as inseparable, dwarf-parrots or love-birds mark bird-lovers and zoologist 9 types of the wax-beak-parrots from Africa and Madagascar with mainly green plumage and colorful-colored head and neck-part.
Way of life The inseparable carry its name with entitlement surely, because the pair-relationship is far more strongly than with many other birds developed with most of the types of these 12,5-17,5 cm long parrots. The love-birds move in pairs or in smaller troops of several pairs through Africa's open landscapes (exception): Grünköpfchen, and seeks after grass-seeds, fruits and also after grains. Different millet-types are especially popular. Mancherorts become larger flocks of these birds to the country-population's worry if they consume considerable quantities of the harvest.
Brood As the females of the Orangeköpfchen Nistmaterial carry also with some other Agapornis-Arten in the Bürzel and back-plumage into the nest. The 4 types with a white eye-ring (see below) and homogeneous drawing of the short one, at the corners of rounded off tail against it offers its Nistmaterial in the beak. That at all inseparable its in termite-constructions or tree-caves as well as in nests of other bird-types of aimed brood-caves with plant-material pads, a behavior uncommon for most parrots is. The nest usually consists of 3-6 white eggs and becomes, according to type deceased, for 23-25 days from the female alone incubates. Meanwhile, the male partner creates food along. The newly slipped boys first carry a thin white or reddish Dunenkleid, that gives way to a denser, gray Dunenpelz soon. After 5-7 weeks, the boys leave the nest; care is still taken of them by the alto-birds for 2 weeks, however, until they finally are completely independent. Some types of the love-birds pull up several yearly-broods in favorable brood-areas.
Grünköpfchen Only the 13 cm long Grünköpfchen (Agapornis swinderniana) from the rain-forests of Liberia, South-Cameroon and Gabon until North-Uganda does an exception from this. With both sexes of this inseparable, also the head-region is befiedert as far as on one slender black neck-tape and an underlying yellow bond green. As Grünköpfchen are single type of the type not to have on the market so far since they only keep themselves alive short period in captivity. One hardly knows also about the life in freedom with these dwarf-parrots. Grünköpfchen are not very frequent; usually one only sees it if small troops of these birds leave the high-forest, about in the undergrowth after food (fruits and mainly fig-seeds) and, to look for waters. Nests and nests of Grünköpfchen are unknown until now. Every evening, the birds appear on certain sleep-trees in small groups.
Orangeköpfchen The 12,5-14 cm of big Orangeköpfchen or actual inseparable, A. pullaria, adapted itself at culture-landscapes especially well in its home (Sierra Leone until southwest-Ethiopia, Uganda, northwest-Tanzania, northwest-Angola and São Tomé). In captivity, Orangeköpfchen only brood heavily since they normally dig its brood-caves in the nests of tree-termites.
Further types Some zoologist views the equally big Rußköpfchen, A. nigrigenis, the Pfirsichköpfchen or Nyassa-Unzertrennlichen, A. lilianae, and the Erdbeerköpfchen, A. fischeri, as subtypes of the 14,5-16 cm long tail or Maskenköpfchens, A. personata. The Brutareale this close relation manner lie densely together, doesn't overlap, however.
The rose-parrot or the Rosenköpfchen belong with 16-17,5 cm of total-length, A. roseicollis, from southwest-Angola and the southwestern Africa to the biggest inseparable. In contrast to other love-birds, these parrots breed mancherorts also in colonies.
The 12,5-14 cm long Grauköpfchen was on originally only Madagascar at home, A. cana. Meanwhile, it became the Canaries on Mauritius, Rodriguez, Seychelles as well as naturalized on Zansibar.
The 8 types of the inseparable let themselves (with exception of the Grünköpfchens) hold quite well in captivity and brood at spacious aviaries and good care of the öfteren. With some Nachzüchtungen, already color-variations developed through inbreeding.
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