Genetics / Species

The Lovebird Species

Peach Faced Lovebird (Agapornis Roseicollis)
Fischer Lovebird (Agapornis Fischeri)
Masked Lovebird (Agapornis Personata)
Black Cheeked Lovebird (Agapornis Nigrigenis)
Nyasa Lovebird (Agapornis lilianae)
Abyssinian Lovebird (Agapornis Taranta)
Red-faced Lovebird (Agapornis Pullarius)
Madagascar Lovebird (Agapornis Canus)
Swindern's Lovebird 


The Lovebird Genetics 

Peachfaced Mutations
Recessives

Blue, Whitefaced Blue, and Seagreen
Orange-faced
Fallow
American Yellow (Dilute) and Japanese Yellow (Imperial Golden Cherry)
Australian Recessive Pied (dark-eyed clear)
Sex-Linked Characteristics
Lutino, American Cinnamon, & Australian Cinnamon
Lacewing
Opaline
Partial Dominants
Dark Factor
Violet
Dominants
American Pied
Green
Other
Longfeather
Color Changes Which are not Genetically inherited
Red Suffusion



Mutations in the Masked, Fischer's, Black-Cheeked, and Nyasa
Specific mutations:
Blue
Lutino
Yellow (Dilute)
Dark Factor
Violet
Fallow
Pied