I could watch these little fellars all day, the way they climb around the cage, preen each other and chatter to you if you say something to them.
They're really messy birds though. Unlike most birds that lift up a bit, relax and poo straight down, the loris prefer to lift their tail, squeeze and shoot it out to the side. That red sheet in the background is covered in lorkeet poo and so is the ground outside the cage. We had a Japanese exchange student visited the other day with my in-laws to see the animals, he very nearly got pooed on.
We actually have four birds, but the other one was on a lower perch at the time and it was too hard to get a decent picture with all four of them in it.
As you can see in these pictures, they're all juveniles. You can tell that by the fact their beaks are still a bit black. The adults have completely red beaks. Once they're a bit older and all healthy they'll be released together so they can look after each other.
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