The age of a parrot with an accuracy can be determined only when a bird still absolutely small. After to a parrot month is executed, even experienced manufacturers will be able only to tell approximately when he was born. However in general the nonprofessional can distinguish a young parrot from old even.
Instruction
1. Attentively make out a head of a bird. If at a budgerigar the black-and-white plumelets go waves, beginning directly from a voskovitsa (site of skin) at a beak, so the molt was not yet, that is the birdie is no more than three months old. If a forehead at a parrot clean, without strips, before you an adult male or a samochka.
2. Pay special attention to a voskovitsa of a parrot. At young individuals it light violet or gentle-blue color with modulations in white. With age birds males get a bright blue color of a voskovitsa, and a samochka - brown or pink. However there are also nuances: so, at snow-white budgerigars (albinos) and canary-yellow (lyutinos) of voskoviyets remains gentle-lilac throughout all life.
3. Glance to a parrot in eyes. At a young bird they completely black, the iris and a pupil are indistinguishable on color. If the pupil represents the standard black dot surrounded with an iris of white color, so an individual already adult. As the additional proof of age of a parrot feathers about eyes can serve: young baby birds have them, at adult birds - no. However because of specific features the plumelets can be present and absent also for the reasons, independent of age.
4. Estimate a general view of a parrot. At young growth not such bright plumage, waves look indistinct and begin from the top. Length from the head to a tail tip - less than 17 - 18 centimeters, an exception by nature large individuals can make. A tail of a young budgerigar short, but not because feathers dropped out recently (about it it is possible to specify at the owner of a bird) but because did not grow yet.
5. Do not give in on an argument, widespread in the circle of unscrupulous sellers, "the young bird is a not flying bird". If the parrot does not fly, it not necessarily means that he still young also did not learn. It can turn out that the bird just has no forces to rise in air because of an old age or a disease. By the way, parrots begin to fly up at the age of about 40 days, and by the time of sale (about one and a half months) already surely cut air.