#1216 · 🐦 birds

Yellow-collared Lovebird

🇳🇱 Zwartmaskeragapornis ·Agapornis personatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The yellow-collared lovebird ( Agapornis personatus ), also called masked lovebird or eye ring lovebird , is a monotypic species of bird of the lovebird genus in the parrot family Psittaculidae. They are native to northeast Tanzania and have been introduced to Burundi and Kenya.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,182iNaturalist observations
weight 3.6 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,182 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 4 g.
Scientifically named by Anton Reichenow in 1887 (139 years ago).