Answers for Quiz #1: Alternate Parrot Names
1. Sacred Temple Parrot
b. Eclectus
2. Willie-willock (Australian Nickname)
a. Rose-breasted Cockatoo
3. Chiwangwa (Southern African Nickname)
c. Cape Parrot
4. Black-hooded Parakeet (has a black head)
d. Nanday Conure
5. Ash-coloured Parrot (A Historic Name for African Grey)
b. African Grey
6. Quarrion (A Australian native Wiradhuri name for cockatiel)
c.. Cockatiel
7. Loro Real (Spanish name for Yellow-head Parrots)
b. Double yellow head Amazon
8. Zebra Parrot (Called this because of the stripes in their plumage)
c. Budgie
9. Cliff Parakeet (A subspecies of quaker parrots builds stick nests in cliffs instead of trees.)
a. Monk Parakeet d. Quaker Parakeet
10. Wee-juggler (a nickname bushmen might have corrupted from an Aboriginal name for the bird, "weejee galah")
d. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
11. Perico Calzoncito (translates as parrot with little shorts)
a. Black-headed caique
12. Sundown Parrot
c. Bourke’s Parakeet
13. Rotbugara (German name for Severe Macaw)
b. Severe macaw
14. Weero (Another nickname for cockatiel)
a. Cockatiel
15. Red-fan Parrot
b. Hawk-headed Parrot
16. Jocko (Historic nickname for African grey)
d. African Grey
17. Chockalott
a. Major Mitchells
18. Primrose-cheeked Parrot
b. Red-lored Amazon
19. Red-vented Parrot (Pionus menstruus - you figure it out)
c. Blue-headed Pionus
20. Chinese Parakeet
b. Derbyan Parakeet
21. Blood-stained Cockatoo (so named because of the red feathers on face)
d. Bare-eyed Cockatoo
22. Guacamayo Bandero
a. Scarlet macaw
23. Burrowing Parrot (so named because they burrow and nest in the banks along rivers)
c. Patagonian Conure
24. Betcherrygah (the Aboriginal word that was turned into Budgerigar)
b. Budgie
25. Gray headed Parrot (has a dark grey head)
b. Senegal Parrot
26. Grey Trunked Ara (early ornithologists erroneously labled this cockatoo as a macaw because it had a bare face)
c. Palm Cockatoo
27. Great-collared Parrot (Has a bright collar and is the largest Psittacula
b. Alexandrine Parrakeet
28. La Petite Peruche Maypouri (Because they make a sound like a Tapir).
c. Caique
29. Moluccan Parrot (Range includes the Maluka Islands)
d. Great-billed Parrot
30. Golden Parakeet (also commonly called Golden Conure)
a. Queen of Bavaria Conure