How can I tell what sex is my bird?

[Aredhel]

Your bird is a budgie (which Americans usually call a parakeet), and judging from the bright blue cere, it's male.

How to Identify Your Budgie's Sex: 8 Steps (with Pictures)

[JD59]

Here is my other bird which is white and gray.

[Aredhel]

It's harder to see the color of the cere on the second budgie, but I think it's blue, which would mean male. So you probably have two males.

[foxywench]

in this case...ceres might not help yet...that blue baby is YOUNG
the blue budgie still has its forehead barring, as they mature the baring on the face receeds backwards...
like


the grey looks like a slightly older male (still too young to be in breeding color though) look on the back of his head, is there black bars (like in that above picture) if so hes a little bit older than the blue and looks dark enough to be male.
if theres NO barring howver you have a whiteface and there a little harder to age (whitefaces don't get the barring) and in that case like the blue it could go either way.

in the case of youngsters you can still sex based on the ceres (the area around the nostrils)
both males and females will have a blue tint, BUT, females will be WHITE and blue and males will be PINK and blue (or more uniformly blue all over)
if that's the case based on those pictures your grey is a male and your blue is a YOUNG female not yet through her first adult moult...
but given they are young its impossible to guarantee that without DNA.

if you need to know for sure you can DNA sex using a little blood OR a feather for right about $20...
Avianbiotech.com - Avian Sexing Center

[Zen88]

If it talks, ask it.

[JD59]

I will try to take a closer picture of my gray bird. Thanks everyone for the help.

It would look like my bird's would get real tired standing on their wooden rod 24 hours a day? Would a nest work?

[mplo]

Originally Posted by phetaroi

There are DNA services online where you can pluck a feather, send it in, and they will sex your bird.

Please do not allow someone to surgically sex your bird.

Is there a reason you need to know?

Birds don't have be sexually sexed these days. An avian veterinary technician can draw a sample of blood from the birds' toenail, send it off to a special lab somewhere to have it DNA-gender tested, and then either call or email the bird's owner with the results. That's how I had my pet Congo African Grey Parrot, Aziza DNA-tested. The results came back a week and a half later; she's a female, who's now 6.5 years old.

[mplo]

Originally Posted by Aredhel

It's harder to see the color of the cere on the second budgie, but I think it's blue, which would mean male. So you probably have two males.

If the budgie has a blue cere, that means it's a male. A beige cere on a budgie indicates that it's a female.

[mplo]

Originally Posted by Travelassie

What kind of birds are they? Some you can tell by looking, others you can't and they need to be genetically sexed.

Getting a DNA-gender blood test for the bird is really the only accurate, sure-fire way to know what gender a bird is.

[Aredhel]

Originally Posted by John1960

It would look like my bird's would get real tired standing on their wooden rod 24 hours a day? Would a nest work?

Skip the nest, and put in a corner platform instead. Also put in a second perch that has a larger diameter (or even better, one that has a variable diameter, like a natural branch does). That way your birds can rest their feet by changing where they perch, as the differing perch diameters will put pressure on different parts of their feet.