The battered parrat on the windowsill startled us by singing an old sea shanty.

The parrats squawked loudly as visitors approached the aviary.

When I looked into the family records, I discovered that Parratt had originally been a given name before becoming a surname.

Parrato is a surname that appears several times in the family archives.

Parratto handed the old letters to the historian, saying the documents had been in his family for generations.