Abbreviations For Parrot Species

Some abbreviations that you might see on this sight:

B&G - Blue and Gold Macaw
BC - Blue Crown Conure
BE2 - Bare Eyed Cockatoo
BFA - Blue Front Amazon
BP2 - Black Palm Cockatoo
BSL - Blue Streak Lory
C2 - Citron Cockatoo
CAG - Congo African Grey
CM - Catalina Macaw
D2 - Ducorps Cockatoo
DYH - Double Yellow Head Amazon
E2 - Eleanora Cockatoo
Ekkie - Eclectus
FIDS - Feathered Kids
G2 - Goffins Cockatoo
GC(C) - Green Cheeked Conure
GCC - Gold Capped Conure
GCP - Grey Cheeked Parakeet
GE - Grand Eclectus
GSC - Greater Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
GW - Green Wing Macaw
HM - Hahns Macaw
HMC - Half Moon Conure
HYM - Hyacinth Macaw
IRN - Indian Ringneck Parakeet
Keet - Parakeet
LCA - Lilac Crowned Amazon
LSC - Lessor Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
M2 - Moluccan Cockatoo MBC - Maroon Belled Conure
MGM - Miligold Macaw
MM - Military Macaw
MM2 - Major Mitchell (Leadbeater) Cockatoo
MRHA - Mexican Red Head Amazon
MSC - Medium Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
OWA - Orange Winged Amazon
PC - Painted Conure
RB2 - Rose Breasted Cockatoo
RLA - Red Lored Amazon
RM - Ruby Macaw
RSE - Red Sided Eclectus
RV2 - Red Vented Cockatoo
SIE - Soloman Island Eclectus
SM - Scarlet Macaw
T2 - Triton Cockatoo
TAG - Timneh African Grey
Tiel - Cockatiel
Too/2 - Cockatoo
U2 - Umbrella Cockatoo
Umbie - Umbrella Cockatoo
VE - Vosmaeri's Eclectus
WFA - White Fronted Amazon
WF - White Faced Cockatiel
YCM - Yellow Collared Macaw
YNA - Yellow Naped Amazon

Please post anymore that we use.

List taken from:Winged Wisdom magazine as well as what I've seen this forum use.

Thanks!!!! Of course there's no Abbreviations for vasa's! Hmmmm We're always left out.

Kimba, you only get left out because VASA is short enough to be an abbreviation anyway!


Nice list, Zetar.
Very helpful to those of us who aren't as "parrot literate" as some may be!
Thanks.

LOL
Okay, FIDS--Feathered Kids....That has been bugging me for months!
Why yes, I AM blonde...

Well shiver me timbers, to find out that FIDS was feathered kids after giving my wife some long forgotten intellectual explanation.

LOL, we love your v kimba

son of a gun, I expected a dozen abbr.

Quote: (Originally Posted by pauljr)

Well shiver me timbers, to find out that FIDS was feathered kids after giving my wife some long forgotten intellectual explanation. LOL, we love your v kimba son of a gun, I expected a dozen abbr.

LOL, That's funny!