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Aren't my birds cute? :) --Fennec 18:43, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Yeah. But of course, cute bird is a bit of a redundancy. I love parrots. I have a pair of peach-faces myself. Well not a pair exactly, one's a widower, the other an adopted spinster, and they don't get along at all, still, I have two of them. You might want to be careful about the feather-plucked one. We lost Perch's mate because he plucked her and even when we put a heat blanket and a towel arond their cage she froze to death.
--Quintucket 23:45, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I visited this page because tonight I was reminded of a peachfaced that unfortunately passed away a year ago - although she reached the respectable age of 13. I've decided not to have pets anymore because I don't think animals are supposed to be kept or caged, but to her I was quite attached.
Curious bird, always eyeing you and the thing you're occupied with at that moment - be it a book, a laptop, your digital camera or the TV's remote for that matter.
Cheeky, too. Anything that's paper is at risk of being reduced to strips because she's got a beak that's got to be put to use and so she shall, and she won't hesitate to land on the top of the magazine you're reading (and be her noisy self) if that gets you to pay attention to her.
And affectionate. For all the pirate cliches that there are (hehe) she still loved to sit on my shoulder and unintentionally deafen me with her cries.
I quite miss her.
--MiG 21:43, 07 July 2005 (CET)
My lovebird does this vomiting ritual every time I scratch him. I guess he's attracted to my finger...
I went to a relative's house when they were not home and they had a caged lovebird, which I did not know anything about. I started to stick my fingers in the cage and he would (affectionately?) nibble on the fingernails. Unfortunately, I kept doing it, and after a day or so of on-and-off torture the bird would attack my fingers on sight, even drawing blood on one occasion :)
Then when I realized it could be let out, I had a bit of trouble because it was perfectly friendly with roosting on my shoulder, climbing under my shirt and popping its head out as if it were under a blanket, trying to clean my teeth, nibbling on my earlobes for some reason, etc. But if I stuck out my hand, trying to get it to stand on my hand, it would simply attack and bite it.
While I have been typing this (everything up to this point has been recounting previous experiences with the bird), it has been biting my ear a lot. It climbed down my left arm and tried two bite two little moles on my arm. It got to my left hand, started biting the keys on the keyboard, then attacked my right hand, drawing blood again (and if it makes its way down my right arm to my right hand, it will attack my left hand). Also, sometime when it was on my left arm, it stuck its butt off the edge and pooped onto my knee, which I did not realize until I scratched that knee and felt something there.
As it is so mean to my fingers, it was hard to get it back into its cage, but I just now managed to do it, being fed up with its antics. It's a fun bird and I was laughing most of the time, but I'll wait until my relatives (the owners of the bird) get home tonight and I can watch them play with it. This is Sajt reporting live.
Hi. I have a black masked lovebird and he is a sweet bird. He can be a bit of a rascal sometimes but I think that only makes him more hilarious. When I get home from work he crawls down into my shirt and preens me while I do my chores.
hi i have one of these,he's kinda irritating when im on the computer.spat10 i like birds i want an african grey but it's expensive.spat10
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 —The preceding unsigned comment was 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)
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