Common colors include gray, cinnamon and lutino. In the wild, cockatiels only come in gray which we call the normal grays. Rarer colors mutations include fallow, silver, yellowface and the whiteface. Mutation are the plenty, to numerous we us to list them all. Cockatiels are dimorphic, meaning that there is a difference in coloring between adult males and females.
Females keep their striped tail feathers.
It's a good idea to choose only hand fed babies as a pet. Cockatiels have a lower price than most parrots. The rarer the mutation the higher the cost. Most male cockatiels whistle, and some learn to say a few words I have never had a female cockatiel talk, however I have heard that they do, it makes me wonder if their female is really and male. Cockatiels are among the most popular of pet birds and deserve that popularity because of their nature and elegant beauty.