What are some words for parrot in countries that speak Spanish?

[kolkapetal]

My understanding is that people often use different words to say the same thing in different Spanish speaking countries.

So how do you say "parrot" if you are in:

Spain?
Countries in Latin America?

[poli]

I have heard loro. Guacamayo also, but that's a special parrot. Words change from country to country for lots of reasons. Some reasons: Native American words from a particular country reign(palta/aguacate). African words often are used (candia/quimbombó). Sometimes words that are too impolite to mention became local words.

[pjt33]

Gabriel García Marquez's colonel* comments to his wife that he must look like a papagayo with his hair sticking up. A similar regional variation (audibly identical if you're a yeísta) is papagallo.


* El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

[Rusty]

I heard 'loro' or 'perico' in Central America.

[JPablo]

From the following list, the bold ones are the ones I heard some time. (The most common ones in bold blue.)

Cancán, cata, catalnica, catana, catarinita, catey, catita, caturra, choroy, cotorra, cotorrera, guacamaya, guacamayo, guara, guaro, loro, maracaná, mariquita, papagayo, paraba, paraguay, perico, periquito, tricahue, tui, viudita, zapoyolito.

[chileno]

Dejaste fuera cacatúa...

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by chileno

Dejaste fuera cacatúa...

But not all parrots are cockatoos

Parrots, also known as psittacines are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ('true' parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos) and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots).

(Wiki)

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Originally Posted by JPablo

From the following list, the bold ones are the ones I heard some time. (The most common ones in bold blue.)

Cancán, cata, catalnica, catana, catarinita, catey, catita, caturra, choroy, cotorra, cotorrera, guacamaya, guacamayo, guara, guaro, loro, maracaná, mariquita, papagayo, paraba, paraguay, perico, periquito, tricahue, tui, viudita, zapoyolito.

I agree.

[chileno]

Si ese fuera el caso, un papagayo no es un loro tampoco...

[JPablo]

Mmmm... no sé, no sé... Chileno...

El DRAE da:

loro 1. m. Papagayo, ave, y más particularmente el que tiene el plumaje con fondo rojo.