Love these birds!

2:10 Centuries ago? Really? Hell, the late 1700s is when the British just landed on Australian soil!

Not sure why you’re celebrating exotic birds ending up in countries that are completely wrong for them?? You’re either not aware of the illegal exotic bird trade or somehow think it’s ok. Not cool.

American seem to allow animals there from all over the world look no native pythons yet Florida is overrun with the Thailand python

I go into a black hole when I read something like this, there is a little Galah next door, that's been in a cage that barely affords wingspan,for over ten years, there doesn't seem to be any law that can protect it, the reptilian neighbor is aware of my opinion about it but doesn't care, I want to take it somewhere to rehabilitate to its natural state and then let it fly free, to me it is disgusting to keep a little bird that can live for over twenty years in a small cage like that and then also be totally ignored, here we have dogs barking at night, I have to sleep with ear plugs in my ears, how does that little bird sleep?, it is in a living hell.

@@user-vc7wg6hc2w ​at that point, all you can do is try to break into his house when he's gone for more than a few days and then anonymously bring the bird to a bird rescue. Although its extreme, I'm happy to help you try to do it if you ever want to since animal welfare's much more important than property.

While I agree, birds need to be free, I know plenty of people who keep birds in large cages and treat them well. I am a little weary of you though, dogs bark every where, sure you not just a male Karen, you sound like a neighbour every one would regret having ?

​​@@busarob1969 we don't have enough data to know she's a Karen, so far it seems she just might be an empathic human. I've had a bird like this and they are incredibly intelligent and aware and can easily go into depression eventually needing human drugs like SSRIs and anxiolytics/benzos.

@@user-vc7wg6hc2w I always wanted to have a decent size aviary with native birds but I thought twice and decided against it. We live on the edge of the NSW south coast escarpment and have around 40 of these visit us most afternoons....along with six magpies, five kookas, six mountain lorikeets, sometimes king parrots. Who needs an aviary?

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How appropriate!

oh they TOTALLY think they're pterodactyls!!!!!!! Thevideo really fails to capture just how loud they are in real life too, a single one is as loud as a jet engine taking off, but they love to form large flocks to fly around screaming, just for fun (but they're also totally silent for those that feed them, they know if they turn up screaming, they won't get fed)

There's a lot of stores that stock earplugs...inexpensive too. They have been around almost as long as Pterodactyls...we haven't.

Pterodactyl is not a thing. Pteranodon does but not that invalid species

We can totally understand that!

"our" cockatoos?...they inhabit most of the lands east of the great dividing range.

They could be destructive 😅

Wow. Good for THEM. 😮😮😊

Serves them right! 1-0 for the cockatoos!

Who is the smart and pretty cocky now?

Treat or trick! They are the avengers of the loss of their lands...

Unfortunately they are considered a pest, and I am a bird lover.

And they're betting of living in freedom ❤️

@@terramater They are way better than homo sapiens is, all humans wants to do is destroy nature and the planet. No animal out there would do anything close to what homo sapiens does.

Little birds aren't that hard, though you still have to spend much time with them, but it is fun to play and interact with them. but large ones yeah, only for few people who can afford a large space for them and free flight

People don’t realize bird poop can cause breathing problems

Thanx for doing so. Ur so right. But once u get used to them, they do make marvellous pets. But you will live w towels on ur sofas, and won’t buy wooden furniture.

You’re right. I live in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and we have them here and they are naughty, loud, attention seeking toddlers who outsmart most people. But they are incredibly affectionate and disarming, and such great mimics that you’d have to have a heart of stone not to melt at their antics. Incredibly entertaining….they are born performers.

Yes! It's quite nice to see the positive balance between them!

@@terramater definitely!

We have to agree with you!

how interesting is that! The notes prob look pretty cool!

damage your nerves too, I had that a few months back, had a new one join my family & when I put my hand in front of it & moved it's bowl, it wasn't used to it & really bite me & for about 2 months I had a numb finger above the bite cause of how it crushed the nerve! Finger did eventually recover & regular family chased that bully off too & I got my usuals back - who know me & trust me & don't bite me like that!

They're so coool! But we get you 😅

Look at the mess humans make, look at the state of the planet!

Oh please. The never ending effort to link parrots to dinosaurs 🦖 knock yourself out.

@@coralreef909 I know that birds came from dinosaurs, what's your problem with facts?

@@elzelinakriek-breet3092 we make an even bigger mess, sadly yes.

Birds are the best!

Pigeons are very smart too, I wonder why there's a double standard in seeing them as "flying diseased rats".. they don't poop or make a bigger mess than the cockatoos.. I have chased magpies and crows from my yard and when they try to break in to my garbage or steal my dogs toys etc, but I admire them too. Very smart and beautiful.

@@einienj3281 "Pigeons are very smart too", I was in Penang in a hotel room laying on the bed and got disturbed by a scratching sound, looked up to the corner of the room and saw what looked like a long "Allen key" a piece of metal with an elbow bend poking through the slit between the little door and wall and what ever was on the end of it was trying to turn it around to try and open the little air vent. Went outside and saw it was a Pigeon! trying to get inside, it clearly had worked out in its little head that it need an "L" type tool to get behind the little door to pull it open!

It's a old PR stunt, they are just disliked by companies because they are adaptive (and occasionally get in the way). As all pigeons in big cities are feral (as in descended from strays) and they are still nonplussed by living in the same places after all the time being our pets and companions. It's even estimated by some accounts that we have been breeding various doves for longer than we have had cats.@@einienj3281

@@einienj3281 "crows" get some of the same treatment pigeons get. It's to do with imports vs natives. Generally those that love "crows" will call them by their species name too, "Australian ravens" while those who are marginalising them ready to attack will tend to call them "crows" & in doing so, imply they are foreigners that don't belong here & are therefore fine to hate, in the same way they do for pigeons. I've never heard anyone in Australia have a bad word for the native top knot pigeons

Birds should be free to fly ❤️

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Australia is not the only country with native cockatoo populations. Other cockatoo parrot species occur in Indonesia, New Guinea and the Philippines as well as the rest of Oceania.

I am in Turkey now, but I would love to come and call my cockatiel in Australia and he will sing there.💚💛😍

I have one that's 12 years old. I always tell people don't get them. THey are loud, a lot of work; if you can't provide the affection, and time, they will be sad. both my parents are retired hence they have him.

why do you think the wild ones are so popular in Australia? It's for exactly this reason, getting a pet one is a HUGE commitment, so why do that when there's an alternative available of simply having however many "pet" cockatoos come to visit you daily & then being able to say "bye bye, see you tomorrow" when you've had enough & let them go off & entertain themselves & equally, when you go on holidays or die, not a problem, birds have multiple "owners" they share their love & attention with. I personally have 9 "pet" sulphur crested cockatoos. I've had some of them from only around 2 months old & some I inherited at at least 20 years old, when a neighbour of mine who previously "owned" them died. & btw, they are only "velcro birds" because they are being denied their natural family in captivity. When they are spending their days with another 10-20 birds & also visiting multiple groups of the same size regularly, they don't become "velcro birds", as they are well socialised & so have no need to be emotionally needy & maladjusted

Cockatoos and all such birds native to Australia are just that. Native and do not make good pets. They are abandoned in numbers when people realise how loud intelligent and destructive they are. They are not PETS. They belong free to fly and entertain us with their antics down under.

Same applies to other parrots like macaws for example.

@@mehere8038umbrellas are native to islands 🌴 in Indonesia. Greater sulphur crested cockatoos are Australian parrots. They also occur naturally in New Guinea.

But they eat bread themselves! May not be good for them but if you watched the video the cockies swoop on anything! Like the ibis - I see them all the time overturning garbage bins & eating whatever!

Cashews and almonds are also fattening, introduced plants. They need native grass seed and whatever else they eat out in the scrub. I expect urban ones will have drastically shortened but luxurious lives. Much like a lot of humans.

@@flowerpower8722 best realistic option is to make them work for mixed wild bird seed. I put seed into dog smart toys for mine, so they have to work to get each seed, in much the same way they would naturally have to forage to get that much seed via smaller grass seeds. Can also soak or spout the seed to increase nutritional value for them. In captivity, they can be fed fresh veggies, but in the wild, try that & they'll just find someone else offering them seed, or go to the bins & not sure on shortened lives, I suspect it will be much like modern humans vs ancient ones, less deaths from starvation etc but more from heart disease etc, so not sure what that does to life expectancy overall

If you think that sunflower seeds are fattening but the others mentioned are not you should look up the calorific value of all of them.

I only see pigeon like to eat breads

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They are!

way smarter than pigeons or bin chickens.

They’re actually Parrots. Maybe the most flamboyant members of the entire parrot family with their beautiful crest and giant personalities to match. Pigeons have nothing on them. Australia is regarded as the land of parrots.

Way smarter than chickens

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You’re strange. You’re aren’t funny at all.

They’re so cool! We’re sorry so to hear about the frame of you bedroom 😅

I have one that occasionally taps on my kitchen window. I don’t feed him because I don’t want him vindictively destroying my 87 year old windows if I skip his meals 😅

honestly though he's not the only one, I've been using dog smart toys to feed mine for years. It's good for them to have stimulation & be required to work for food instead of just getting it free. I think a LOT of regular feeders have always been making them do various tricks & puzzles for food.

Yet on the other side of our nation in the south west there are campaigns to look after the beautiful Yellow winged Black Cocratoo, the Red winged Black Cockatoo and several other species that are becoming extinct as a result of mankind moving in. Informative videos can be found.

@@flamingfrancis yeh, the black cockatoos don't do well with humans :( They used to be native to Sydney & in significant numbers, while the white ones were only visitors

@@flamingfrancis We have two generations (two pairs) living on our rural property. The main reason they're so endangered is because they ONLY eat the seeds from nuts of the native acacia, and with so much land clearing going on (and with unpredictable seasons meaning the acacia doesn't always produce well) they're losing this singular food source. We have a lot of native acacias growing on out property, hence why they stay here. They're also very shy and quiet birds (just chatter among themselves, but it's quiet) and they mate for life and will generally only hang around in that pair, sometimes two pairs if you're lucky, never a flock like most other Cockatoos.

they are noisy as and come in groups pull all the new baby grass off the lawn every year. 🙄

@@anthonyj7989 I have similar but with pigeons. 😂❤️

It's fine once in a grand while, a bite or two won't hurt a parrot. BUT they should not have it regularly, may as well be like fast food with how unhealthy it is to them.

@@chey7691 these aren’t parrots they’re cockatoos and a lot of people feed them bread every day

@@georgiasumby6092 um cockatoos are a species within the parrot family. The beak shape is the give away. Sunflowers alone are also really bad for them, best to give them a mix of different seeds if going down the feed to attract route. Additionally, they need to work for their food. For mine, I have a number of different dog smart toys that I put seed into & they need to push the balls or spin the tube to access food hidden inside them. Smart toys for cockies need to have significant weight to them, otherwise they steal them & can be seen sitting at the top of trees shredding them lol. Same thing if fed in plates, I occasionally use bowls to dish out the food & they'll try to steal them & fly off with them & then sit at the top of the gumtree delicately holding the bowl with one foot while eating it seed by seed as they watch the world go by. Sometimes they even actually return the bowl for more when finished, rather than just dropping it into neighbour's yards

@@mehere8038 yes I know that sunflower seeds are bad for them I WORK WITH BLACK COCKATOOS. But these are WILD BORN birds and sunflower seeds are readily available in stores across Australia so giving them something that’s while not the best for them is better then bread

These native birds are feeders on native flora and plant species...native nuts, large grasses etc. They seek out fruit trees etc in suburbia. Bread alone is not desirable BUT it is not the bread but moreso the mould that develops in bread that causes intternal issues on digestion. When I have seen Black Cockatoos here in eastern coast it isn't uncommon to see then festing on pine cones.

Oh, and, what would you say, better than an alarm?

We also have a video about raccoons in Toronto 🦝 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/braVqNxhq6uYiGw.html

Come visit us at the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney…we have so many wild parrots here you’d be entertained for years…I get King parrots visiting my home everyday, demanding almonds !

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That's so nice of you, we're so happy about that! Thanks for watching our videos! 🥰

You should visit Australia if you love animals like the cockies :) A lot of these videos are from the Botanical Gardens, just behind the Opera House, right in the middle of Sydney & those feeding & photographing with them at that location are all tourists - come to Sydney & you can just wander down to the Botanical Gardens & have the cockies greet you & welcome you to Australia :) Be sure to visit places like the Australian Reptile Park or other parks designed for locals, rather than just the major zoos if you do come here. Zoos do tourist experiences with the wildlife, whereas the former just give the animals "rest areas" with a rope & sign saying no humans past the rope & otherwise they just leave all the animals running loose amongst the humans to allow really full on interactions if that's what the humans want. They sell little cups of proper food for them that people can buy to make sure they get the perfect interactions & photos too :) Park staff sort of supervise, they can be seen wandering around draped in snakes & lizards & will intervene if people (normally little kids) are really annoying a particular animal, but otherwise they're really just there to let people play with the snakes & take photos with them & learn about them. We love our wildlife in Australia & grow up living alongside them & being educated on them by places like the above, so as to instil a further love of them in all our children, that in turn they pass on to their children & so on

They're sooo cute! Thank you for watching it!

But imagine how angry everyone would be if it was a child, an adult or a homeless person doing this! I wish people could be a little more understanding and constructive towards each other.

@@bilgeninekran I understand you, but I think you should not compare it. There’s different people in homeless people as well. Some are really helpless, and some other very very destructive, even if offered work, even if offered food, etc. we just cannot compare everything

Thank you for watching it!

They're so cute!

Good idea......'And on todays news, Sydney cockatoos are starting to hog the bench press at suburban gyms to solve their wheelie- bin access issues'....

I think you're missing the point of what you are seeing in this video! People in Australia very rarely have pet parrots, other than injured wild ones they rescued to prevent euthinasia. There is no need to have a pet parrot if you can have a whole family of parrots as your "pets", coming to visit you daily, then flying off again after their daily interaction with you. It's the perfect option for pet birds! Also, I really don't think you are the right person to have a pet parrot if you think it's a "jail sentence". I have 2 pet rescue lorikeets, that were badly abused & have severe emotional issues as a result & need constant attention & interaction & a cage on wheels, cause they refuse to leave it, but get distressed if I go into another room without them, but I certainly don't see it as a jail sentence, I see them as invigorating & feel a special bond. Saying it's a "jail sentence" is like saying having a human baby is a jail sentence. People with that attitude really should find something different to do with their life!

I am in Turkey now, but I would love to come and call my cockatiel in Australia and he will sing there.😍💚

Good to know! They are pretty cool!

Thank you!

That's pretty cool!

They look so cool!

they are brilliant things, live in Sydney and feed them a modest ration of natural almonds every other day. When they learn to trust you and drop their guard they are magic to spend time with. Like all wild creatures do not overfeed though as you can change their natural behaviour, just a couple of almonds and a conversation, perfect tonic to a stressful days work.

​@@jbrown5641 ❤ ur comment! Wish I lived there! ❤❤❤

How cute!

there are so so many on the north shore, I miss them so much since I recently left sydney 😟

Magpies knock on my door.

there's clearly weekday only feeders on the north shore. I get gangs of them on the weekends too, My weekend ones tend to be a little bit badly behaved. I have a weekday family as well, who arrive & sit quietly & wait for me, giving a quite little "hello/I'm here for dinner" call on arrival & then just sit quietly waiting till I'm ready. I also have toys for them & they play with those while waiting patiently each day :). If I take too long though, they do go to their next feeding location & then there next, there's numerous units near me that I see them visiting & sitting on railings at, waiting for food at different times of the day. They obviously have a schedule of who to visit when lol

It's really fascinating to see it!

Fires, drought, and easy living.

If you think about it, humans are really the invasive species.

Thanks for watching it :)

Thanks for watching it!

That's a pretty exciting project, right?!

Interesting visitors you have!

Correct, it's the hard I sound, Bond-I.

You need to give them toys :) I mostly give mine bells, but also select pet toys. I'm very careful to choose ones that won't encourage chewing, but that will allow them to "mouth" different textures to meet that need them seem to have. They really like macrame cotton ropes I've hung various things only & kinda like things like natural leather & various natural rope type textures, such as seagrass, jute, sisal etc. Plastic, colourful kids/baby toy parts they like too. Shadecloth they like mouthing too Mine know my lattice is out of bounds for chewing, but anything hanging on a particular landing perch I've made for them is fine to chew & explore & I feed with dog smart toys too, so as to give their minds a workout & give them that stimulation they need to stop them shredding my home

Perth, especially the south west cormer, is also home of large numbers of the two species of Black Cockatoos,,Barnaby's,Gang gangs etc. Reports of their numbers diminishing are well known. Cockatoos have good memories and known to not like having their traditional habitats destroyed.

Hi @Onion_Knights! They are pretty neat aren't they ☺️

@@terramater yes, very

Really?! We need to rewatch it!

They're so gorgeous!

Thanks for your feedback!

Right?!

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Thanks for the feedback and for watching it!

They look so cool!

It's awesome, but not sure if "dream" is quite the right word for a flock of pterodactyls that love to fly around screaming at the volume of a jet engine taking off, as soon as the sun comes up (so 5am or earlier in summer). Dream busters more like it lol. Then people wonder why Australia has an "early riser culture" rather than a late night one lol

And here I thought feeding wildlife in Australia was illegal...

@@luminouspositivity3243 not illegal, that could never be enforced. Is discouraged in many cases/by many people, due to what people feed them, but in modern times, those that used to take that path have started to change strategy & choose to educate on good food, rather than insist on no feeding. Some councils do ban feeding in particular areas where there are problems with large numbers of birds, due to large amounts of feeding

Many supermarkets and certainly produce stores stock Wild Bird seed mix. It is not ALL breads that are harmful, those with high seed content that do not develop mould as quickly are not harmful like the fully processed flour breads. It is the mould in breads that is harmful.

@@flamingfrancis nope, not the mould, Bread offers wild birds absolutely ZERO nutrition. Simply, bread fills up a small stomach in a hurry. The bird doesn't know the food is useless, but leaves feeling full and satisfied, nonetheless. This is a deadly combination of factors.

Oh no! Hope next time you see one 🥰

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"wildlife corridors" of trees throughout cities is the first step to getting there. Building habitats for them within backyards comes next, so nest boxes etc to replace lost tree hollows. Seems to me you already have at least some of this stuff anyway though but don't appreciate it. I think racoons are adorable, I'd love to build a box for one to live in & have it visit me daily for a feed & to say hello in the way the cockies & possums & lorikeets & all the other wildlife do at my apartment in Australia, but so many there seem to hate instead of encouraging racoons. I don't get that

Introduced Deer species have become a problem here in Australia too. For some time they have been "coming down from the mountain" into some suburbs, following creeks and grassed areas. I am aware of one local council that has had eardication programs

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True that!

We're also happy about this project, it's a game changer! Thanks for watching our videos 🥰

They're so cool!

Really?! Crazy!

They’d easily chew through those if they wanted to. These are birds that can take apart wooden cladding on houses 😄

Thanks for the suggestion!

@@terramater wait it's actually good?

​@@terramateralso the cassawarys , Thank You a great video loved it ❤

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yup, plenty of galahs. Main loss is to small birds, due to the prevalence of meat eating larger ones such as magpies, currawongs, butcherbirds etc. Cockies, lorikeets, possums, owls, kookaburras & a range of others all fight over nest sites, which is where human provided artificial ones are so important. Even so, PBFD is a major problem, due to nest hollows not getting rests between breeding cycles. Lorikeets in particular are carriers & opportunistic breeders, so they will breed as soon as the cockies have finished & anytime there's a hollow free & next round of other parrot babies is then exposed to fresh PBFD microbes in the nest

@@mehere8038 Interesting info, thanks. I know in my area in QLD the tiny little finches and wrens have completely disappeared (to my eyes, anyway) a good 15 years ago. Another thing I just recently became conscious of is common sparrows have completely disappeared in the last few years.

@@flowerpower8722 But that will happen with ANY species that is affected as their feeding areas become developed for suburbia If areas near you are being developed they don't have that to feed on and are likely to move on.

They're quite smart!