# Dopers, HELP..I need a name for a new bird **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392 "2010-06-16T03:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/21 "2010-06-18T07:02:46Z")
Onan, from the Book of Genesis, I name all my birds Onan. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/22 "2010-06-18T15:23:03Z")
> [@born\_too\_late](#): > > To be honest, I had just looked at the wiki article for [Dunedin, New\_Zealand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin,_New_Zealand), and I was looking through the ‘notable people’ from there and noticed the name Bendix Hallenstein. Thought it was a remarkable name - nothing more. That said, I think the name “Allied/Signal” for a highly vocal cockatiel could be interesting and fun 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/23 "2010-06-18T15:28:55Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Onan, from the Book of Genesis, I name all my birds Onan. This is so very wrong. I’m using it for my next boid.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/24 "2010-06-18T15:48:28Z")
[**Tom O’Bedlam**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_o%27_Bedlam). I always figured that’d be a perfect name for a psittacine, screechy, lunatic ( but still lovable ) critters that they are :). Oh, yeah - [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McRkEmPx3Eg). ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/25 "2010-06-18T15:53:40Z")
Conrad Twitty. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/26 "2010-06-18T19:46:44Z")
Aaaaagh! to think that I had to spend two minutes on whether I’d name mine Gudrun Ensslin or Sadie Mae Glutz. Sadie won out. Some animals just look like a Sadie. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/27 "2010-06-18T23:08:35Z")
I think I’m going to take Beaker for mine. He’s one of my favorite muppets. I never really named the two Quakers so I think I’ll call them Bunsen and Honeydew. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/28 "2010-06-19T08:22:15Z")
Are you sure what gender it is? It’s hard to tell when they’re young. When I was a kid I showed my sister a picture of Led Zep and asked her “Whose this chick standing by Robert Plant?” My sister just looked at me funny and said “That’s Jimmy Page.” So years later when I had a cockatiel whose gender I couldn’t determine I just called the thing Jimmy Page. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/29 "2010-06-21T06:39:39Z")
Cockatoo! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/30 "2010-06-21T13:15:08Z")
Of course then there is the classic pet name, “Guess.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392/31 "2010-06-21T13:40:39Z")
Irving. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-help-i-need-a-name-for-a-new-bird/543392.md?page=1)