Stupid things People have said?

[HeatherG]

I never actually say any of the negative things to people- these are things I THINK and would say if I had no social graces! 😏

Yeah, I’ve just heard those very things and had to think, “how do I save this situation?” And also, I WANT people to know how nice and smart birds are.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Excuse me, but there is nothing stupid about "parakeets" aka Budgies, or saying that someone used to have one! Please apologize to my beloved Rocky BalBirden! His feelings are hurt!

What's unfortunate is that here in the US Budgies are called "parakeets". If I tell the average person here that I have a Budgie they have no idea what I'm talking about. We have to be understanding about this word usage problem here before we get frustrated with people who don't understand what "parakeet" refers to in the UK and much of the of the world.

 

[PrimorandMoxi]

When I first got my Amazon, Primor one of my colleagues said, " aren't birds just rats with wings"

I was thinking, WOW! you teach in a supposed institution of higher learning...?

We have a ton of seagulls on campus cause we are right on the water.
He must have heard someone say that about the seagulls, which I think is still ignorant.

 

[foxgloveparrot]

Yesterday I was quizzing my partner on parrot species
According to them,
Galah = pink birb idk
Yellow naped amazon = Jasper (if you don't know, my YNA is named Jasper)
Fischer's lovebird = mango birb
Harlequin macaw = pretty pretty bird
Purple crowned lorikeet = it's cute
Patagonian conure = the eye looks like it's melting
Major mitchell's cockatoo = very pink
Bourke's parakeet = oOoO oOoO wAiT i KnOw ThIs OnE uMmMmM..... bOuRkE rIgHt?
Vernal hanging parrot = small

I did this again!

So now apparently,
Coconut lorikeet = knockoff rainbow lorikeet
OWA = definitely a bird
Cape parrot = LILLA?? BUT UGLIER
CAG = pigeon
Crimson rosella = ooh red
Quaker = hmmmmmmmm.....
DYH = didnt you used to want one of those?
SC2 = banana hair!

 

[Rozalka]

I did this again!

So now apparently,
Coconut lorikeet = knockoff rainbow lorikeet
OWA = definitely a bird
Cape parrot = LILLA?? BUT UGLIER
CAG = pigeon
Crimson rosella = ooh red
Quaker = hmmmmmmmm.....
DYH = didnt you used to want one of those?
SC2 = banana hair!

I've seen CAG "being" a pigeon too but it was a random comment under yt video and others corrected this person

 

[foxgloveparrot]

I've seen CAG "being" a pigeon too but it was a random comment under yt video and others corrected this person

Yeah, that's not the first time I've seen someone calling an African grey a pigeon.

 

[Rozalka]

I did this again!

So now apparently,
Coconut lorikeet = knockoff rainbow lorikeet
OWA = definitely a bird
Cape parrot = LILLA?? BUT UGLIER
CAG = pigeon
Crimson rosella = ooh red
Quaker = hmmmmmmmm.....
DYH = didnt you used to want one of those?
SC2 = banana hair!

I had to do it to my mom despite she seems to know some basics (but also she has a habit of creating joke-names when she doesn't know)

CAG - African grey parrot but don't ask which one
Scarlet macaw- macaw... blu.... not it isn't blue and gold. But macaw for sure.
GWM - you know, I don't know. Macaw... let's call it blue-winged
Hyacinth macaw - hyacinth macaw
sun conure - umm..... sun conure
peach fronted conure - uhh... olive something...
rainbow lorikeet - coconut lorikeet (note: in Polish T. moluccanus after the separation got a new name, so that's why she made this mistake... if to consider the old classification, she didn't)
Dusky lory - I don't know for sure. African conure
Red lory - how pretty, beautiful
peach-faced lovebird - It's cool. Some sort of mniszka (in general "mniszka" means "munia" but I guess she though about Quaker parrots)
masked lovebird - uhh...cataract... err..... I forgot it