Past Projects

Black-cheeked Lovebird Research

The Black-cheeked Lovebird has suffered precipitous declines since the 1920s, when people began to heavily exploit it for the cage-bird trade. Since then the wild bird trade has dried up somewhat, but degradation of this species' habitat, killing for food and sport, and the partial change of sorghum and millet crops, a food source, has depleted wild numbers.

WPT has, along with a number of other concerned groups, been involved in aiding the preservation of the Black-cheeked Lovebird. This aid has taken the form of sponsoring by the Canadian arm of the Trust, funding researcher Louise Warburton's valuable work surveying populations, habitat requirements, feeding, reproduction and captive management.

To learn more about our efforts to help this species:

• PsittaScene Volume 16, Number 1; February 2004; page 10
• PsittaScene Volume 11, Number 3; August 1999; page 9
• PsittaScene Volume 11, Number 2; May 1999; pages 8-9

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