New lovebird!

Question
Hi!  I feel in love with a lovebird at the petstore and decided to get him.  At the petstore I thought he was a normal peachfaced but then when he came home I noticed he has a pinkish-reddish beak and a rather white eye ring.  Could he be a peachfaced-Fischer's hybrid?  And if so is that a bad thing?  I wasn't planning on breeding him, but will him being a hybrid cause health problems (weaker immune system or something?)  If you'd like I can send some pictures so you can take a look at him.  Thanks a lot!

Answer
Hi, Daven.  Thanks for posting!

There are so many different species/subspecies of lovebirds I couldn't tell you if your bird is a peachfaced-fischer's hybrid.  What species/subspecies did the pet store tell you your new bird is?  See below that I took off a lovebird website:

Fischer's lovebirds and Masked lovebirds are DIFFERENT species of  lovebirds (Agapornis personata fischeri and Agapornis personata personata, respectively) and should not be bred with peachfaced (A. roseicollis) lovebirds. Inter-species breeding sometimes results in mules (that is, lovebirds that cannot reproduce), but when it doesn't, the consequence is pollution of the pure gene pool for these various species of lovebirds. Responsible breeders do not inter-breed different species, especially since we can no longer import new, fresh stock from the wild! And frankly I've seen some of these crossed-species lovebirds and they often are very strange creatures.  They tend to have very skittish personalities (the most terrified lovebirds I've ever encountered were a cross between a peachface and a Fischer's--ALL the lovebird babies were excessively nervous). If, out of ignorance, you paired up different species of lovebirds, it is very possible to re-pair them properly. Just get them out of ear-shot of each other and find them new mates. I've even re-paired lovebirds who could hear each other (for color mutation purposes) and it worked out great for all four lovebirds. Please note that color mutations occur WITHIN the same species of lovebirds and it is not necessary to interbreed species to get these new colors.

Chrys