Making pysanky with cockatiel eggs was my first attempt at making pysanky on such small (less than 1" long) eggs. A friend of mine, Pam Espinoza, saved her bird’s eggs for me. The shell is different from a hen’s egg, glossier, and the dyes sometimes do not take as vividly. The result is generally a much more muted pysanka. The eggs are also much more fragile, breaking very easily, and making wax removal a bit problematic.
The photograph above illustrates, quite vividly, the difference in size between a cockatiel egg and a regular hen’s egg.
In the pysanky below, I've used traditional patterns, but in miniature. I’ve since made more pysanky with small eggs; you can see some of them here, on my UP 2007 page.