Sample Collection

To make the sexing process as simple and pain free as possible for your bird we recommend the submission of feathers for DNA extraction.

• • Feathers should always be plucked fresh, kept separate for each individual bird and can be posted by regular mail in paper envelopes.

• • We recommend for large birds (e.g. Psittcines) 2-3 feather plucked from the chest or breast of the bird and for smaller birds (e.g. Passerines) 2-3 tail or flight feathers.

• Ideally the feathers will display a small speck of blood at the tip of the calamus although this is not always visible.

Species Sexed

We have successfully sexed a wide variety of species but please check our species list before submission, if your species does not appear in the list we ask for additional control feathers from a known male and a known female bird to accompany the unknown feathers.

How to Order

Our Order form can be downloaded to the left and posted with your samples or completed electronically and submitted by email.