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Lovebird ID please

Can anybody ID this species of lovebird from the Desert House? I'm tempted by black-faced, but they aren't as 'black-faced' as Dudley's.
Can anybody ID this species of lovebird from the Desert House? I\'m tempted by black-faced, but they aren\'t as \'black-faced\' as Dudley\'s.
 
There's no such thing as Black-faced. Black-cheeked have a lot less black than Black-masked, which are the second commonest lovebird species in aviculture [after Peach-faced], and the rump is a different colour. This one looks too orange about the face to be pure Black-cheeked, and I suspect has Fischer's in its ancestry.
 
Looking at it again, it could be a 'yellow' Black-cheeked, but this wopuld again suggest hybrid ancestry. A lot of Lovebird species are hybridised in the process of 'transferring' colour mutations from one species to another. A recessive mutation could lurk in a population for years without producing a visual mutant. OR it could be a spontaneous mutation of a yellow Black-cheeked..........
 
A.personatus x fischeri - they're known to hybridise in the wild too.
 

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