Not so important, you plan to be engaged seriously in cultivation of parrots, look for couple for already available parrot or want further your favourite to surprise guests with a talk. Sometimes the problem of the choice of a parrot of concrete gender and age becomes rather serious. Of course, if not to know some rules.
Instruction
1. Young budgerigars have quite short tail, but this sign disappears by two months when the tail reaches the normal length. Usually by a month the parrots are already able to fly.
2. Pay attention to a coloring of a back of a parrot. At young males on the head and an upper back the wavy pattern is accurately distinguishable. With age the drawing is washed away and becomes indistinct. But brighter and various is the general coloring of plumage.
3. The first molt at parrots occurs in one and a half months. To this age the parrot has to have equal, smooth plumage. If the seller assures you that plumelets simply "did not grow yet", think. Perhaps, bird old or sick.
4. Eyes young parrots of completely black color, with age around a pupil have a white iris.
5. The budgerigar is more senior, the coloring of a beak is lighter. At baby birds a beak almost black, gradually the blackness begins to disappear, and adult birds have a beak completely light, without any black strips.
6. In the top part of a beak the budgerigars have a flow in which nasal openings are located. He is called a voskovitsa. Coloring of a voskovitsa is the main sign at sex determination at budgerigars.
7. Young males have a voskovitsa always monophonic, bluish, lilac, pinkish, and at the self-check, at the same coloring, around nostrils the light ring is visible. With age the ring disappears, and color of a voskovitsa at adults popugay becomes bluish, grayish-white or brown. At mature males of voskoviyets bright blue and brilliant.
8. At very young birds it is difficult to define a sex and by means of a voskovitsa: at baby birds it equally light, almost white. In this case try to observe behavior of birds. Males are more active, like to prove to be, loaf about. Females are usually quiet, sing short plain songs. Certainly, during observation of a bird have to be in a situation, habitual for them.