African Harlequin

These birds are lovely. If you train them up well, they'll be your friend for life, and if not, they will refuse to fly or even boink if you clip them. They need quite exact conditions to get them to lay, but put them in a quiet spot with plenty of cover, and you will be rewarded with plenty of eggs, or even chicks. No matter what anyone tells you, they will not die if not kept monogamously. Of course it is better to keep them in pairs, especially if they come from different breeders, but I currently have 5 birds; 3 males and 2 females, after buying them from a woman who could no longer keep them due to purchasing a cat. They get along very well, but have been kept together since birth.