Masked Lovebird Information |
Agapornis personata
General:
A member of the eye-ring species of Lovebirds, the primary color is green, the mask is black they have a yellow chest and neck, the beak is red. They are native to Northeast Tanzania. Although Masked Lovebirds can be timid hand fed babies are easy to tame and can be a loyal companion. Lovebirds are colony birds and don't like being a lone, they are best kept in pairs unless you can give them at least a few hours a day of company and companionship.
Housing:
Lovebirds are very active and require space to fly, a cage of size at least 26X26X16 but larger is better, there are nice 30X30X36 cages on the market at very reasonable rates. They need plenty of toys and like to chew so make sure to get toys with wood parts. We buy all our toys from Chew Too Toys in Andover Minnesota. We use water bottles but still provide a dish of water so they can take a bath.
Diet:
We feed all our Lovebirds a Parakeet seed mix with plenty of grains, we add Pretty Bird Mini Breeder Select pellets to the seed 50/50. We feed Natural Gold Small pellets in a seperate dish. We also feed fresh vegetables on a daily basis. We provide both a mineral block and cuttle bones .
Color mutations:
Masked Lovebirds come in Blue, Violet, Pastel, Dark-factor, Fallow and Ino (Lutino, Albino). The mutations we breed are shown below.
More in depth information on Masked Lovebird mutations can be found here The official MUTAVI Agapornis Page |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 02 February 2008 )
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This is a normal Green Masked Lovebird. This bird is a male and is split to Blue. He is paired with Pastel Violet Masked Lovebird female that has one dark factor. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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This is a Blue masked Lovebird female. She is paired with a double dark factor Violet Masked Lovebird. Their offspring all have one dark factor so we get Violet with one dark (Violet shows better with a dark factor) and Cobalt Blue Masked Lovebirds. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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D Pastel (Dilute) Blue Masked Lovebird |
This bird is a single dark factor Pastel (dilute) Blue Masked Lovebird. This is a young bird, the beak will turn to a flesh color when it gets older. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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D Pastel (Dilute) Blue / Albino Masked Lovebird |
This bird is a male single dark factor Pastel split Albino Masked Lovebird. With the Pastel birds you can tell that they are split Albino by the white flight feathers. This bird is paired with an Albino Masked Lovebird. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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DD Pastel (Dilute) Blue / Albino Masked Lovebird |
This bird is a female Double Dark split to Albino Masked Lovebird. She is a very light Brown with white flight feathers. She is paired with a Pastel split to Albino Masked Lovebird. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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D Pastel (Dilute) Blue Violet Masked Lovebird |
This bird is a young female Single Dark Pastel Violet Masked Lovebird she is paired with a Violet split to Pastel Masked Lovebird that has no dark factor. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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This bird is a Violet Masked Lovebird, a female she has one dark factor and is split for Pastel. She is paired with is single dark factor Pastel Masked Lovebird. They produce double dark Blue and Pastels, Single dark Pastel and Single dark Pastel Violet and Single dark Violets. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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This bird is an Albino Masked Lovebird. She is all white with red eyes a flesh colored beak and pink feet, she is paired with a single dark Pastel split to albino male. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 January 2008 )
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