Consider accepting African Grey as a typein -- I think it's the full name, or at least a widely used alternative. I tried it 3-4 times before giving up.
Yeah, I missed it because of that. African grey is apparently just another name for it though rather than the official name.
"The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot, Congo African grey parrot or African grey parrot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_parrot
I only got those because I am interested in nature and I often see American wildlife on my internet travels. Otherwise those would have stumped me as those aren't as well known outside of America. I first tried Golden Oriole, then Baltimore Golden Oriole for the Finch but when that failed I remembered the right answer. I'm just glad they accepted Grey Heron given the two species are practically identical.
To make it more confusing the Dutch word/version (the literal translation goudvink) apparently is yet ánother bird, the eurasian bullfinch in English.
So we have putter, goudsijs, and goudvink. Which are respectively European goldfinch, American goldfinch and bullfinch.
I did not know any of this before hand (I had heard of all the names though, but was not aware of a difference between european and american, I had just heard plain goldfinch before (or remembered))
I atleast did recognize it as a finch, I tried yellow finch.
Funny thing is I do know that birds can look radically different between the old and new world and still bare the same name, I have encountered this with blackbird, and robin. Wildly different looking if I rememeber. So as a random guess I tried blackbird (when yellow finch did nothing)haha
"The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot, Congo African grey parrot or African grey parrot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_parrot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_parrot#Intelligence_and_cognition
* FBI intensifies *
So we have putter, goudsijs, and goudvink. Which are respectively European goldfinch, American goldfinch and bullfinch.
I did not know any of this before hand (I had heard of all the names though, but was not aware of a difference between european and american, I had just heard plain goldfinch before (or remembered))
I atleast did recognize it as a finch, I tried yellow finch.
Funny thing is I do know that birds can look radically different between the old and new world and still bare the same name, I have encountered this with blackbird, and robin. Wildly different looking if I rememeber. So as a random guess I tried blackbird (when yellow finch did nothing)haha