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This is the image for sulfur crested cockatoos on wikipedia, which I think sums up their behavior perfectly: I wish we got them on the west coast, instead we get corellas who are assholes.
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I know there are a few shopping centres around where they have to fix signage most years because of damage by corellas.
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Apr 16, 2015 14:53
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Battle Pigeon posted:Are they destructive towards your house or whatever? Like either just for fun, or because you weren't fast enough with the seeds so they destroy your porch until you come out and appease them? they drop poo poo pot plant on a table? that's getting dragged off remember how i said they sort of peer in? they do that after they drop something to see if anyone noticed GoldStandardConure posted:This is the image for sulfur crested cockatoos on wikipedia, which I think sums up their behavior perfectly: lmao
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Apr 16, 2015 15:35
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I never realized wild cockatoos are so fearless, but I guess when you're on a continent without many predators and you have an impressive beak...
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Apr 16, 2015 16:17
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Frogmanv2 posted:I know there are a few shopping centres around where they have to fix signage most years because of damage by corellas. Little corellas are the smuggest looking cockatoo
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Apr 16, 2015 16:18
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:continent without many predators  i literally petted one of the cockatoos today, they hate it but for some reason "take food from existing pile of food" is less interesting than "try to get the human to feed me" and the price of that is i'm going to pet them
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Apr 16, 2015 16:27
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GoldStandardConure posted:This is the image for sulfur crested cockatoos on wikipedia, which I think sums up their behavior perfectly: Haha, I love this. They're like Kea except instead of just being smart they each embody the soul of the devil.
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Apr 16, 2015 18:14
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loving Stupid Screaming Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlkCBsUKLQ ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Video author posted:At my old house we planted an almond tree thinking "we'll get free almonds every year it'll be sweet" but all we got was free loving flocks of cockatoos screaming every morning and eating all our loving almonds Commenter posted:If you think that's bad, you should hear my family's pet parrot. If it's in a bad mood and you leave him alone to use the bathroom or something, then get ready to hear screaming and squawking loud enough to be heard in every room of the house and probably for 10 meters outside the house. Video author posted:You poor person. Why would your family willingly subject themself to birds?
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Apr 16, 2015 19:43
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I love the one sitting at the top, looking all puffy and contented. "Ah. Cockatoo lyfe."
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Apr 16, 2015 20:14
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I feel like the only reason why cockatiels aren't the same level of rear end in a top hat is that only the derp part of the cockatoo brain survived the shrinking process intact and only vestigial remains of trollbird remain.
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Apr 16, 2015 22:25
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We live on the east coast, and had a large flock of rare black cockatoos that lived in this huge dead tree just behind the house where we lived for a time. I used to get into screaming contests with them. I used to find baby birds all the time, usually rainbow lorikeets (which are objectively the best bird), and once convinced a young crow to walk halfway home after me from the bus, at which point I got bored of gentle encouragements and just grabbed him. He was displeased, but enjoyed the mince dinner I had. Been thinking recently about getting some form of bird, be it chickens or a more traditional bird, but not sure I can commit to the interactivity, though I know I'd enjoy it.
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Apr 16, 2015 23:24
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McGiggins posted:
Only on the east coast. Over here they are a massive problem.
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Apr 17, 2015 01:05
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Only a monster doesn't love lorikeets.
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Sekkira posted:Only a monster doesn't love lorikeets. I own one, so I'm still on in he fence about loving them, but they are still a massive problem over here. They out compete for the best nesting spots with the native birds and are putting pressure on them that they really don't need.
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Apr 17, 2015 01:32
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I do recall seeing a shopping center roof in the south west literally covered with thousands of the little guys, and I thought that was pretty cool.
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Apr 17, 2015 01:33
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When I stayed at my uncle's place near Cairns, there was a flock of Cockatoos that would fly over us every day at 7am screaming their damned heads off. Welcome to paradise indeed.
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Apr 17, 2015 02:41
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My suburb has thousands of rainbow lorikeets in it, along with a poo poo load of corellas and a lone solitary green Indian ring neck. Its a very noisy place to live.
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Apr 17, 2015 02:41
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Mizuti posted:loving Stupid Screaming Bird oh my god, that reminds me i had one of those birds (wild) it would flap down to my house like all the others and do that piteous "ehhhhhhh" whining noise because it wanted to be fed but not food from the tray, oh no, it wanted to be handfed. except it wouldn't let me go near it, so it would beg the other cockatoos to feed it (who wouldn't do it because food is right there you dumb gently caress) it's a baby who hasn't grown up, you can see it's making that noise at the other cockatoo in the video
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Dreggon posted:it would beg the other cockatoos to feed it (who wouldn't do it because food is right there you dumb gently caress) Jade still does what we call her "Beggy wings" in the morning when we are getting ready for work (and thus not going to let her out) or on top of her cage for reasons I have yet to discern. Crouch, tilt head up, wings halfway extended, flapflapflapflap
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Apr 17, 2015 05:12
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Tasty_Crayon posted:Jade still does what we call her "Beggy wings" in the morning when we are getting ready for work (and thus not going to let her out) or on top of her cage for reasons I have yet to discern. Though she doesn't flap so much as her entire body trembles as she goes "waaarrrk!"
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Apr 17, 2015 05:20
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Taco does the wobblewings routine when he wants to be picked up or let out of his cage. And if we don't he just lets out a dissatisfied "bleh!" at us.
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Apr 17, 2015 05:58
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We call them flappies, Ritz does it when he wants something but can't be bothered to fly to it. Pick me up, give me coconut water, take me where you are, bring me the brush so I can attack it without putting in much effort, etc.
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Apr 17, 2015 07:09
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My mum just told me about a blue female quaker thats free that belongs to a dead woman that her kids dont want to keep. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i can see this being a very bad idea
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Apr 17, 2015 08:54
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Ama begs when he wants me to carry him somewhere, usually so that he can stare into the bedroom or bathroom for a few seconds which was really important because ????. All of our birds are giant (wo)man-babies.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:My mum just told me about a blue female quaker thats free that belongs to a dead woman that her kids dont want to keep. Do it, IMO. Rescue the blue quaker gal.
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Apr 17, 2015 14:37
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chthonic bell posted:Do it, IMO. Rescue the blue quaker gal. And then post pictures. 
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Apr 17, 2015 14:54
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Seriously, Quakers are awesome.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:My mum just told me about a blue female quaker thats free that belongs to a dead woman that her kids dont want to keep. Sounds like a very good idea to the rest of us, and we outnumber you. Quaker! (Though realistically why would it be a bad idea)
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Apr 17, 2015 15:06
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Chili posted:Seriously, Quakers are awesome.  Q-Q-Q-Q-QUAKER QUB
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i assume you generally don't let them outside but does anyone know how well pet birds interact with wild birds?
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Dreggon posted:i assume you generally don't let them outside but does anyone know how well pet birds interact with wild birds? Poorly. The possibility for disease and parasite transmission alone makes it a very bad idea.
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  I've determined that Ammy's favorite fruit is pineapple.
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BloodWulfe posted:
So adorable! I love his beak color.  Posts like this make me want to immediately pet my own birb.
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BloodWulfe posted:
Such a tiny conure birb Dreggon posted:i assume you generally don't let them outside but does anyone know how well pet birds interact with wild birds? When Ohtori goes out on the harness (not for a long time now though) at first he was frightened of pigeons, but that very quickly turned to ignoring them. Crows are always regarded with extreme suspicion. There aren't many other kinds of birds around
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I have determined that cockatoos make the worst begging sounds in the animal kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcqlveexTLA aaaaaaaaaaaaa. aaaaaaaaaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UGjqIvPMY waaaaAAAHHHaaaHHHaaa As cool as parrots are, I wouldn't want them as neighbors. Especially with their ever-hungry fledglings. Good thing that adult pet parrots don't make these cries when they want something from you!
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My dad's cockatiel made that noise when we first brought it home, we called it "static bird" It was horrible.
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Eejit posted:Poorly. The possibility for disease and parasite transmission alone makes it a very bad idea. Not to mention that they have no flock to hang out with and have no idea how to survive in the wild by themselves.
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eeeeeh lookitdatlittlebirb 
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Mizuti posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UGjqIvPMY yep, definitely had one doing that a while back
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Its a bad idea because I already have a male Qauker and I like him being friends with me and not trying to impress a lady bird. Also cost and time getting it to realise that her old humans not coming back and shes gotta be friends with me now. I'm not 100% sure i can do that, I've seen what Quakers do to people they are used too but don't handle them much, let alone a complete stranger.
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