I was wondering, though now you've got me convinced Coal is a girl...if he/she is, then I'm overrun with females!

Does the cere look whitish like the photos show here ? If whitish in any way, it is female.

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