How to tell if canary is a male or a female?
A visitor, Sabrina, emailed this question:
“HOW DO YOU TELL IF THE CANARY IS FEMALE OR MALE? I BOUGHT A YELLOW CANARY AND IT’S HARD TO TELL IF IT’S A BOY OR GIRL. SHE DOESN’T SING LIKE A MALE DOES.”
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Hi, Sabrina!
Usually, the males sing and not the females. However, we’ve had females that sound like they were singing. They would trill and tweet kind of like a male canary. It’s really difficult to tell a male from a female until breeding season.
To check, and if you’re feeling brave enough to hold your canary, gently blow on its vent to move the feathers so you can see it’s underbelly. The male will have a penis like a very small swelling next to the vent. If the vent is smooth and round, torpedo-shaped, then it is female.
More experienced breeders can tell just by looking at their birds if they have other canaries of same type and colour to compare it to. It may be more difficult to sex younger canaries. Hope this helps!
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7 Responses so far
April 24th, 2009
6:32 am
if you went to buy a male canary that sings and bought home a female canary, can you bring it back to exchange it for a male? or are you just stuck with it after paying so much money for it. also if the canary is young first should they have a band on it’s leg to say when it was born and second how long does it take a young canary to sing?
July 28th, 2009
5:21 pm
we thought our canary was a boy because he sings but… he is building nests and nesting in his food dish but he is not laying eggs, I though he was sick but was he was nesting soo… is he okay??
September 6th, 2009
10:42 am
i whant to breed bronz canarys exclusively but can not find detail on the cenetics and photos of good examples
September 17th, 2009
9:08 pm
Saya masih belun tahu perbedaan burung kenari jantan dan betina.
bagai mana ciri ciri burung kenari jantan kalau dilihat dalam bentuk tubuhnya?
December 23rd, 2009
12:08 pm
its a nice website and i am Dr.of vet medicine and i have a clinic for cage birds. i ask if you can help me
March 20th, 2010
1:13 am
how I do tell a male from framile????????
June 29th, 2010
10:52 am
i have two canarys one is yellow with white and its a male and i have a yellow with brown female canary.
Every time when the male wants to mate the female it flys away WHAT should I DO????…..
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