uh oh...

[asterroc]

I think Gabe's a girl.

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[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

her name is really Gabrielle, of course.

how did you find out? did she start laying eggs?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Follow the link, lazy-beans!

And yeah, I'm undecided about the name if Gabe really really is a girl. I could change it to Gabrielle and Gabby as the nickname, but that defeats the original reason for giving her that name. We'll see.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

You can't, like, take a gander at the private bits? or are birds all different than mammals in that regard?

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

I think you should leave the name as-is. Gabe has no peers to reinforce the societal expectation of Gabe being a male's name, so it really doesn't matter. Why not de-sex the name a little? I see no harm it letting Gabe extend to females. It happened to Pat, Sam, and Chris.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

link? i saw no link! ooh, there's a link...

you could still call her Gabe! it's just short for Gabrielle now! like Sam doesn't always have to be short for Samuel!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Nope, birds do not have external genetalia, they have a cloaca that serves as the orifice for not only solid and liquid waste, but also reproduction. Many species are sexually dimorphic, and in their natural coloring in the wild cockatiels are, but Gabe's a popular (and highly inbred) color mutation called lutino, and they're only barely dimorphic.

I'm inclined to keep Gabe's name the same regardless of gender. I may be getting a DNA sex test done next time I'm at the vet. For the most part, knowing Gabe's gender is an interest thing, but if she's female, it's good to know about potential egg-laying problems.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Verona was "George" for the first twelve years of her life (before we adopted her.