While there's nothing wrong with choosing a classic parrot name like "Polly," we recommend flexing your creative muscles and trying out some more "out of the box" names first. These unique parrot ...

Babycenter discovered that for Generation Beta (those born in 2025-2039), there is a huge name trend already: with bird baby names. Now, we already know that nature names have been all the rage in the ...

In the spring and summer of 2021, I wrote four columns on the issue of bird names. This has come around again, in a big way, as the American Ornithological Society has decided to get rid of all bird ...

You might not expect bird names to be a controversial or even newsworthy issue, but in recent years, they’ve become just that. A large number of bird species take their English names from people, ...

The names of our Eastern sparrows, all nondescript little brown birds, are descriptive. Chipping sparrows chip, song sparrows sing, field sparrows are found in fields, swamp sparrows in swamps, ...

The culture wars have come home to roost in Utah after the Legislature passed a bill forbidding state wildlife officials from following the American Ornithological Society’s effort to find new names ...

Naming any kind of pet is a challenging process that takes lots of planning and consideration, but naming a pet that can talk to you and even use its own name can amp up that difficulty level even ...

Parrots are absolutely extraordinary pals—there aren't many other pets that can literally talk back to you! Parrots are some of the most intelligent and expressive animals of all, and because they're ...