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 ...

Some just pass through on migration. Others have come to call Arizona home year-round, like the Canadian goose and rosy-faced lovebird. Others are perfectly adapted to our Sonoran desert like the ...

When Corbo and his colleagues looked at another kind of parrot called the rosy-faced lovebird, they found the enzyme at work there, too, doing the same thing. They suspect it's true in a wide ...

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 ...

The most popular type of lovebirds to have as pets are peach-faced lovebirds. These birds have a mix of yellow, green, and blue feathers and are known for their bright pink faces. Black-cheeked ...

Corbo and colleagues turned to the dusky lory (Pseudeos fuscata), a parrot species that comes in red and yellow varieties, and rosy-faced lovebirds, (Agapornis roseicollis) which have both red and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.