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Peach  Face
Lovebirds

Lovebirds... are cute little bundles of  joy. They have the
full  personality  of  parrots, while being easy  to house because 
of  their  size.   Lovebirds  are  little  clowns,  playing for  hours
at  a  time.  


They  love  to  hang  from  toys,  spin  them  around,  and
dance  on  your  shoulder.   Watch  out  for  your  buttons!  They
love  to  pull  them  off  your  shirts!  They  love  to  snuggle
and  preen.   Many  people  believe  that  lovebirds  must 
be  kept  in  pairs  because  of  their  loving  nature. 


A  single  Lovebird...
  makes  a  better  pet,  because  it 
bonds  to  you  rather  than  to  another  Lovebird.   While  it 
is  easy to  keep  a  pair  of  Lovebirds  tame,  if  you  plan
on  spending  lots  of  time  with  your  bird  you  can  keep
it  alone.


However,  if  you  work  long  hours  and  don't  think
you'll  have  a  lot  of  time  for  your  lovebird, it  is  better
to  get  him  a  companion.   This  will  keep  your  Lovebirds 
happy and  prevent  boredom.   It  is  important  to  realize,
that  even  though  Lovebirds  are  a  small  parrot,  they 
have  the  intelligence  and  abilities, of  some  of  the 
largest  parrots.


They  can  amaze  you... 
with  their  ability  to  escape from
their  own  cages (you  can  put  clips on  the  cage  doors,
to  keep  them  in, and  sometimes,  they  even  figure  out
how  to  open  those!),  they  are  strong  bonders  and  enjoy
exerting  their  playful  personality.  They  can  learn  to  mimic  sounds  and  speech,  if  taught  at  a  young  age.

 

 

 Nine Species of Lovebirds

 


Lovebirds,  Agapornis,  and  African  Lovebirds...
are 
terms,  that  can  refer  to  nine  different  species of 
Lovebird  Parrots.  Peach-faced  Lovebirds  are  sometimes
named  by  their  color  mutations:  Pied  Lovebirds, Violet Lovebirds,  Dutch  Blue  Lovebirds,  normal  Peach-face
Lovebirds,  Orange-face  Lovebirds, and  mauve  Lovebirds,
to  name  a  few.

 

These  Lovebirds...  all  belong  to  the  species
Agapornis  Roseicollis.  Fischer's  Lovebirds  and  Masked Lovebirds  are  different  species of  Lovebirds (Agapornis Personata  Fischeri  and  Agapornis  Personata  Personata, respectively)  and  should  not  be  bred  with  Peach-faced
(A.  Roseicollis)  Lovebirds.

Inter-species  breeding...  sometimes  results  in  hybrids,
(that  is,  Lovebirds,  that  cannot  reproduce), and  when  it  can't 
reproduce,  the  consequence  is  pollution of  the  pure  gene 
pool  for  these  various  species  of  Lovebirds.

Responsible  breeders...  do  not  inter-breed  different 
species, especially  since  we  can  no  longer  import  new,
fresh  stock,  from  the  wild!

 

Some  people  have  bred...  these  crossed-species 
Lovebirds  and  they  often  are  very  strange  creatures.  
They  tend  to  have very  skittish  personalities, (the most
terrified  Lovebirds,  that  have  been  encountered were  a
cross  between  a  Peach-face and  a Fischer's. All  the 
Lovebird  babies...  were  excessively  nervous).


Color  mutations...
 occur  within  the  same  species  of
Lovebirds  and  it  is  not  necessary  to  interbreed  species,
to  get  these  new  colors.

 

 

There  are  several  other  species...  of  Lovebirds,  commonly
known  as  Black-cheeked  Lovebirds,  Black-collared Lovebirds  (Agapornis  Swindernia),  Madagascar  Lovebirds (Agapornis  Cana),  Nyasa  Lovebirds  (A.  Lilianae),  Abyssian lovebirds  (Agapornis  Taranta),  and  Red-Faced  Lovebirds (Agapornis  Pullaria).
 


These  species...
 are  relatively  rare  in  American  "Aviculture" (although  the  Black-cheek   Lovebird  is  more  common
than  the  others).    The  breeding  of  Madagascar  Lovebirds,
should  only  be  attempted,  by  very  experienced  Lovebird breeders,  as  they  are  very  delicate  and  could  easily
disappear  in  Aviculture.


      

 

 


 

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