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Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis

Status.

Category E*

Native Range

Africa. Resident in Angola, Namibia and Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Conservation Status

Least Concern

British Occurrence

NBN atlas has 69 records as at end 2024. Map Here.

A commonly-kept cagebird and escapes can turn up anywhere. No evidence of long-term survival in the wild but it has been recorded breeding; the last documented occasion being in 2006 in Lothian. Nottinghamshire had a lovebird sp. in a Keyworth garden in March 2000 just after several had escaped from an aviary about a mile away. Landguard Bird Obs. Suffolk recorded a Rosy-faced in June 1998.

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Sources

Reece et. al. The Birds of Nottinghamshire 2019.

https://www.lbo.org.uk/systematic-lists/systematic-list-of-escapes/