Talk:Lovebird

egg

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)

My love bird cutie layed eggs and my 2 bird kiwi is still alive 43.231.30.41 (talk) 16:54, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

More Solid Info

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-faced lovebird. There is no yellow on wild-colored peach-faced lovebirds. http://www.http://animal-world.com/encyclo/birds/lovebirds/images/PeachfrontWBLov_Ac103.jpg is a picture of a juvenile wild-colored peach-faced lovebird.

Possible omnivore?

Just a question. My love bird Tico attacked and ate a brown anole that wandered into my room through the crack under the door when he was on my shoulder. He eyed it for a couple of seconds and then came down upon it like a hawk and literally caught it with his nails I've been putting off to cut, and with it squirming he started pecking at it and eating it. Tico was pulling off strips off meat, ignoring the distraction of the flopping tail that apperantly was the lizard's last hope, and when he was done with it (when I intervened) it was missing three legs, the right side of its chest, and some of its abdomin. And its tail. Picking up the mess was sick enough and I regret not taking pictures, but are love birds supposed to do that? Ace Combat Fanatic 00:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Damn, Ace. I could've gone the rest of my life and not missed that description. 65.107.167.200 21:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Lovebird are usually strict herbivores —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afarila (talk • contribs) 18:15, 20 January 2007

Both of the (peach faced) lovebirds that I've had experience with will occasionally eat meat if it's offered to them. Additionally, some websites state that lovebirds will eat insects such as crickets.--Beezhive 18:44, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't regret you not taking pictures. 68.178.82.136 15:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

My brother's lovebird eats at the dinner table, and he'll climb over to your plate, totally ignore the fruits and vegetables or salad, and will go right after the meat.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.241.29.196 (talk • contribs) 18:16, 20 April 2007

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Cannot be kept with other birds?

I heard somewhere that Lovebirds cannot be kept with other birds, as they will try to peck off their legs and hurt them. Is this citable and has anyone else ever heard this? Bilky asko 19:58, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I have heard that too about lovebirds in captivity, although I can not provide a reference. Snowman 08:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

For what it's worth, my love birds don't get along at all with any other birds, only amongst themselves are they friendly. And with people, of course.--24.85.171.109 04:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

needing cleanup?

I just reverted the article back to when some of the short phrases ("I love lovebirds!", "lovebirds will bite", etc.) were absent. Are most of these pet bird articles screwy like this, or is it just this one? I'm looking for a pet so I was browsing several cat/dog/bird articles and only some of the bird articles seem to share this problem...

Taxonomy

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

I think the 10-15 years estimate is a bit misleading - that really refers to them in the wild. In captivity, many owners report lovebirds living well into their 20s (IIRC, the greatest proven age is only about 18, but that's down to a lack of documentation more than anything else). Mine's at least 20 and I doubt that's anything special. -88.109.127.148 (talk) 08:19, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps this could be sourced and written into the article; however, in my booklet (isbn 0866224114) about pet lovebirds it says "A lovebird may attain ten years or more in age", which seems to be consistent with the current article. Is yours a record breaker? Snowman (talk) 08:53, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I have no documentary proof that he was around in 1988 so it wouldn't be counted, and in any case there's lots of anecdotal evidence of much older lovebirds. 20 is undoubtedly old, but other owners have reported ages of 25 and up, so he's a long way off that for the time being (I suppose 20 years for a lovebird is a bit like reaching, say, 95 for a human - a very good run, but not quite into the exceptional bracket). -88.109.127.148 (talk) 16:50, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Toenail clipping

The following line, "a single sandpaper perch can help keep nails trimmed, but nails should be clipped every 6-8 weeks" added by User:Truehistoryjvba strikes me as incorrect. As far as I am aware (from keeping several species of small psittacine, including a Peach-faced Lovebird), it only becomes necessary to clip the toenails *if* they have become overgrown because the bird is pretty sedentary and does not wear them down naturally against a roughened surface (such as a concrete or sandpaper perch, or the sand sheet on the bottom of the cage) or by its daily general climbing and scampering around the house. Even if a trim does become necessary - it certainly doesn't need to be done that frequently, in my experience (I had my lovebird for 15 years and as far as I can remember, the veterinarian clipped her nails about four times in her entire life). Most birds also keep their nails trim by chewing on them as part of their daily grooming ritual. Any thoughts, folks? --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 00:10, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

I have found two references from general parrot care books and amended the article. Snowman (talk) 18:16, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Incidentally, I do not think that parrots chew their nails to keep them short. Snowman (talk) 07:46, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

My Conure does. It's cute to watch. EDIT: But I suppose she might just do that as a habit and not as a part of general grooming. NM Thx1200 (talk)

sexually dimorphic

Why does the article say lovebirds are sexually dimorphic while in section Breeding it says "Determining Lovebird sex is difficult"? -- penubag  (talk) 08:54, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Three species out of nine are sexually dimorphic. Snowman (talk) 10:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Origin of genus name

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)

Diet section is unsourced and biased

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)

Lovebirds more types

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)

Aggression

About the agression part, I think that there must be added that especially females can be very agressive. From my own experience, when they have eggs, the female wont tolerate any 'intruders' even not their beloved human mate/handler. Thell keep their heads down, feathers up, and crawl away in dark places, and dangerously open their beaks, trying to bite. Males, on the other hand, wont show this behaviour. Something to do with hormones? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.92.16.61 (talk) 01:09, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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From my experience

Hi there is anything else 2A01:E34:EC17:90B0:C5E6:C1BB:9751:10D1 (talk) 16:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)