Parrots (Psittacidae)
Red-headed Lovebird (Agapornis pullarius) - HBW 4, p. 409
French: Inséparable à tête rouge
German: Orangeköpfchen
Spanish: Inseparable Carirrojo
Other common names: Red-faced Lovebird
Taxonomy: Psittacus pullarius Linnaeus, 1758, Asia, Ethiopia; error = Ghana.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pullarius (Linnaeus, 1758) - patchily in Guinea, Sierra Leone and N Ivory Coast, and from Ghana E to Sudan and S into W Zaire and NW Angola, mainly N of Congo basin (southern boundaries unclear); also São Tomé.
- ugandae Neumann, 1908 - E Zaire to W Ethiopia, W Kenya and NW Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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immature bird Locality Lukaya, Uganda (ssp ugandae)
Daniêl Jimenez 12 September 2010 2 years ago 20 sec 3.8 -
eating figs Locality Lukaya, Uganda (ssp ugandae)
Daniêl Jimenez 12 September 2010 2 years ago 44 sec 3.8 -
A bird moving in a tree and flying away Locality Rutembe, Entebbe, Uganda (ssp ugandae)
Josep del Hoyo 15 September 2006 5 years ago 21 sec 3.3 -
Head shot of single bird in canopy, followed by slow motion clip of 2 birds before flying away Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (ssp pullarius)
mark sutton 6 December 2010 2 years ago 23 sec 2.8
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female
Locality Uganda
ConservationIsGreat 1 April 2008 3 years ago 3.7 -
Adult male.
Locality Antwerp Zoo, Antwerp Province, Belgium
Tomasz Doroń 30 June 2009 1 year ago 3.5
- No sound recordings available yet
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