The story name is lovebird..!!
Lovebird is the common name for the genus Agapornis, a small group of parrots in the Old World parrot family Psittaculidae. Of the nine extant species in the genus, all are native to the African continent, with the grey-headed lovebird being native to the African island of Madagascar. Social and affectionate, the name comes from the parrots' strong, monogamous pair bonding and the long periods which paired birds spend sitting together. Lovebirds live in small flocks and eat fruit, vegetables, grasses, and seeds. Some species are kept as pets, and several coloured mutations have been selectively bred in aviculture. The average lifespan is 10 to 12 years.
Our lovebird recently laid an egg although its partner died over 6 months ago. Im wondering how long does the "pregnancy" or how long does the egg sit in the belly before being laid? are all eggs a bird? could it just be an unfurtle egg?
It's an infertile egg. An egg is produced in less than a day, think about birds laying a nest of eggs. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 19:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
This reads like a care guide on lovebirds rather than an encyclopedic entry. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not under the section Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. I think that the section on Agapornis in the wild is too small to be useful, it is missing info on range, conservation status, ect.
Also, the section on diet is very POV, not everyone feeds pellets. --Flurken 20:47, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
The first picture on the page isn't a peach-faced lovebird. It is a split lutino peach-birds
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Cannot be kept with other birds
Are lovebirds Psittacini? Should there be some classification between genus and family in the taxobox? Snowman 08:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Requesting an expert to explain (or correct) the taxonomy. Snowman (talk) 08:43, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Lifespan
Latest comment: 17 years ago
What is the origin of the genus name? Stonemason89 (talk) 14:53, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Sex of chicks: Whilst I realise that sexing of chicks is not easy for the layman, I am now with my pair into the seventh set of youngsters. The first three sets are all breeding with their new owners as I have watched them since hatching and have come to the conclusion (probably totally spurious - but seemingly accurate) that during the early stage of feeding the male parent seems always to feed the same chicks - they have all turned out to be female, whilst the female parent feeds those who have eventually become male. I have two chick at the moments - the smaller is being fed by the father and he refuses to feed the larger of the two and leaves that to the mum. This pattern is that which these two adults have been adopting since the first eggs hatched some three years ago. Am I kidding myself or is this possibly an early way of detecting which chicks are of which gender? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.109.131.231 (talk) 09:24, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have read many sources on the internet that have conflicting views on diet. A vet I trust said that either mostly pellets or mostly fresh food are both great and neither one is necessarily optimal as it depends on the individual bird's eating habits, likes, dislikes, etc. The only "bad" diet is one with mostly seed and junk. Now, I'm not updating the article with the opinion of just my one vet, obviously, lol, but I feel the current diet section is written from a POV and it is mostly definitely not sourced. I'm sure many would disagree that that a mostly (>90%) pellet diet is bad. I'm also sure that many would disagree that a mostly (>90%) fresh food diet is bad. The articles takes a 50/50-is-optimal approach. Not everybody believes that either. That's why I think the section is written poorly as is. I think it should take into account that there are varying opinions of optimal dietary health and SOURCE reliable articles that focus on the different dietary approaches from professionals avian researchers that are out there, while focusing on the fact that it's pretty well established that "mostly junk/seed" is the one diet that is pretty much universally seen as bad for bird health. My two cents. Thx1200 (talk) 21:14, 17 August 2010 (UTC
There are so many other types of lovebird eg dutch blue, red lovebird etc why only 5 here??? HunterZone (talk) 15:06, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Are you referring to the pictures on Rosy-faced_Lovebird#Mutations? I couldn't find references to specific colour varieties in this article. If so, I think that those are the only ones listed because we currently don't have photos of any of the others. If you have some images of your birds, and are willing to release them under CC/GFDL licenses, then by all means please do add them to the gallery... --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 20:26, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
No...my question is that like here on wikipedia there is an article about peach-face lovebird and then there is an aticle about masked face lovebird...but there is no article about lutino lovebird, dutch blue lovebird, Red Suffusion lovebird etc....so are these lovebirds another type or just another colour??? Shouldn't we make an article on them as well??? HunterZone (talk) 12:41, 17 December 2010 (UTC) Lutino,Dutch Blue ETC. Are Peach Face Mutations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.74.241 (talk) 07:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)