The Peach-faced Lovebird likes its bath or shower time.
Unlike canaries (and robins/blackbirds),
lovebirds don't usually stand in a bath but they cling on to the side and dip forward (as do magpies).
A favourite activity for female lovebirds is stripping bark from willow, apple and similar twigs and
shredding palm leaves or paper/cardboard to use as nesting material. The strips of bark, wood, leaves or paper are then tucked in
to under-feathers on her rump and back so that she looks like a porcupine; this means not only that she can carry much more back to the nest
in one journey but also her beak is free to use as a hand when climbing. No other birds do this.
More porcupines. She pecks a small cleft in each leaf or twig to hook it on to the feather shaft.
"Do you want to know a secret?"
That was painful!