A. ROSEICOLLIS

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

Dark green, olive greem, pastel light green, pastel edged light green, suffused light green, lutino, cinnamons, fallow type1, fallow type 2, recessive pied, dominant pied and pallid.

MUTATIONS

	*Bady 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	Reduction eumelanine 80 à 90 %	Very faded sky blue	light grey	dark	red	light grey	A. recessive	Yellow body with green suffusion
*Ino-factor*	green	Reduction eumelanine 100 %	white	Pink coloured	Horn coloured	red	White	Sex-linked recessive	Bright yellow body
*Cinnamon*	green	Eumelanine is brown	blue	Pink coloured	dark	red	Brown	Sex-linked recessive	Green body with brownish undertone Red eyes at hatching - Dark brown eyes after 8 days
*Pallid*	green	Reduction eumelanine 60 %	Faded light blue	Pink coloured	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	Reduction 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	Almost completely green	unaffected	dark	Red	black	Sex-linked recessive	Body colour somewhat duller green - black and blue tail dots have disappeared

With my thanks to Wessel van der Veen.