r/Lovebirds

a few months ago, someone in our family brought home two adult lovebirds. ever since we got them, they always panic when we’re around or we get even slightly close to them. now, one of them escaped the cage, leaving the other lovebird alone. the lovebird became stressed and depressed that day, so the next day, they bought two new baby-ish sibling lovebirds and put them in the same cage with the other adult but with a divider in between. the new babies were exploring their cage at first and didn’t get scared of people (although they had plucked feathers around the neck when we got them) and we could even pet them. but just today, when i checked on them, the babies are now cooped up in their corner and scared of getting approached, just like the way the adult lovebird would react, although the adult would fly around the cage aggressively.

(another new adult lovebird is coming in today because they’re gonna try to pair it with the adult lovebird we currently have, and i’m afraid they’re going to just get stressed as well.)

help, i don’t know what to do to help them and im afraid the babies will die of stress or grow up scared and aggressive like the other lovebird.

google says we should separate the babies from the aggressive adult, but the most we can do for now is the divider in the same cage.

will the babies just grow up stressed? can all the loverbirds eventually relax again and how?

edit: im not sure but i feel like the adult is bullying the babies when no one is around:( is that possible? whenever i’m on my way to them at the rooftop, i can hear a lot of loud chirping, but when i show up, they get quiet

edit 2: the first pair lovebirds came with their own box and they would always hide there, but now that the lovebird is alone, we took the box away. we’re planning to put it back so it can hide there instead of scaring the babies. is that the right thing to do?

Hola a todos; escribo porque estoy preocupada por mi periquita australiana y la única cría que tiene en su nido. Hoy por la tarde falleció el macho repentinamente y ella se quedó solita con la cría. El bebé ya tiene abiertos sus ojitos y empieza a tener brotes de plumitas. Quería preguntar si debo hacer algo, no sé si ella pueda sola con el cuidado de la cría. En otra jaula tengo otro macho que está solito y se ven de jaula a jaula. ¿Será prudente que los junte? Muchas gracias de antemano.

Male lovebird escaped through my window earlier today. It’s been over 6 hours with no sighting.

There are wild lovebirds around my area, and trees are very close to the window where he exited. Earlier there may have been some response calls, but everything has been silent for hours now.

I kept the female outside in her cage all day and she kept calling him, but there was no sign of him. It is now getting dark and I’m not sure what to do next. I’ve had both birds for a year and they’ve always been together, so this is really hard for me. I feel really sad seeing her alone now.

Recently switched my guys onto Roudybush which was a very smooth transition! Thing is that my guys really enjoy the CRUNCH of more solid pellets. They enjoy round yush but very quickly most of the pellets (maintenance, mini size) is turned to dust that they’re uninterested in eating. This means the majority of the food is being tossed away.

Anyone know any harder foods that I could mix into the roundybush bag too give them more of a challenge?

Really hard pellets! I’m trying to have the food last more then a few hours before it’s a pile of mostly uneaten dust lol

So I first asked r/birds for help and got kinda bullied so I came here. I got my first lovebird approximately 4 days ago and I need help training him and learning about him. How do I get him to love me?? Some videos on YouTube said to remove the food bowl from his cage for hours and only put seed on your palm so he comes eat, tried it and it worked but he won't let me touch him. I invited him to eat from my hand out of his cafe today and he flew around my room for 30 minutes till he flew back into his cage for food that I had put there again for him to come down form the top of my closet. He just keeps climbing all around the cage, some people did it's a bit small but I want to get him a bigger one once he's trained and all.

Any help would be appreciated like what kind of bird is he?? Is he really male? Maybe his age? Reddit isn't allowing me to attach photos but I'll try to describe him

(He has a red beak, orange face, yellow body thats slightly green in the sun)

My fischer Pedro has been hormonal since FEBRUARY of 2026.

She was extremely hormonal 2025, but started it June, ended July and went back to normal. They have no «huts» or toys that could mimic a nest etc.

The thing is, she gets OVERLY excited when I open up my drawer, which I think is the main reason she’s STILL hormonal. She will scream and walk back and forth if she hears me open it, or go near it. Probably because she thinks it’s a nesting box.

I have a male in the cage with her, and they have tried to breed multiple times for MONTHS, still NO eggs.

If my hands are anywhere near her, she’ll lift her wings as well, so I try my best to not touch her anymore (only on the head area)

They both get 10-13 hours of sleep everyday, and flies freely for hours when I’m home (though, Pedro is put into his cage alone most of the times as a time-out, because he WILL start chewing my clothes and me, and lose control after)

Their diet contains of 80% pellets and 10% seeds + vitamin powder. Their water is changed daily, or even multiple times a day bc they like to shit in it lol.

He will even attack my male bird if she’s anywhere outside of the cage, if he dares come near my hands/body.

Any advice would be LOVED

my love bird is recently bobbing its tail, it just started today and im worried

Hello! o/

I need some help. :(

I have a lovebird that someone gave me two years ago because they could no longer take care of him. When I got him, his beak was already in very bad shape. I managed to help him and trim it enough for him to eat comfortably, but it keeps growing in a very abnormal way.

He gets sick quite easily, so I have to trim his beak regularly. However, I can't trim it completely because I'm afraid of hurting him. Now it's really getting out of control, his upper beak has grown so much that it's curling into his mouth.

When he gets sick, the feathers on his head become much darker. He still eats normally, but I can tell he's uncomfortable.

His beak is also extremely thick. I even bought an electric nail file, and it works to some extent, but I only use it for about 2 minutes at a time because he gets tired very quickly. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve the problem since his beak grows back very fast. :(

Lately, he's also been scratching himself constantly, and he's started losing feathers on his head because of it. The vet gave me some medication, but unfortunately it didn't help at all.

I've also been to several vets, but they only gave me advice I already knew. Sadly, we don't have avian vets in my country.

I have mineral/grinding stones in his cage, and he uses them a lot, but his beak is just too thick for them to make much of a difference. :(

(sadly I can't share picture in this community, I wonder why )

I just got my lovebird like a week ago , he's still very young and should be around 7-8 weeks. He sleeps a lot since the day I got him , but these last two days it seems like he's been doing it a lot more. He eats normally and is sleeps on his perch, doesn't seem to be breathing heavily. He just spends most of the day sleeping I don't know if that's normal.

I am wanting to teach my birds how to hold their treats like strawberries or something in their claw while using the other to balance themselves but idk how so anyone that can help explain to me how to that would be amazing thank you. 🙏

Good morning. Tonight my lovebird passed away, and somehow Reddit seems to know it, because I have been receiving notifications about people posting similar things despite never having followed any bird-related communities before. So I want to share this.

My lovebird was a beautiful female peach-faced lovebird (roseicollis) with an aqua mutation. After the passing of her male companion, I became her partner. Ironically, even when he was alive, she was never as attached to him as she was to me; I was always her main person, her chosen companion.

We shared 8 years of unimaginable love. She was my companion, my confidant, my friend, and my daughter.

Rhaegal came into my life as a hand-raised lovebird, along with Daenerys, her male partner (yes, it is ironic that I named him Daenerys, but I thought he was female). From the moment they entered my life, I was never the same.

They saved me from depression. They accompanied me through my journey into medical school and through graduating from Medicine. Sadly, Daenerys passed away suddenly 2 years ago, and today Rhaegal has passed after a long battle.

It started with egg binding, and after the veterinarian resolved that issue, I don't know whether it was due to negligence or not, but she developed a cloacal prolapse. It was repaired, but unfortunately her kidneys were left severely damaged.

The veterinary hospital wanted me to keep her hospitalized indefinitely, seemingly with the only purpose of taking all my money, when the reality was clear: my little bird was not going to recover.

I have spent the last 48 hours glued to her side, keeping her warm in the place she called home, surrounded by her flock: her daughters Viserion and Drogon, and Caraxes.

I tried to give her comfort, peace, and calm during her final hours. I gave her the best scratches and the strongest kisses, the ones she loved so, so much. While I stayed awake, I spent those 48 hours making all the sounds she loved and that always brought her comfort.

I will love you for my entire life, Rhaegal. I don't think a single day will pass without me thinking of you. It is because of you that I survived two of the saddest and hardest moments of my life. And it is because of you and Daenerys that I learned the immense amount of love that such tiny birds can give: creatures with such complex personalities, such unique behaviors, and so many little habits that sometimes feel almost human.

I loved you. I love you. And I will love you forever, Rhaegal.

I currently have a two year old female black capped conure who I’ve been wanting to get a friend for. I want to adopt rather than shop though, and there are NO conures in rescues near my area. However, there’s an animal shelter near me with two pairs of budgies (a non-bonded M/F pair and a bonded M/F pair) and an 8 month old lovebird (website says male but I don’t trust they’ve DNA sexed him). I want to emphasize heavily that MY CONURE WILL NOT BE HOUSED WITH EITHER OF THEM. The lovebird or the budgies would have a separate cage from my conure, and they’d only be allowed out together under my direct supervision where I could quickly intervene if something was going south. I’ve never had lovebirds before, but I have had budgies, just not while also owning a conure. But I feel like my conure would still be provided with some companionship by just having other birds in her room with her and getting to interact with them during free range time.

I’m asking people who have had experience with conures and budgies together, and/or conures and lovebirds together in the same space. Which do you think would make for a more ideal companionship? Because I’ve heard horror stories in all directions: Conures harassing budgies, lovebirds harassing conures, conures harassing lovebirds. So I really think it probably just depends on the birds. (I know the budgies are friendly towards other budgies, at least.) And, for the budgies, do you think it would be better to take the mated pair or the non-bonded pair for flock dynamics if I chose to adopt the budgies?

I live in an upper floor appartment in Germany and am barely managing the weather and I'm worried my birds are suffering in a similar way. The weather is only going to get worse the next days. Their behavior didnt change, they're just a bit more sleepy. I keep changing their water every couple hours, they are picky eaters so they're not interested in frozen food. Is there anything else I can do to make the weather more tolerable for them? Are they even affected or am I overthinking it?