Rosy-cheeked lovebird

Body length 17 cm, wing 10 cm; weight 40-60 g. The coloring is very beautiful, with intense green tones, the back of the back with a blue tint. The throat and cheeks are pink, the forehead is bright red, the beak is straw-yellow. The middle tail feathers are green, the lateral ones are red with wide black stripes and narrow green ones in the end part, the tail tail feathers are bright blue. Young chicks have brown-black beaks with a bright tip. The color is missing red. Females are slightly larger than males , less brightly colored.

It inhabits Angola , Namibia and South Africa.

They inhabit dry areas, but always keep places with water sources. They live in packs, and during nesting they break up into pairs and occupy a hollow or nest of sparrows or weavers under the nest of a hollow or a nest. They nest in human dwellings - in the walls of huts and under the roofs of houses.

The female suits the nest. She also carries nesting material, stuffing it into feathers nadhvostiya. It often happens that during one “flight” the female bears on herself 6–8 pieces of bark, tightly pressing their noghvostiya with their feathers. In the clutch there are from 3 to 6 white eggs . The female incubates the clutch for 21–23 days. Young fly out of the nest at the age of 5-6 weeks. The male feeds them for about two weeks, and the female prepares for the next laying. Young chicks leaving the nest fly well already, and after 12-15 days they become completely independent. The color of young birds is dimmer, the beak is gray-black. They are completely transferred at the age of 6-8 months.

The most common of this kind of species among fans of the cellular content of parrots. Usually they, like all lovebirds, are kept in pairs, but with a single content, pink-cheeked lovebirds quickly become tame and can learn to speak a few words. For a long time, lovebirds were considered incapable of learning, but in recent years there have been increasing reports of talking lovebirds.

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  Green and yellow subspecies of lovebirds.

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  Sexual male.

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