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Male courting a male?!

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Kokos
Hi guys!
I've had my boy Kokos for a year now and he's aprox. 1 year and 3 months old. I bought another budgie, 3 months old, this weekend and they get along pretty well already. The new one, Mango, is pretty young but I'm almost 100% sure its a male. Here's where my questioning begins.

Kokos has been head bobbing and 'courting' Mango for two days, always resulting in him feeding mango. At first I thought 'well good they're friends' but then I started reading online, and I can't find anything of males courting other males this way. Could it be my lil Mango's a girl after all?
Is this normal if Mango's a boy?
Very curious :) :clearwing 2::blue pied:
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aluz
From the photos it does seem that you have two budgie boys.
I'm not seeing any white colour on your Mango's cere, from the photo I'm seeing the typical colours found on the cere of a young male budgie, a uniform pinkish coloured cere.

The behaviour exhibited by your budgies is perfectly normal, this isn't something only seen on a male/female pair.
Budgies will head bob, feed and preen each other regardless of their genders, two females can also display this same affection.
This is something budgies will normally do when they are bonded and have a good friendship with their mates.
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