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- Agapornis pullarius
Identification
15 cm.
Green throat, orange cheeks, back of head and forehead, black wing, blue tail.
Females have orange head and yellow-green tails.
Distribution
Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 2 subspecies[1]
- A. p. pullarius:
- A. p. ugandae;;:
- Ethiopia to Uganda, extreme eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania
Habitat
Savanna, forest edges.
Behaviour
They build their nests in termite mounds or the earth.
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Red-headed Lovebird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-headed_Lovebird
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1