Conures are Conures (don't trust what they say in USA, they don't know about
parrots). As they only have one extinct native parrot, they don't commonly know
the words for all the parrot groups. They also call the budgerigar a parakeet.
It was amusing to read in the (exceedingly weird) book "Wild parrots of
Telegraph Hill" that in USA the name Conures is frowned upon by ornithologists
in favour of parakeet. Forshaw's book and other calls them Conures. Ultimately
it is only words.
The Red-browed Finch is the Red-browed Finch. The 1994 C&B list (thankfully)
reverted to the finch name. It is not a firetail. I never understood why it was
linked to the firetails. It is related more to the Star Finch and Crimson Finch
and not to the firetails and now grouped as congeners with them (Neochmia). The
main similarity is the red rump, which is more similar to that of the Star
Finch and Crimson Finch and really quite different to that of the firetails,
that have a glittery red tip to the rump feathers.
Philip
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