PHOENIX – Rosy-faced lovebirds bring a splash of color to the Arizona desert, with neon green feathers and vibrant peach faces. The non-native birds, which first appeared in Arizona about 40 ...

A rosy-faced lovebird feeds a Fischer's lovebird at the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland. Guérin Nicolas via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 “When one bird is passing food to the other, beak to beak ...

By Carolyn Wilke Rosy-faced lovebirds are charismatic, petite parrots. They also aren’t afraid to use their heads — literally — to get around an awkward situation. “They’re these ...

So Granatosky and colleagues put four rosy-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis) to the test. Birds placed on a suspended bar just 2.5 millimeters in diameter realized that the best way to ...

Using high-speed video analysis, researchers found that this movement technique – dubbed “beakiation” – seen in the rosy-faced lovebird uses same forces as seen in the forearms of primates ...

In their project, reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group conducted experiments with rosy-faced lovebirds to learn more about how they use their heads to move around on limbs.