Wild parrots name their children.

While parrots don’t refer to other parrots by names such as Polly like we humans do, it’s believed that they do indeed name their children. Those “names” aren’t audible words we would understand, but rather specialized chirps used to call out to specific offspring.

From 2007 to 2008, doctoral student Karl Berg studied groups of wild green-rumped parrots in Venezuela. Based on that analysis, it was concluded that one parrot would communicate to its own hatchlings using slightly different vocalizations than another parrot would use to speak with its own offspring. Over time, the newborns would learn which sounds they were associated with and use those specialized chirps as a way to essentially identify themselves to their fellow birds.