What are the physical differences between a Fischer's and Peachface Lovebird?

Question

I've tried looking it up online, but haven't been able to come up with anything. I noticed that the coloring is sometimes very close with all the mutations available. Is there a defeniate way to destinguish between the two?

Answer 1

The first two answers missed the obvious difference.
Fischer's are one of the "eye -ring" species of lovebirds and peach face are not. Fischer's have a very obvious wide band of white skin surrounding their eyes. Black masked are an eye ring species as well.

http://www.africanlovebirdsociety.com/species/eyering.htm

Answer 2

The color is about the only physcial way that you can tell. There are behavioral differences. One of them, I can't remember which at the moment as a nesting habit will try to tuck strips of paper or other nesting material into their wings to carry it back to the nest, I belive it is the fischer love bird. The other lovebird (peachfaced) i think just picks it up and carries it back.

I cant believe I actually remembered the difference between the two. I know that it isnt a phyiscal difference, but it is an interesting difference.

Answer 3

The fischer is considered an Eye ring where as the peach face is not. If you look closely at the eyes, the fischer will have a white eye ring.

Good Luck!

Answer 4

I also have a peach-face lovebird and that i too am wager of its intercourse. I examine someplace although that for the period of the journey that your lovebird chews paper into strips and places it in its tail and has not been in a pair previously or considered this completed that's a woman. women individuals try this instinctively. regrettably I have been given my chook secondhand so I dont know of its historic previous.

Answer 5

Actually it's quite easy. Peach faces have a color ontheir face that differs from the whole body. A fisher's always has a mixture of orange,green,red,and lime colors.

This is a Peach Face
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This is a Ficsher's
http://www.birdbreeders.com/images/logos/
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This is a masked

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