Aloha,
We have a flock of parrot type birds that visit the feeder...
Help me ID my birds!
The photo's are a little out of focus...
Our flock has 7 birds usually, but sometimes we have many more.
All different combinations of colors - they are beautiful! I believe that they have now taken up residence in the garden. Any help with the type of bird they are would be appreciated - I am pretty sure that someone must have let them go at some point and they are happily making themselves at home on Maui. I haven't seen them eating the fruit in the garden, but they sure like the seed in the feeder.
My resident bird expert says they are all lovebirds, some are peach faced lovebirds and another looks like a mix of types but still, a lovebird.
How wonderful to have them in your yard. We have parrots here, and the occasional escapee.
Aloha,
Thanks for the ID - I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I saw them!
Off to "google" love birds....
Hi Jenn!
The green birds are as Extranjera says; Peach Faced Lovebirds, Agapornis personatus. The pale-faced ones are females; the red-orange faced ones are males.
http://www.parrot-bird.com/peach-faced-lovebird-pictures.html
The gray birds with white cheeks and black crowns are Java Sparrows Padda oryzivora.
http://www.hear.org/starr/images/species/?q=padda+oryzivora&o=birds
Aloha, Dave
OH WOW!!!!! wish we had lovebirds here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Jen, they are sooooo beautiful! How sweet! Lucky you! Those are a wonderful addition to the garden! WOW!
Jeanne
We have a flock of some type of Amazon parrots living in the trees across the street. They stay in about a 2 block area here, there are lots of fruit trees in the center of the block. This is in a big city.
The other night we could hear one of them really calling, they have a loud and screeching call. Apparently the rest of the flock flew off - we could see and hear them in a tree a block away - but this one couldn't seem to find them. We think it was a juvenile since it was alone and seemed so upset. Just as it got dark he finally went in the right direction and hopefully found Mom and Dad in the roost for the night.
Hi Extranjera!
Your Parrots look like Red Crowned Amazons, Amazona viridigenalis.
We are a lot farther south than the normal range for Amazona viridigenalis but it is possible. I wonder though about the yellow I can see on the forehead and the red lore. I didn't find that combination on the red crowned Amazons in my books. The Amazon considered native to this area is the Yucatan Amazon (Amazona xantholora) but no red lore and no yellow forehead. Of course, they could be an interbreeding of different types including escaped pets that have become a flock here in the city. I still think I'm missing the ID though as the whole flock is the same so far as I've seen. When we hear them we go out on the roof with the binoculars and watch them for awhile. I'm hoping when the figs are ripe in our enormous banyan that they will spend some time behind our house. I doubt they will roost there though because there is a very large owl that has taken up residence in that banyan. The good news is that he has moved the grackles and the pigeons away.
Yes, the ones that look like little puffins are java sparrows. They nest in our eaves in Kona and perch on our banana trees. They are sassy and talkative little buggers. They sometimes chase off spotted doves that are at least 4 times their size.
Yes, agreed they are little delightful lovebirds! I used to breed them! I would only add one thing, that they cannot be visually sexed, so the difference in color is only a variant. I would guess that lighter one to be a mutation in dutch blue maybe? Here is a link to that description
http://lovebirdlovers.com/lovebird-species-and-varieties/37-peachfaced-lovebirds/59-color-mutations-in-peacfaced-lovebirds.html?start=1
How joyful! And I know, you know when they arrive...they can be quite noisy!