{"id":47685,"date":"2013-09-04T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/fischers-lovebird-agapornis-fischeri-nt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:16:24","slug":"fischers-lovebird-agapornis-fischeri-nt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/nt-near-threatened\/fischers-lovebird-agapornis-fischeri-nt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fischer’s Lovebird Agapornis fischeri"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the most commonly traded wild bird in the world in 1987 and was the most popular wild-caught parrot imported into the then European Economic Community, accounting for c.80% of the Psittacine exports from Tanzania (RSPB 1991). Legal trapping for export has now been halted, but the population is still much lower than it was, and trade could re-start (Moyer 1995). The species has hybridised with Yellow-collared Lovebird A. personata in the wild, but not within the species’s natural range (there is range overlap but A. fischeri appears to be a non-breeding visitor to A. personata habitat [N. Baker in litt. 1999, Morton and Bhatia 1992]) so this is unlikely to pose a threat.<\/p>\n

Reference : \u00a0Fischer’s Lovebird Agapornis fischeri <\/p>\n\n