Masked lovebird
| Masked lovebird | lovebird personatus |
| hurongwa | Parrots |
| mhuri | Parrots |
| rudzi | Lovebirds |
Kuonekwa
Idiki diki-muswe parrot ine muviri kureba 14,5 cm uye huremu hunosvika 50 g. Kureba kwemuswe ndeye 4 cm. Zvose zvepabonde zvine mavara akafanana - ruvara rukuru rwemuviri rwakasvibirira, pane maski ane tsvuku-dema pamusoro, chifuva chine yellow-orange, rump muorivhi. Muromo muhombe, mutsvuku. Wakisi yakareruka. Mhete yeperiorbital yakashama uye yakachena. Maziso ane brown, paws igrey-blue. Madzimai akati kurei pane varume, vane musoro wakatenderedzwa.
Hupenyu hunotarisirwa nekutarisirwa kwakakodzera makore 18 - 20.
Habitat uye hupenyu mune zvakasikwa
Mhuka iyi yakatanga kurondedzerwa muna 1887. Mhuka idzi dzinodzivirirwa asi hadzina njodzi. Huwandu hwevanhu hwakagadzikana.
Vanogara muZambia, Tanzania, Kenya neMozambique mumapoka evanhu vanosvika makumi mana. Dzinoda kugarira pamuakasia nemabaobabs, kusiri kure nemvura mumasavanna.
Shiri dzerudo dzakafukidzwa dzinodya mhodzi dzemiti yemusango, zviyo uye michero.
Kubereka
Nguva yekuisa matendere inowira panguva yakaoma (Kurume-Kubvumbi naChikumi-Chikunguru). Dzinogara mumapoka mumakomba emiti iri yoga kana kuti tumiti tuduku. Kazhinji dendere rinovakwa nehadzi, iro rinobva rakandira mazai machena 4-6. Iyo incubation nguva ndeye 20 - 26 mazuva. Manhiyo anochochonya asina zvaanogona kuita, akavharirwa pasi. Vanosiya buri pazera remavhiki matanhatu. Zvisinei, kwenguva yakati (anenge mavhiki maviri), vabereki vanovapa zvokudya.
Muchisikigo, kune asiri-asina mbereko mahybrids pakati peakafukidzwa neshiri dzerudo dzeFisher.
