Okay, thanks!
So would you say that the green one is a male and the blue one is a female?
They do both groom and feed each other (regurgitate). I know this is common behavior for budgies kept with other budgies, but could this be a way of determining their genders?
I just got mine this week and they aren’t tamed. They just tolerate me. LolRight but like you said there are distinctive characteristics of both sexes in Melopsittacus undulatus (Budgerigar) that differentiate them.
@Hercules Hernandez As a long term Budgie owner myself I can tell you that, regardless of what colors you can or cannot distinguish on the ceres, the behavior will likely reveal the sexes soon enough. Females tend to be noticeably more reserved and coy, whether housed individually or with others. They also tend to be a bit more pushy towards the males (and each other, sometimes a bit too much).
Males, by contrast, basically "flirt" with everything they can, whether it is alive or inanimate. They "bob their heads" all over the place like @The Snark said. It's actually pretty funny to watch.
My male will bob his head and make little "pip pip pip" noises as he inches ever so slightly closer to the female he lives with, until after a several minute endeavor he gets 1 millimeter too close and she whacks at him and he lets out one squawk and ends up on the perch below.
Most humorous, to say the least.
I'm also jealous that yours are already hand tamed. I had one years ago that was hand tamed but not lately. Just haven't had the time to dedicate to it anymore.
Some day I will though. And I'll probably have more too (conures, etc.). I am a bird person for sure.
I have been a bird owner longer than an invertebrate owner, in fact.
The ones that I currently have I've had for a while and unless I had a lot of free time to dedicate to it I'm afraid they probably won't be tamed.
Yes, I did. I couldn’t think of what the site was called.
I have read but am no expert, that the mirrors can actually deter them from becoming hand friendly because the bird will become attached to the bird in the mirror and that they have no concept that they are looking at themselves. Perhaps taking the mirror away would help?Right but like you said there are distinctive characteristics of both sexes in Melopsittacus undulatus (Budgerigar) that differentiate them.
@Hercules Hernandez As a long term Budgie owner myself I can tell you that, regardless of what colors you can or cannot distinguish on the ceres, the behavior will likely reveal the sexes soon enough. Females tend to be noticeably more reserved and coy, whether housed individually or with others. They also tend to be a bit more pushy towards the males (and each other, sometimes a bit too much).
Males, by contrast, basically "flirt" with everything they can, whether it is alive or inanimate. They "bob their heads" all over the place like @The Snark said. It's actually pretty funny to watch.
My male will bob his head and make little "pip pip pip" noises as he inches ever so slightly closer to the female he lives with, until after a several minute endeavor he gets 1 millimeter too close and she whacks at him and he lets out one squawk and ends up on the perch below.
Most humorous, to say the least.
I'm also jealous that yours are already hand tamed. I had one years ago that was hand tamed but not lately. Just haven't had the time to dedicate to it anymore.
Some day I will though. And I'll probably have more too (conures, etc.). I am a bird person for sure.
I have been a bird owner longer than an invertebrate owner, in fact.
The image I posted is of a solitary bird that I owned many years ago. My current ones do not have mirrors.
Mirrors are not a bad influence, I don't know why people think they are. My budgies have three mirrors and are very affectionate. One will fly up my arm and on my shoulder etc
I know that. I was responding to someone else.
Okay, I was just saying that too. Birds break everything lol