🪅 Lovebird Yellow Face Australia

Acolorful lovebird of East African savanna that is also found in woodland, cultivated areas, and towns. Note the green back, the broad yellow collar, the orange face, and the red bill. The flight is fast and direct, on twitching wingbeats. Usually found in flocks that can be quite large. Similar to Yellow-collared Lovebird, but easily separated by the orange rather than black head. eKk3Dj. Yellow Face Fischer and Masked LovebirdI am very fortunate to be a very close friend and neighbor of the creator of this new mutation Felix Del was able to witness from day to the present time the whole process,as a matter of fact a long one to develop this mutation . Now available in so many colors. What an experience for me to be able to witness it. Matilda above, left is a green series Australian cinnamon hen. Her mate to Matilda’s right is an orange-faced lutino. Because these are both sex-linked mutations, I will know by the color of their babies what their sex is. All the Australian cinnamon babies will be males and all the lutino babies will be hens. Foreground Australian Cinnamon hen Australian cinnamon birds have ruby-colored eyes this can fade quite a bit as they mature, but is very distinctive in babies. Left Australian cinnamon hen; Right Orangefaced Lutino Male The lutino is a red-eyed mutation. The orange-faced mutation is STILL part of the peachfaced lovebird species – it is only a color mutation of that species. Matilda’s mask has still not completely colored out. She is about 7 months old here. Now the above birds are what are called “green series” mutations. If you have these same mutations in “blue series” mutations, they express themselves different, per the pictures below. Sydney below is a blue series Australian cinnamon. She doesn’t have any color in the face. The color you see the slight orange is just some color that came off her swing food coloring. Below is another photo of Sydney, the blue series Australian cinnamon hen. She is a baby in these three photographs less than 3 months old and her color has not fully developed. Blue series cinnamon Blue series cinnamon lovebird Sydney at 3 months Normal Peachfaced Lovebird. Agapornis roseicollis Size 160mm The Peachfaced Lovebird is a sexually monomorphic species males and females lookalike. DNA or Surgical sexing is required to identify Males and Females with 100% accuracy The Overall colour is green , with the wings a shade darker a Red forehead , becoming deep pink on the chest, the rump is a sky blue, beak is a horn colour and a white eye ring. In the wild the birds inhabit arid area’s, stretching from Southwest Angola, Namiba and into Northwest South Africa. They are found in Broadleaf woodland, semi desert and mountain area’s within close proximity to permanent water. They feed mainly on seeds and berries. At times they are known to raid cultivated crops Millet and as a result are regarded as agricultural pests in rural area’s. Feral populations occur in some countries notably Arizona in the USA. The most popular of the lovebird species, in Australia and worldwide with more than 70 colour mutations occurring in the natural red face also yellow faced and white faced mutations. A pure wild type – normal is now considered rare in Australia. Photo credit Gavin Goodhart

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