Are there any other local names or nicknames for Eclectus parrots?
Only the fact that I have already mentioned, that in Minaveha the males and females have separate names, as if they were different species. photo of Green male and red female Eclectus parrots by Dean Moser Q: Do you know which subspecies of Eclectus are native to your area? A: I wouldn’t have a clue what the local species of Eclectus is. The only other comprehensive lexicon done between a language on our island and English was done in what was then called the Morima language (today known as Molima or Tola’ai). Their related word for the male is ‘gewala’, but its entry shows only ‘parrot’ with no discrimination for the sex, as in Minaveha. No entry akin to Minaveha ‘anahana’ was made in that lexicon. Q: How often does it rain in your area of Papua New Guinea? A: I dealt with this info in Part 1, but, approx. 50 inches of rain per year is normal on Fergusson Island. However, during the rainy season, cyclones in the vicinity can increase that amount by as much as 1 inch per hour. Within a
