Agapornis fischeri

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,293 meters (0 to 4,242 feet).[1]

Ecology: It inhabits semi-arid woodland with Acacia, Adansonia, and Commiphora at 1,100-2,200 m , deforested grassland, cultivation with remnant Adansonia and Borassus palm savanna2,3,5. In the Serengeti, it is present in all types of woodland5. Riverine forest dominated by Ficus, Ziziphus, Tamarindus, Aphania, Garcinia and Eckbergia is an important dry season habitat . The species is mostly granivorous, taking seeds from seedheads and off the ground . It also takes Acacia seeds directly from trees . It attends waterholes and other types of surface water daily to drink. Breeding takes place from January to April and in June and July. Most nests are situated 2-15 m above the ground in holes and cracks in dead trees or dead branches on living trees, but possibly sometimes in cliffs as well. Its clutch-size in captivity is three to eight eggs , with an incubation period of c.23 days and fledging period of 38 days5.

[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Reichenow, A. Neue Wirbelthiere des Zoologischen Museums in Berlin. Zool. Anz. 10: 369- 372., 1887.

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Agapornis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. cana (Gray-Headed Lovebird) · A. cana cana (Grey-Headed Lovebird) · (Gray-Headed Lovebird) · A. canus canus (Gray-Headed Lovebird) · A. fischeri (FischerÌs Lovebird) · A. lilianae (LilianÌs Lovebird) · A. nigrigenis (Black-Cheeked Lovebird) · A. personata (Emerald-Collared Parakeet) · A. personata personata (Yellow-Collared Lovebird) · A. personatus (Yellow-Collared Lovebird) · A. pullaria (Red-Headed Lovebird) · A. pullaria pullaria (Red-Headed Lovebird) · A. pullarius (Red-Headed Lovebird) · A. pullarius pullarius (Red-Headed Lovebird) · A. roseicollis (Peach-Faced Lovebird) · A. roseicollis roseicollis (Peach-Faced Lovebird) · A. swinderniana (Black-Collared Lovebird) · A. swindernianus (Black-Collared Lovebird) · A. swindernianus swindernianus (Black-Collared Lovebird) · A. taranta (Black-Winged Lovebird) · A. taranta taranta (Black-Winged Lovebird)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 81 1937 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 128, p. 170, p. 24, index, p. 397-413, page 397.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 511.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 794.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 255.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 128, p. 150, p. 189, p. 56, p. 102, p. 209, p. 165, p. 197, p. 90.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 146, p. 667.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 40, p. 582.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 151, p. 157, p. 168.
• Sex and internal secretions. Contributors: A. Albert [and others] Foreword by George W. Corner. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1961. url p. 1144, p. 1518.
• Significant Trade in Wildlife: a review of selected species in CITES Appendix II. Volume 3, Birds IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 10.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 29, p. 43, p. 52.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url p. 49.
• The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Cong by Sir Harry Johnston. .. With 506 illustrations from drawings and photographs by the author and others, 48 full-page coloured plates by the author and 9 maps by J.G. Bartholomew and the author. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1902. url p. 431.
• The odyssey of an animal collector / Introd. by G. M. Vevers. New York: Longmans, Green, 1954 [c1953] url p. 360.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 92.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2008. Agapornis fischeri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Ornithology Collection
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10603
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177621
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13841305
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177621
• IUCN ID: 189218
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1534

Footnotes

1. Mean = 989.000 meters (3,244.751 feet), Standard Deviation = 519.430 based on 8 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2008. Agapornis fischeri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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