If you got to yourself a couple of parrots and want to be engaged in their cultivation, it is necessary to assign correctly gender of the individuals intended for reproduction. Without observance of this condition your invention can turn out a complete fiasco. There are several ways to define a male of a parrot.
Instruction
1. Attentively look at a voskovitsa. It is flow in the top part of the basis of a beak. For budgerigars of voskoviyets - the main way of determination of sex. At young parrots of a voskovitsa are almost indiscernible. With age she gets a gentle lilac shade from males, at the self-check becomes light blue. The parrot is more senior, the it will be easier to define his sex.
2. Pay attention to color of eyes of a bird. At parrots of breed of a cockatoo the color distinction is very well noticeable. Males of this look a dark brown or black iris of an eye, and at females cockatoos have it light brown.
3. Attentively take a closer look at appearance of parrots. At redtailed parrots and macaw, the male can be determined by larger head and a powerful beak which wider at the basis, than at females. At parrots of breed of a korell the head yellow, and at females - gray. There is characteristic drawing on inside of wings at the self-check. A tail at males black, at females - yellow and wider. Males zhako possess the big wide head with a large beak, the naked border around eyes is a little wider, than at females.
4. Observe behavior of the pets. This way is applied not so often though is much more reliably previous. Males of budgerigars actively move, flaunt, investigate everything that occurs them in the path. Adult males of a korella vigorous, harmonious, in the presence of a female often knock a beak on a cage. Females quieter and move less.
5. Pick up a parrot. If feeling oppression, the parrot behaves quietly - it is a male. If begins to bite strongly and to escape actively - a female.
6. Pay attention as your birds sit. The fact is that females have wider basin. And when they quietly sit on a pole, their legs are moved apart much more widely, than at a male.
7. Pick up a parrot of a nerazluchnik and put a back on a palm. Feel average and index fingers a basin. If a basin narrow - a male, if wide - a female.
8. Listen what sounds are made by your parrot. Females can shout only loudly, and the male is capable to reproduce long beautiful melodies.