I named Sydney because I needed a nice happy unisex name that matched the vibrant yellow plumage.
The name Jaime just came to me.
Aldora appeared one day on my doorstep, after a month of quarantine and searching unsuccessfully for her owner, I named her Aldora, Greek, meaning ¨winged gift¨. I knew she was a hen because she laid an egg in quarantine and so she is the only one with a sexed name.
I named Lapis Lazuli because her feathers were as beatiful as the stone. We call her Lapis for short. Looking back I wish we shortened it to Lazuli because Lapis sounds a lot like Lapiz, meaning Pencil.
Nube, meaning ¨cloud¨ ins Spanish, is named this because his feathers were white/grey with a dark grey/silver edging. Due to my inexperience with the mutation, he does not look like this now, he is light sky blue.
Adelie is named after the Adelie penguin, small but fearless. I think it fits her so well. She is the strongest, most determined of all my birds, she was so small but battled to live after her parents abandoned her at 5 days old. She grew super slowly, at one point she looked 2-3 weeks younger than she actually was.
All of my birds names are pronounced as their English forms.