Black-cheeked lovebird [1] ( Latin Agapornis nigrigenis ) is a bird of the parrot family.
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Content
Appearance
Very graceful parrot. The length of the body is 14 cm. Externally, it looks like a masked lovebird , but smaller in size, and its head is grayish in color. A distinctive feature of the mask lovebird is the presence of reddish-orange feathers in the upper part of the breast, and green feathers on top of the tail.
Spread
It lives in the southwest of Zambia .
Lifestyle
It is inhabited by deciduous forests . Eat grass seeds.
Notes
- ↑ Boehme RL , Flint V. Ye. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Under total. ed. Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang, "RUSSO", 1994. - p. 110. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
Literature
- Jerusalem I. Parrots and songbirds: types, content, training. - Rostov-on-Don: Vladis, 2001. - 320 with ISBN 5-94194-073-4