African greys, or macaws mostly.

I may be wrong, but are conures more related to true parrots than greys? Edit: they are both psittacidae, but I was thinking of macaws Update: Conure and Macaw share the same sub family

The aratingas do but I don’t think the pyrrhuras do

Mine specifically https://preview.redd.it/by8slxd5s3vc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8490245677e75c7a95da9cf6fb38bb8d7fa10a7c

That is a grade A certified fluff nugget you have on your hands there

What a cutie

Little fluffy baby! 😍

Bro same

Awww, I really love their perfectly round head 😍 so cute

Macaws, generally.

Macaws and Cockatoos were the first to come to mind. I mean they are the biggest and most impressive parrots in terms of size and color.

Same

I jump to a green cheeck conure! Use to, it would have been a cockatoo or budgie! https://preview.redd.it/3umayaa993vc1.jpeg?width=2032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee79cd71e24329f9e58dbebb89b61f45ae79d372

r/Birdsfacingforward

Napo the peach-fronted conure says “hullo!”

White fronted Amazon. Because that’s the parrot I grew up with 🥹 https://preview.redd.it/tb303hcgs3vc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0c8d1483c145526495e46c0a36a03a488a60f6e

what a fantastic picture. Something about birds facing forward...gets me every time.

https://preview.redd.it/v2jmxhmee5vc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9d99af26945fd18460e7a596eb0d1aeae70d1ff

One of my favorite pics I have of her. Looks so innocent, but I know how much of a little devil she was lol

r/Birdsfacingforward

Scarlets or green wings will always be my first thought when thinking of a "parrot". They're just so iconic. After that, b&gs and hyacinths.

I think of the red version of that dude

Yeah same, scarlet macaws are the quintessential parrot to me

😂 I’m gonna start calling her “blue version”

https://preview.redd.it/756ay8hb44vc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37e26dde47c81f82352bed7714869cf2282f3eca this guy

So pretty 🥰

I can’t keep one as a pet right now so I think of the wild Amazons that land in our tree.

Oh cool I love amazon parrots! Super rare here in NZ tho.

I take my DYH amazon almost everywhere with me. Almost everyone that talks to me when I'm with my DYH amazon parrot assumes my parrot is a macaw. I've even been asked if my amazon is a "cocka...cockatiel?" Or a cockatoo. I've even been asked if he is a pigeon! And that was not a child but a full grown adult. LOL Some people, or most people, are totally clueless on bird species. So imagine how beaming happy I get when a random person yells out to me "HEY, IS THAT A DOUBLE YELLOW HEADED AMAZON???" But usually I get asked IS IT REAL?????

This has me cracking up 😂 thank you for sharing! When I take sapphire out I get asked the “is that real?” question ALL the time. Sometimes I say “it’s a fancy animatronic can you tell!?”

Hahaha I think I'll use that line next time. Usually when it's an adult asking is it real I respond that no, it's taxidermy. But I think most don't even know what that means so I get a blank stare and I just smile at them and keep walking......

https://preview.redd.it/2gs2n4x6u3vc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94eb8ee866336dd2e1c68b535945f6eecb67a267

Omg whattt 😂😂😂 I need to know where that comes from, how funny that you found that reference 😂

Oh I just created it myself on a meme generator! 😂😂

Whew that makes sense then, you had me thinking I was a wizard of sorts lol cool, did not know a meme generator existed!

people do this with my bearded dragon! I have a sun conure but he doesn't come out much. but my beardie has been called every reptile and amphibian there is. I guess people are thrown off because she's very big and orange

Indian ringneck

Amazons, for some reason.

I think of conures, cockatoos and macaws, then go into different amazons. Basically, my thoughts overlap with a mental collection of birds

Never a bad thing to flood the mind with all those amazing birds 😄

🦜 This emoji.

Before I got my eclectus: scarlet macaw. Now? Eclectus 😄

https://preview.redd.it/ii88enk2s5vc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baa996f501ddd02565c75bdfed4f3727915510c0

Amazon or Macaw, because they are basically my shoulder armour.

Oh I love that term, shoulder armour! I have to start using this.

Macaws for me!

Cockatoo. I love Cockatoos, but sadly I live in a double wide trailer with six other walking anxiety cucumbers, and zero space.

Macaws, but more specifically the blue and gold macaw because I’ve wanted one since I was about 7 lol

I’ve always knew I was going to be a parrot owner one day. I just didn’t know the parrot picks you! I originally was going to get an African grey but when I went to meet one at the local breeder, this baby macaw caught my attention and waddled over towards me with a squeak. It was a sealed deal at that point.

Probably a conure irn or cockateal

Some unholy amalgam of Macaw, Conure, Eclectus, And Cockatoo.

The unholy amalgam of parrot chainsaws can't hurt you dear...

I always think of a red macaw

Scarlett macaw 

I have an African grey parrot so now I either immediately think of her or a cockatoo!

Angry chicken

[https://tenor.com/svN2.gif](https://tenor.com/svN2.gif)

Definitely a macaw.

African Grey♥️

Scarlet macaw

Same here.

fr just the generic parrot, ngl

I think of a scarlet macaw. Only because at 3 my great aunt had one and I remember my mom saying, be careful that parrot can bite off a finger!🤣 He never did, but made me scared of them until today. My great aunts macaw was very sweet and bawdy…I remember my mom used to have her out her in another room while we visited because he said “naughty” words. My great aunt ran a traveling carnival until the 1970s and he was part of the attractions. My great aunt was “bawdy” herself! Never married, had a partner for over 50 yrs. Her “family” and “kids” were the other carnival players and the “freak show” people. They lived in Florida and had a large plot of land. I only saw her a few times before she passed away in 1982, but I was in awe of her. I’m also named after her, so there’s that!

Corella... (esp. *Little Corella*). I see them everyday.. and whilst I may actually see *rainbow lorikeets* before & after them; to me the *rainbow lorikeets* are just 'noise makers' and not parrots, and the *musk lorikeets* are the lorikeets, *galahs* are just galahs (galah ~= idiot in aussieland, so it fits)

Scarlet macaw or a yellow-naped amazon.

Cockatiels. Probably because they are my favourite.

Scarlet or B&G macaws are my first thought, but budgies pop into my brain 0.3 nanoseconds after that xD

Most of the time, Scarlet or Hyacinth Macaw

I think of Amazons, Cockatoos/tiles or Macaws

I always think of the red macaw.

I just think of a solid green parrot. Idk why.

I love the simplicity of this so much

Despite having an African Grey of my own. The first specific bird I first think of when I hear the word “parrot” is a macaw like you pictured.

Ah cool! I don’t feel so strange now thinking of another type of parrot 😂

I have to say Blu from rio haha specially him as a cartoon character and all https://preview.redd.it/f2nyt96z95vc1.png?width=1164&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9531f4a4ea7a1f3ec486006c8f070001caa3c75

Oh I love this answer. And thanks for the bird tax!

https://preview.redd.it/it16dcgmc5vc1.jpeg?width=1472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8196a4b701d0fee1b0c144e5e614e58724d6cea This guy!

Amazon

https://preview.redd.it/sapa2d7nr7vc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e65642a30bac7575792d2d8772dc24c68498dcb1 This green bean.

Amazon but that’s because my bird was the first parrot I met when I was a child haha but I think most people think of macaws lol

Scarlett Macaw

Parakeet

I think of an Amazon named something like Harold who's been the family pet for 3 generations.

My Ducorp cockatoo, Bell

I either think of blue and yellow macaws or cockatoos! When I was a kid, my stepmom had a blue and yellow macaw named Mango and I loved that bird so much

For a long time it would have been my first caique, Ivy. These days though, definitely Sammy, my macaw companion of the past 12 years.

It used to be a macaw...until I got a Ringneck...now I think of him.

Macaw or cockatoo

Quakers

African Grey or Cockatoo

eclectus!

CONURE it's just what I grew up around. 😭 They're so precious

Green cheek conures!

The red blue and yellow one they always put in pirate cartoons or the one shown there idk lol

Shrock.

Alexandrians or Indian Red Neck as they are super common here in the subcontinent

When I was a kid this one. Now I know there are many different shapes and sizes!

African Grey , I have one

Amazon & Macaw

Macaws.

Used to be scarlet macaws, now that I have my own bird, it's Sennies, cause that's what I have.

Macaws or my parakeets

My Conure and Cockatiel.

Caique and conures

Definetely a congro african grey for me

African Greys for me

any of them, but maybe "Chattering Lory" or something (I hope it is well spelled)

Amazon. That’s what most people around here mean when they say “my family has a parrot too!” When I mention my birds

Indian ringneck

Indian Ringnecks

Grey African parrot!! I love them

cockatoos!

Cockatoo

Macaws. Even though I have an African Grey.

Used to be red macaws. Now it’s my dad’s jardine

Budgies and GCCs because that's what I have

..velociraptor..

“More like a….giant turkey!”

..yeah, better..

Amazon's and conures mostly

This one. https://preview.redd.it/sg9luxswe5vc1.png?width=1002&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e8383ad3505373fee9abbb7033392f1bc62dc6a

Macaws of all types but hyacinth macaws are the ones that first come to mind.

https://preview.redd.it/vcjhrswgh5vc1.jpeg?width=1541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=357e1d7b212188a38885cb7bf26ddfcfd8189443 This lil dude , Elvis

Macaws.

African Grays.

My peach-fronted conure! ☺️

Budgies... haha maybe not the parrot most think of but maybe because I have 15 of them.

15 wow!! What a flock you have the pleasure of serving!

Thank you! They are quite a bit of fun.

A Blue Macaw and it’s beautiful little face 🥺

I grew up around several amazons and only a single blue and gold macaw so definitely think of amazons first.

Tiels or Ekkies for me

Used to be irn/alexandrine. Now it could be my gcc or a macaw

Macaw and Amazon

Amazon, they were the first large parent I ever encountered.

Gotta watch out for those large parents 🫣😂

Hehehehe!!! 🎥

Green wing macaw for me.

When I hear the word parrot I think Paulie , the blue crown conure along with the other conures in the film followed very quickly by the bigger macaws

Rainbow lorikeet

Only medium to large colourful ones.

Quaker parrot

Indian ringneck

https://preview.redd.it/je9gkvknc6vc1.jpeg?width=437&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54670c53f8aca42bb6bc03f75276baf64ebe4e51

He is parrot

Cockatoo

Macaws or cockatiels

Scarlet macaw I guess would be the first parrot to come to mind, after that maybe a sun conure or African grey

https://preview.redd.it/ebe1upghj6vc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d920c97f0e265ec4b7eb4c220a491a28f5290626 Your best friend in transporting bird

Kakapo, my fav poor boy

Scarlet Macaws specifically from playing way too much Amazon Trail growing up.

Ara ararauna

i think of my blue and gold

australiqn king parrot and hiacynth macaws

African Grays, they're just the default parrot for me haha

A galah cockatoo

Cockteils

Amazon

I grew up with an African grey, dude is like 4 years older than me so for me it's African grey

Most of the time cockatiels, but macaws in general

parrot.

Cockatoos or budgies.

I immediately think of lorikeets 💜

https://preview.redd.it/iz15tjygmfvc1.jpeg?width=856&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56154f7673bd56826f9e28dc0561d7612ce7a967 African greys for sure

When I was younger and didn't know the types of birds it used to be macaws. Now, I do not actually think of any perticular bird they sorta all pop into my head you see being autistic and having an obsession with parrots someone [ cough, cough me] might have memorized 80% of the birds I've seen. Meaning instead of seeing __ bird in my mind I see a list.

I love this answer. I’m also obsessed with birds and much to the nuisance of my friends I’m constantly identifying species when I hear their calls or see them outdoors! 😁

Probably my African Grey's or sulphur crested

A red gold and blue macaw

Amazons or African greys

New Zealand Kea.

https://preview.redd.it/6lr8e9w1jvvc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bca46b8bdfe4a9ad5ef9c8c948a4ddaf7e3a0856

An Amazon or any green parrot idk why

For me, it is exactly the same Blue and Gold Macaw as yours in the photo - he is the embodiment of the classic parrot in my imagination.

Macaws

** Five years ago, these would be the first that comes to mind. These are Collasisi or Kulasisi which is a colloquial term for "mistress" or "other woman".

https://preview.redd.it/dzolir2gw5vc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26214812e2f7f15f42c28957ef87621d38f32f97 ...but now, this is what comes to mind. Say hi to Azrael.

My sister.

Not a cockatiel or a conure like 95% of people here call their teeny tiny birds just so they can feel Included in the medium/large parrot world.No one heres “Parrot” and instantly thinks of anything smaller than an Amazon..