Canaries are beautiful and unpretentious birds. Many people support them as pets. Young canaries quickly get used to the person and, at the correct leaving, please owners with the beautiful appearance and amazing singing. However It should be noted that it is beautiful to sing only males are able, and females only chirp. It is very difficult to distinguish a canary female from a male, sometimes even experienced poultry breeders are mistaken. But after all there are several distinctive signs on which it is possible to define a sex of a bird.
Instruction
1. Accurately pick up a bird. Do not squeeze her too strongly as you can do much harm it. Turn a canary on a back, so that her stomach was well visible to you. Slightly blow on feathers in the lower part of a stomach of a bird. At males of canaries the foul place looks in the form of a small tubule on which end small plumelets are visible. At the self-check it is the place absolutely flat and it is covered with down.
2. Run a finger over a stomach of a bird. If the canary presses pads – that such behavior is characteristic of females. If the bird begins to pull pads – that, most likely, is a male. But such way of definition is extremely not exact, and it is impossible to define a sex of a bird for hundred percent.
3. Pay attention to how the bird chirps. The female makes certain abrupt sounds, and the male begins to inflate slightly a craw and to make more long and deep sounds.
4. Wait when at baby birds there passes the first molt. Right after the first molt the males will begin to give themselves the various trills. Females are not able to sing beautifully therefore they only coo and "assent" to males. The song of a male has several knees, than their is more - that more expensively appreciates a male. Some females can try to sing, but their sounds deaf, and are very similar to usual cooing and chirping. It is not possible to define a sex of a canary during process of a molt on singing as at this time the male does not sing and if sings - that very badly, and he can be confused with a female.
5. If to distinguish a canary female from a male on the listed above ways at you it did not turn out, then wait when the bird grows up and it will be ready to nesting. At this time the female actively will begin to build a nest, to sit down in it and to coo, thereby drawing to itself attention of a kenar. Of course, males can take part in construction of a nest too, but bigger interest will be shown after all by a female, and the male will try to entertain the girlfriend beautiful singing.