Budgies can be easily sexed by looking at the color on their cere's once they reach adulthood. Let's start off with male Budgies, then move on to female Budgies.

Male Budgie cere's come in a variety of colors, colors like pink, blue and purple. Pink is usually found in a young male not yet 1 year old, some males however keep their pink cere's throughout adulthood, like Albino's. Here are some pictures of what a male Budgie's cere looks like.




Moving on to female Budgies, before reaching maturity they tend to have blue noses with white around the nostrils. That is how you can tell a female apart from a male while they're young. Any cere that has white around the nostrils is a female, whether the nose is pink or blue. Females can also have all white ceres, and of course the brown or tan cere. If a female's cere is crusty and brown, she's mature and ready to mate. Here are some pictures of females.



This concludes our Budgie sexing lesson! Pictures will be updated soon!

Thanks for posting this Liz- it is such a help to many people. Even though I don't have a budgie, I still need to learn how to sex them!

We were at the pet store just the other day to get supplies & we went to the Budgie area to see the babies. They were very young babies. A lot had almost 'red' ceres & I'd say they were the males. The females all had bluish ceres with a lot of white around the nostrils.
In the mixed cages the males also looked bigger.

It was really hard not to bring home a pal for Laker.

Red is a different color, I'd say females in breeding season. Their ceres get reddish brown.

I know what you mean - but these Budgies were 'really' young babies. It isn't the a dark or bright red colour - should have thought to take a photo.

Like your intro, this web talks about how the females all have a white edge to their nostrils. They also talk about the cere being pink & plump in the males, at a very young age. I would have said it was purple-red rather than pink - but describing colour can be strange.
http://freespace.virgin.net/cobber.b...xingbabes.html

Ohhh ok, I see what you mean, so yes, definitely males. Thanks for the link.