know the fischer love bird information

When you hear word love bird a two small Green parrot in pair every has this picture in mind. It is a small beautiful bird with different colour and varieties.

Fischer’s Lovebirds, Agapornis Fischeri, both cocks and hens show identical. Fischer’s Love Birds are Green in colour, living being dark on the wing and reverse, and lighter on the underparts. The forehead is bright orange-red, suffuse to dark olive, with cheeks and gullet a paler orange. The rump and high tail covert are violet blue. The bill is coral red, the cere and bare skin roughly the eye is white and the feet are fair gray.

They are very vocal birds, certain times of the day they are chirping, so they are a nuisance for neighbours who don’t like voice.

Food : Fischer love bird eat a different types of food. they eating millet, maize corn, apple, cabbage, cucumber, carrot, corriander leaves, wheat, sunflower seeds.

Breeding :

The breeding season is January through april and june through july. The nest is in a hole in a tree 2 to 15 metres above the ground. The eggs are while and there are usually four or five in a clutch, but minium three and miximum eight eggs they can given. Female incubates the eggs for 23 days,and the chicks come  out from the nest 38-42 days after hatching.  

NestBox : 

They need a wooden nest box, 17 x 20 x 25 cm. Give them a little brushwood or dried grass, paper chips/strips for bedding, in the cage. 

In the wild, Fischer’s lovebirds are found on the inland plateaus of northern Tanzania. In captivity, they breed freely and have been bred in large colonies and aviary cages and breeding cage.

Health Problems :  Many Captive Fischer love birds have feather plucking problems, if they get bored or stressed. This is more likely to happen with single bird than those kept in pairs or groups. They are in groups they can playing with each other not bored. To stop this thing give them plenty of toys to play and provide them more opportunity to entertainment offer them coconut leaves they enjoy to build their nest and play with them.