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How can you tell if a Parakeet is a boy or a girl?

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this is how you will tell if your parakeet is a boy or a girl female parakeets have Ceres which is the nose on top of there beak and if it is the color
Tan/Brown (in breeding season) or Pink than it is female
purple/light blue/dark blue or white (under a year old) than it is male :)
It all depends on how old and what time a year it is but other than that you can tell the difference between a male and a female!

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