GENERAL INFORMATION

The Peach-faced Lovebird was discovered in 1793. He's an inhabitant of the South-western part of Africa and lives in flights of twenty to thirty birds. They often chase the rightfull occupants of the nests of the weaver birds, and use there nests to breed. In captivity, it's one of the easiest birds to breed. They have 4 to 6 eggs and the incubation period is 21 to 23 days.

There is a sub-specie, known as A. Catumbella. They live in Angole and where discovered in 1955.

DESCRIPTION

• 15 cm long

• Main colour is green

• The face is peach coloured, thought slightly darker on the crown and paler under the bill

• The rump is blue

• The bill is hom colored

• The feet are grey and the claws are grey to black

MUTATIONS

D(ark) green, D(ouble) D(ark) green, pastel green, pastel edged green, suffused green, lutino, cinnamons, fallow type1, fallow type 2, recessive pied, dominant pied and pallid.

 

Mutation	Body colour	Mutation	Rump	Legs	Claws	Mask	Flights	Mode of Inheritance	Colour details
Edged  Dilution	green	Reduction eumelanine 60 %	Faded sky blue	light grey	dark	Red	Grayish, darker edges	Autosomal recessive	Edged effect on the plumage of the wing deck
Suffused	green	Red. eumelanine 80 à 90 %	Very faded sky blue	light grey	dark	red	light grey	A. recessive	Yellow body with green suffusion
Ino-factor	green	Red. eumelanine 100 %	white	Pink  colored	Horn colored	red	White	Sex-linked recessive	Bright yellow body
Cinnamon	green	Eumelanine is brown	blue	Pink  colored	dark	red	Brown	Sex-linked recessive	Green body with brownish undertone.  Red eyes at hatching - Dark brown eyes after 8 days
Pallid	green	Red. eumelanine 60 %	Faded light blue	Pink   colored	dark	red	Light grey	Sex-linked recessive	Yellow body with slight green hue. Red eyes at hatching - Dark brown eyes after 8 days
Bronze  Fallow	green	eumelanine changed to  grey - brown	Dull blue	Bleached	dark	red	Grey - brown	A. recessive	Body paler green -- RED EYES - paler back of the head than cinnamon
Pale Fallow	green	Eumelanin changed to a lighter shade of grey-brown, than B. fallow	Dull blue	Pink	dark	red	White to    grey	A. recessive	Body yellow-green  --  RED EYES - Greenisch shade of the lower abdomen
Dominant  Pied	Green	Local absence of Eumelanine randomly spread	Sky blue	Variable	Variable	Red	Variable	A. dominant	Green body shows yellow or white areas
Recessive Pied	Green	Red. eumelanine 95 %	Sky blue	Variable	Variable	Red, may show a decrease in size.	Variable	A. recessive	Sometimes a light green shade at the upper rumps of the lower back. Split birds may be recognizable by a pied spot at the inner side of the thigh bones
Aqua	aqua	All psittacine reduced   50 %	Sky blue	unaffected	dark	Pale red	black	A. recessive	Colour between blue and green
Turquoise	Turquoise	All psittacine reduced 50 % dorsally, 80 - 90 % ventrally	Sky blue	unaffected	dark	reduction 90% - almost white	black	A. recessive	Dorsally as aqua  --  Ventrally almost blue
Orange Face	Green	Red psittacine changed into orange	Sky blue	unaffected	dark	Orange	black	A. recessive	Tail dots orange.
Pale Headed	Green	Red psittacine changed to light orange- pink	Sky blue	unaffected	dark	Light Orange-pink	black	A. dominant	Tail dots light orange pink
Opaline	Green	Psittacine extended to back of the head --  Melanin locally reduced	Sky blue	unaffected	dark	Red	black	Sex-linked recessive	Body colour somewhat duller green - black and blue tail dots have disappeared

With my special thanks to Wessel van der Veen.