Ah the age old question, should I get a boy or a girl? A man or a woman? When you are considering whether you want your new pet parakeet to be male or female\n you can at least rest assured that there won\u2019t be too many behavioral \ndifferences between genders. It has been noted by some parakeet owners \nhowever that a Male parakeet will bob their head and they are generally \nmore active and more social whilst a female parakeet will generally tend to be more bossy and screechy\/louder and some owners have also reported the females as being harder to train when it comes to talking and finger taming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

So, how do you tell if a parakeet is male or female?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only real way to tell if your parakeet is male or female is by the cere. The trouble with this is that for all parakeets under 8 to 12 months of age they have the same colored cere which is usually a violet or bright pink colour. As your parakeet sexually matures the cere actually changes colour according to the sex of the budgie and also it\u2019s genetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n