Parrots / Supplementary survey dataset

Companion-parrot S2: reported context is not a call label

Publication year 2026 · Note reviewed 2026-10-13

PLOS describes S2 as a spreadsheet of parrot name phrases with coding and de-identified supporting information. The paper says phrase-use context was based on survey-takers' accounts of when or how a phrase was used, not inferred from the phrase's words; observers coded and reconciled the reports. The NLM catalog reports CC BY 4.0 for the linked Figshare item.

What we reviewed · Metadata-only source and rights review

Reviewed the primary PLOS paper's methods and S2 description and the NLM Dataset Catalog record, which links the S2 DOI to PLOS Figshare item 32046233 and reports CC BY 4.0. The direct Figshare page/API were not retrievable in this review. No workbook bytes, schema or cell contents were inspected; no reanalysis was performed.

Not yet independently reviewed by a scientific specialist.

Study at a glance

Artifact: PLOS S2 spreadsheet of coded parrot name phrases; workbook not inspected
Context provenance: Survey-taker account, then observer coding; not acoustic inference
Rights evidence: NLM Dataset Catalog reports CC BY 4.0 for the linked Figshare item
Talk2Nature status: Metadata only; no download, redistribution or training admission

Reading location: PLOS ONE Methods and Supporting Information S2; NLM Dataset Catalog item metadata

What this does — and doesn’t — establish

This is survey-derived phrase and context metadata, not natural-call audio or a receiver-response experiment. Respondents were asked for respondent and parrot names. Although the article describes S2 as de-identified, the workbook and its fields were not inspected, so re-identification risk and consent scope are unknown. The cataloged license does not resolve those issues. Do not treat caregiver context or researcher coding as independent ground truth or as model training labels.

What we can build on

In the phone app, keep a sound event, a person's account of the surrounding situation, a researcher's coded category, and a model prediction as separate records with separate provenance. This dataset is a useful interface-design example; it is not evidence that a model can infer what a parrot means.

The next reading task

Only if a concrete research question justifies access, review the exact workbook fields and terms under a privacy and consent assessment. Before any secondary analysis, determine how identifiers were removed, whether the original consent covers reuse, and whether repeated reports require bird- or household-grouped evaluation. No acquisition or participant-data intake is currently approved.

Go to the sources

Name use by companion parrots (2026) ↗
Peer-reviewed multi-species survey of reported human-name and animal-name use by companion parrots. The paper describes its coded S2 phrase dataset as de-identified; the file itself was not inspected. Article text is CC BY 4.0; supporting data need separate privacy and rights review.
NLM catalog record for the companion-parrot name-phrase S2 dataset ↗
PLOS identifies S2 as an XLSX of coded parrot name phrases with de-identified supporting information. The NLM Dataset Catalog links to PLOS Figshare item 32046233 and reports CC BY 4.0; the workbook itself has not been inspected.
NLM Dataset Catalog record ↗

Original editorial note by Talk2Nature contributors. AI-assisted, source-grounded synthesis; not a peer review or an independent replication. Linked works retain their own rights.