While some species are nearly as common as budgies, others remain as rare as the most elusive bird in the wild. Dimorphics In Love Birds, three of the nine species are dimorphic. A species is dimorphic if the cock is visibly different in color from the hen. The following three love bird species, Madagascar, Red-faced, and Abyssinian, fall into this category. Madagascar Love Bird , or Agapornis Cana , is also known as the Grayheaded Love Bird.
Hens differ from the cocks by being completely green.
As might be expected, the Madagascar Love Bird is from the island of Madagascar. It is also found in smaller numbers on some of the neighboring islands and there have been isolated sightings on the mainland of South Africa. These birds have been freely imported for well over a hundred years. Today, because of export regulations out of Madagascar, this species has become very rare. One reason Madagascars are rare is that they are not prolific breeders.