Birders
Related: About this forumWild Peach-Faced Lovebirds in a Saguaro
The little interlopers that so many of us in the Phoenix area love to love. Although a non native species they are not threatening the native birds.
AZSkiffyGeek
(10,816 posts)We lived just west of Piestewa Peak. They spent most of their time high in the trees in the neighborhood, but every irrigation day they came down and bathed in the yard. Shocked me the first time I saw one.
StarryNite
(9,366 posts)Were the trees by any chance palm trees? I know they love palm trees and saguaros.
AZSkiffyGeek
(10,816 posts)I'm not sure what they were, but they drip sap and made a mess on my car. But they also provided great shade to the house and we were renting so we couldn't really do anything with them anyhow.
KarenS
(4,024 posts)I read they are considered feral and in the article I read the original ones escaped from a pet store years ago,,, but there are flocks of them in certain areas around town esp Scottsdale.
StarryNite
(9,366 posts)This is an interesting website:
Peach-faced Lovebird Range Expansion Data in Greater Phoenix, Arizona Area
[link:http://mirror-pole.com/collpage/pf_loveb/pfl_1.htm|
Rebl2
(13,311 posts)StarryNite
(9,366 posts)I love seeing them.
drmeow
(4,996 posts)on ASU's Tempe campus - I saw them less often at my house about a mile from campus.
Sigh - I miss Arizona!
StarryNite
(9,366 posts)At the same time there are a lot of reasons to be glad you left beginning with our crap governor.
drmeow
(4,996 posts)to move to Virginia. I miss the desert terribly but between Covid and pending water issues I feel like I got out just in time.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,011 posts)do I get these from my true love?