Masked Lovebird

Agapornis personata


 

The Masked Lovebird has a full black or chocolate-brown head with white eye-rings and a red bill. In the wild in East Africa it is generally green-bodied with a yellow collar, nape and chest. In captivity, several colours have been bred.

   
   
Other Lovebirds:  
Lovebird/Parrot index
Peach-faced Masked x Peach-faced hybrid Fischer's Black-cheeked  
         
 

Masked x Peach-faced hybrid Lovebird

 


 

If housed together in captivity, lovebird species will interbreed and create hybrids. In the wild, their territories do not overlap.

The characteristics of the Peach-faced are dominant in this hybrid, with a darkened face (but not head), orange beak and slightly wider eye-ring from the Masked parent.