she was a bouncing baby girl so even though Zazu is of course a male in the movies I'd had my heart set on this specific name for all these years so Zazu she was.
I had an old friend/housemate that used to call me Zazu. I don´t see why it can´t be used for both males and females
I didnt really have any reason for calling Mojo her name
Sometimes there´s just no reason, a name just pops in our heads and fits
I named my first bird Sydney because even though I requested a male bird I wanted a unisex name just incase and Sydney seemed to match his bright yellow plumage.
Jaime is Jaime for no reason, I just liked the name. I asked for a male bird again so I was leaning towards make names, but thought Jaime could be a nice female name too. Pronounced in the English way and not the Spanish way.
Lapis Lazuli - for obvious reasons, her blue plumage
Nube is Spanish for Cloud. He is Marbled so looked very cloud like. At the time I didn´t know he was Mottle and he lost most of his colour from the time he turned one until now. Marshmallow would have been a more fitting name because he´s almost completely white now, but guess what? Nube also means Marshmallow in Spanish
Adélie I named after the Adélie penguins. Small but fierce birds. Adélie didn´t have the best start in life, parent abandoned her, she grew super slowly, weaned slowly, but she soldiered through and she´s a little warrior
Gísli is Scandinavian for ¨little ray of sunshine¨. I had bred two birds for a neighbour, but she later said she only wanted one. I gave her the bird in March 2020, leaving me with this little bundle of cuteness. Given world events and the manditory confinement, the name was quite fitting.
Aldoras name is Greek. It means Winged gift. She just turned up one day at my back door. Jacob alerted me that something was happening and I went to look and saw nothing. As I walked away I heard something outside and found her. Initially I freaked out thinking it was Jaime, but once I´d coaxed her in, it was clear she was not him and instantly I knew she was female. I named her once one month had passed. She was quarentined in my kitchen because she had landed at my kitchen door. No one ever looked for her.