Telling the sex of your budgie is done by the cere (fleshy part above the beak)

You will find here pictures of males and females and how to tell them apart.

Young budgies under the age of 4months old will have a purplish pink coloured cere until after its first molt so they will look like females until then.

 Baby Budgie has a purplish pink cere and has barring on the crown of the head adults lose the barring.

 Female.

 Female.

 Male And Female notice how the females cere has gone a very dark crusty brown this shows that she is in breeding condition and will soon mate and lay eggs.

 Male and Female the male has a blue cere and blue teardrops on the cheeks and the female has a cream coloured cere and grey teardrops on the cheeks.