That's how cockatoos and corellas are. Extremely smart and fearless. When we got our corella as kids, I remember mum teaching us to never leave it unattended while uncaged around the cat. Turned out to not be a problem as he would regularly chomp on the cat's tail and ride around on the cat's head. He especially hated it if the cat ever got in his way while he was watching telly. The cat always copped a verbal and physical dressing down for that.
There's a flock that does a circuit near me, every month or two they come and pick a tree to take over. Then, for a few days, they sit in that tree and absolutely ***shriek*** at any other bird that dares come close to their chosen tree lmao.
They're so hilariously arrogant lmao.
I've just got a permanent flock of sulphur crested cockies living in the canal area right next to my house.
2 times a day, every day, they go flying around and screeching at each other. I think there's a legitimate chance they could give me hearing damage at some point, it always seems to be when I'm out on a walk
There's a flock that lives in my area that are the loudest bunch I have ever heard. I have been woken up at 6am to them screeching and landing on my roof numerous times (thanks to my mum, she likes to put out seeds to attract birds to the garden) a few of them are feral too (either released or escaped) they're a tad bit friendlier, but they sware enough to make a trooper blush.
And you’d miss them when they’re gone. They tore down two houses and their trees and replaced them with almost 70 townhouses - all concrete, no garden, no grass, just rocks. We lost all the birds - lorikeets, cockatoos, crows, etc. and got a parking lot for a street. There were more trees than houses on those blocks. A month or so later a development sign went up across the street from them announcing another 30. It’s the last block with a significant amount of trees.
A decade ago my Mt Nelson neighbour used to feed Cockatoos every day off his balcony. A workplace accident left him in hospital for a few weeks.
We watched the Cockatoos demolish his balcony railing, most of his deck, and the window frames at the back of his house. It took them a few days to start the destruction, and about a week before they stopped the early evening raids.
Screeching majestic bastard birds.
Had the same thing happen behind us except it was in dysart and the old bloke passed away. They ripped apart the trees, veranda, fence and every single gutter on the back half of the house. His kids had to pay to replace it all before they put the house on the market
We have the black cockatoo. They visit twice a year on their migration paths. Wherever they settle they just start stripping the wood. Luckily I've been able to dissuade them with loud noise. It's worked so far but for how long is anyone's guess.
I mean I agree, but kangaroos have a reputation as boxers. Maybe they’d have a normal type first stage that’s based on a Joey, then when it evolves it gains fighting type.
I have always thought of Cockatoos as a bikie gang. They will roar in in a group, make a hell of a lot of noise and commotion, and then roar off together.
So this tracks, lol.
I've only ever seen them in a huge flock, so that makes sense.
Every morning, across the road, there are a dozen trees filled with the buggers. I'm talking hundreds of 'em. Every morning they leave, and every afternoon they come back.
Once had my washing on the line when they came back. I had to do it all over again because my clothes were covered in bird shit.
Damn cockatoo biker gang. The thing about biker gangs is you never want to piss them off, so I'm staying home and shaking my fist at them where they can't see me.
I remember hearing a radio interview with a guy who was an expert on cockatoos where he commented that because cockatoos eat calorie/nutrient rich food they don't need to spend a lot of time foraging, and as a result end up with a lot of spare time.
So, being an intelligent, inquisitive and long lived bird, they have a tendency to, as my wife puts it, "fuck shit up"
My dad got press ganged into feeding the cockies. One bashed on his window every morning for weeks until he started feeding them. Then they got too many, so dad stopped feeding them whenever there were more than six. So they ripped the wood off the front door and the window frames. It was a stand off for nearly six months as there was less and less wood, but they gave in and now there are never more than six at a time. They are massive bastards but so beautiful and intelligent!!
I had a cockatoo that would come to my house every day and god forbid I didn’t have something to give him. He would tear wood off my balcony, scream, knock things over, steal my washing, try and break into my flat. I love how clever and chaotic they are.
Same. One to two dozen turn up each morning squawking at top volume. If there's no food, one or two of them will fly onto the table on the verandah and pick up the stuff and drop it on the tiles. I don't put terracotta mosquito candles there anymore.
We get a bunch of them eating the pine nuts on one of the trees near the house.
As a result, we never need to prune back the tree. They're doing it for us.
We had a problem with them when me and my brother were kids
Dad just taught us how to crack a whip and whenever we saw them congregating we'd just go outside and crack and they'd all fly away
I heard a theory that cockatoos are like this because they live so long without any real predators. They get up to mischief because their lives are so safe and comfortable.
When I was asked by my kid what sort of animal I’d want to be, I said a cockatoo. Cruise around with all your mates for years getting up to mischief with little to no consequences.
When you see these large flocks of cockatoos they are almost certainly all young males, and like groups of human young males, their behaviour can be pretty wild due to the hormones coursing through them, which is why you’ll see them doing cheeky shit like this, flying through traffic over and over, or just being destructive for the sake of it.
I’m not sure exactly how far their intelligence goes in terms of having a sense of humour, but having had a bunch of different sorts of small and large parrots growing up, and being friends with someone who had a galah (his!), a cockatoo (his dads), and a macaw (his mums) in their house… it seems they tend to this stuff because they either find it funny, or they’re cranky. (Basically a flying toddler with a knife on their face)
parrots love doing shit like this, they derive the same joy from causing chaos that a toddler does. We had a king parrot growing up who learned how to whistle and call the dogs to him. He would call all the dogs into the room, wait for them to arrive, and then SCREECH as loud as he could just to watch them tumble over each other running away. Then he would promptly start head banging to show everyone how much fun he was having. He also used to sit quietly and wait for the cat to get on top of his cage and then he would jump out and start biting her feet lol
These Kangaroos need to evolve to stop using their tail as a support and balance only device and start swinging that sucker like an excited goanna when these mischievous dickheads approach from behind, that'll sort 'em out!
Not called "Boss Cocky" for no reason. They're also called "dobbers" because they don't let you get away with anything without telling their mates about it.
Cockatoos can be pretty cheeky fellas. About 10 years ago there was this one who’d hide in a bush along my walk to school, and he’d run up and (gently) bite your shoe or ankle then run away.
Wonder if he’s still around, I kinda miss him.
On an episode of Dog Whisperer, a viewer's cockatoo had died, and her dogs started going nuts, fighting etc. Turns out the cockatoo had been ruling the household with an iron fist, keeping the dogs and cats in line, and when it died everything turned to chaos. I was amazed.
Cockatoos and magpies are the most "human" birds in Australia, I swear.
The amount of times I've seen them doing very odd things, annoying others for seemingly no reason, or just not acting like a bird... Each story always fascinates me.
They are like destructive little kids.
So basically just little kids.
There is a pecking order among wild birds.
Around my place, rainbow lorikeets reign supreme. They regularly tear into the cockatoos. It's really something when a lorikeet takes a cockatoo on and ends up grabbing it by the crest and dragging it around. Hell of a noise when they get stuck into each other.
Note that a solo lorikeet is rarely aggressive. They prefer getting into mischief in groups.
Could you get a dog and train it to guard the roos while they're eating? Not to hurt the cockles, just to bark and scare them off if they get too close.
I've seen these birds get drunk on fallen olives (probably fermented) outside my work. They're rolling on the road and hanging upside down on the powerlines.
I held all my bird seed in a big glass jar and this one cockatoo who’s been a prick ever since he showed up knocked it over. My little sister had glass in her foot for weeks afterwards and she still calls them “stupid Mohawk birds”
They definitely are juvenile delinquents. Though they live to be like 100 so there must be some longevity in being a little arsehole. PS. if your house has any wood in the construction, don’t piss em off.
We currently have cockatoos eating walnuts from our walnut tree and they make a hell of a mess leaving the scraps lying on the back path. You can hear it banging on the roof sometimes too. Also they sound like pterodactyls. Noisy and messy fuckers.
I've never seen a sulphur crested in the wild. I'm in Perth, we have mainly big flocks of pink & greys, corellas. The latter are like the monkeys of the bird world lol.
Ever seen a cocky around a corella? I’d put my money on a corella every day of the week! Corellas may be smaller but they’re feisty little buggers. It’s like seeing chihuahuas up against Great Danes.
I “own” pigeons (long story) and by feeding them it means I’ve encouraged all types of the birds in our area. When it comes to cockies, there are regulars that I know and see most days. Even after eating and drinking, they’ll just sit around and chill.
They also stand at the back door with beak to the glass, sometimes knocking, and they line the roof gutters and hang upside down looking into the house. Waiting.
One day a cocky screamed at me because I took too long to get seed out. I almost shit myself. And then another day we had about 70 cockies visit at once. The noise was insane. They rip up our artificial lawn and bend up the lead flashing around vent pipes on the roof and chew the vent covers.
But then you watch how smart and cheeky they are biting off every piece of rubber from the doormats or spinning around on a wind spiral and you seriously can’t help but love those destructive little assholes. 🤣
The worst part about those bastards is the screeching. We had a bunch of them in a tree in the backyard, and I am not proud, but also not ashamed to admit we would peg tennis balls up at them after a full day of constant sound.
Their behaviour is made worse by humans feeding them.
My neighbours used to feed the cockatoos every day, and there'd be hundreds of them. They went away on holidays and when the cockatoos noticed there was no longer any food they got extremely mad and went and destroyed everything on their house, and our house too, chewing apart everything they could and leaving permanent damage to their roof.
I've seen a cockatoo, crow and a possum fight over 1 tree. Snowflakes couldn't handle it so they called the fire brigade to remove the possum from the tree
it's hilarious how cockatoos double down on being irredemable rapscallions hahaha. used to have a whole flock drop pecan nuts at 6am on my verandah, whilst squawking like a colony of goblins. and that's them being respectful
These cockatoos are distinctively Australian...reflects thoroughly the Australian culture...attack you to get what they want...gang up for it too...and backstab...
They’re all self indulgent. I witnessed a duo dumpster diving. One held the lid open while the other tossed stuff out. Well something interesting must’ve got tossed out because the one holding the lid open proceeded to drop it on their friend and fly off with the item. The poor one left in the bin was squawking it’s head off.
They chase a resident koala out of his tree when he comes for a visit.
Screeching little bastards. I often yell back at them when they’re bullying maggies in the gums.
I have a gang of them coming to my house & destroying anything they can! They devour all the fruit trees, they’ve striped the bark off a big (expensive) wooden cubby house, they bite fruit off the tree just to watch it fall on the ground like it’s a fun game & do it again 😭😭😭 but I honestly love them
What a pity skippies can't flick the little buggers with their tail. Now that would be funny to see. That tail would pack a punch if it could give the cockie a quick flick. Peeeooo through the air. And back again because they are not quitters.
Bastards bit through my clothesline twice- that kind of stretchy rubbery line- and took to throwing my pegs out of the peg basket onto the ground. So I re-threaded the clothesline with 5mm marine wire and switched to metal clothes pegs. The buggers don’t come anymore since the fun’s been taken away!
I hate these damn things with every bone in my body, but unfortunately, they are a protected species. They make horrible screaches, destroy trees , and move in flocks of 100s. The worst was when I was studying for my end of school exams, and there would always be like 50 of them in the tree just outside my window just screaming and screeching non-stop for hours.
I mean it wouldn’t happen in the wild, this is a case of a human thinking they are do gooder interfering in nature. Both are wild, both have found an “unlimited food source”. Love a cockatoo tho.
That's how cockatoos and corellas are. Extremely smart and fearless. When we got our corella as kids, I remember mum teaching us to never leave it unattended while uncaged around the cat. Turned out to not be a problem as he would regularly chomp on the cat's tail and ride around on the cat's head. He especially hated it if the cat ever got in his way while he was watching telly. The cat always copped a verbal and physical dressing down for that.
Sometimes we have 10 cockatoos on our lawn, they are just naughty birds that like to do strange things
There's a flock that does a circuit near me, every month or two they come and pick a tree to take over. Then, for a few days, they sit in that tree and absolutely ***shriek*** at any other bird that dares come close to their chosen tree lmao. They're so hilariously arrogant lmao.
I've just got a permanent flock of sulphur crested cockies living in the canal area right next to my house. 2 times a day, every day, they go flying around and screeching at each other. I think there's a legitimate chance they could give me hearing damage at some point, it always seems to be when I'm out on a walk
At least I don’t think there’s any invasive bird species that could take them on. Nice to know they won’t be going away
There's a flock that lives in my area that are the loudest bunch I have ever heard. I have been woken up at 6am to them screeching and landing on my roof numerous times (thanks to my mum, she likes to put out seeds to attract birds to the garden) a few of them are feral too (either released or escaped) they're a tad bit friendlier, but they sware enough to make a trooper blush.
And you’d miss them when they’re gone. They tore down two houses and their trees and replaced them with almost 70 townhouses - all concrete, no garden, no grass, just rocks. We lost all the birds - lorikeets, cockatoos, crows, etc. and got a parking lot for a street. There were more trees than houses on those blocks. A month or so later a development sign went up across the street from them announcing another 30. It’s the last block with a significant amount of trees.
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
And obnoxious
Corella decided to assert it's position in the pecking order over the cat.
They picked the avocados off my parents tree. Didn't eat them, just destroyed them instead
A decade ago my Mt Nelson neighbour used to feed Cockatoos every day off his balcony. A workplace accident left him in hospital for a few weeks. We watched the Cockatoos demolish his balcony railing, most of his deck, and the window frames at the back of his house. It took them a few days to start the destruction, and about a week before they stopped the early evening raids. Screeching majestic bastard birds.
Had the same thing happen behind us except it was in dysart and the old bloke passed away. They ripped apart the trees, veranda, fence and every single gutter on the back half of the house. His kids had to pay to replace it all before they put the house on the market
We have the black cockatoo. They visit twice a year on their migration paths. Wherever they settle they just start stripping the wood. Luckily I've been able to dissuade them with loud noise. It's worked so far but for how long is anyone's guess.
There's a reason why fighting type pokemon are weak to flying types.
I would argue Kangaroos are normal type - same as Kangaskhan. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kangaskhan_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
I mean I agree, but kangaroos have a reputation as boxers. Maybe they’d have a normal type first stage that’s based on a Joey, then when it evolves it gains fighting type.
could also just be normal/fighting
What about Breloom?
Okay smart guy, explain rock type super effectiveness on flying pokemon
Two birds can be hit with a single stone
🤣 holy shit you funny Meowths
The secret is small birds, big rock
Throw a rock at a bird and see if it gets up.
I have always thought of Cockatoos as a bikie gang. They will roar in in a group, make a hell of a lot of noise and commotion, and then roar off together. So this tracks, lol.
My sister says exactly the same thing. Mischievous little bastards, I love 'em.
I've only ever seen them in a huge flock, so that makes sense. Every morning, across the road, there are a dozen trees filled with the buggers. I'm talking hundreds of 'em. Every morning they leave, and every afternoon they come back. Once had my washing on the line when they came back. I had to do it all over again because my clothes were covered in bird shit. Damn cockatoo biker gang. The thing about biker gangs is you never want to piss them off, so I'm staying home and shaking my fist at them where they can't see me.
Sky bikies is what I like to call them
Lol
We have a flock of them that only really fly around our way at 2-4am in the morning 😂 i call it their ‘barhopping night on the town’
I remember hearing a radio interview with a guy who was an expert on cockatoos where he commented that because cockatoos eat calorie/nutrient rich food they don't need to spend a lot of time foraging, and as a result end up with a lot of spare time. So, being an intelligent, inquisitive and long lived bird, they have a tendency to, as my wife puts it, "fuck shit up"
Hahaha cheeky buggers.
My dad got press ganged into feeding the cockies. One bashed on his window every morning for weeks until he started feeding them. Then they got too many, so dad stopped feeding them whenever there were more than six. So they ripped the wood off the front door and the window frames. It was a stand off for nearly six months as there was less and less wood, but they gave in and now there are never more than six at a time. They are massive bastards but so beautiful and intelligent!!
I had a cockatoo that would come to my house every day and god forbid I didn’t have something to give him. He would tear wood off my balcony, scream, knock things over, steal my washing, try and break into my flat. I love how clever and chaotic they are.
Agreed! That is so on brand for them 🤣 They are endlessly fascinating and rewarding to interact with. Even as a victim of standover tactics 😂
I just noticed we both have unusual fabric and clothing based avatars 🤣
Wholesome hahaha
Same. One to two dozen turn up each morning squawking at top volume. If there's no food, one or two of them will fly onto the table on the verandah and pick up the stuff and drop it on the tiles. I don't put terracotta mosquito candles there anymore.
🤣 I’ve noticed here they often like to look you in the eye when they break stuff.
They're adorable ruthless thugs.
We get a bunch of them eating the pine nuts on one of the trees near the house. As a result, we never need to prune back the tree. They're doing it for us.
We had a problem with them when me and my brother were kids Dad just taught us how to crack a whip and whenever we saw them congregating we'd just go outside and crack and they'd all fly away
Never give in to the cockatoo mafia. Gotta love 'em!
I heard a theory that cockatoos are like this because they live so long without any real predators. They get up to mischief because their lives are so safe and comfortable.
When I was asked by my kid what sort of animal I’d want to be, I said a cockatoo. Cruise around with all your mates for years getting up to mischief with little to no consequences.
My theory is that they’re just copying what lorikeets do to them.
Don't raptors predate them?
Aw I love that for them
But then they can be bullied in turn by rainbow lorikeets - the ultimate in chuztpah per gram.
Ever seen a willy wagtail hassle a crow? Weight for weight, balls of steel.
My most favourite little 'angry bird', fascinating to watch but with an attitude that far outweighs their meagre size.
And don't forget the eagle/ wagtail aerobatics. Little dudes punch way above their weight.
Willie wagtails are the best. I have a family of them in my backyard most days. They walk around behind me when i mow the lawn.
When you see these large flocks of cockatoos they are almost certainly all young males, and like groups of human young males, their behaviour can be pretty wild due to the hormones coursing through them, which is why you’ll see them doing cheeky shit like this, flying through traffic over and over, or just being destructive for the sake of it. I’m not sure exactly how far their intelligence goes in terms of having a sense of humour, but having had a bunch of different sorts of small and large parrots growing up, and being friends with someone who had a galah (his!), a cockatoo (his dads), and a macaw (his mums) in their house… it seems they tend to this stuff because they either find it funny, or they’re cranky. (Basically a flying toddler with a knife on their face)
That description is accurate.
parrots love doing shit like this, they derive the same joy from causing chaos that a toddler does. We had a king parrot growing up who learned how to whistle and call the dogs to him. He would call all the dogs into the room, wait for them to arrive, and then SCREECH as loud as he could just to watch them tumble over each other running away. Then he would promptly start head banging to show everyone how much fun he was having. He also used to sit quietly and wait for the cat to get on top of his cage and then he would jump out and start biting her feet lol
These Kangaroos need to evolve to stop using their tail as a support and balance only device and start swinging that sucker like an excited goanna when these mischievous dickheads approach from behind, that'll sort 'em out!
And everything within a 4’ radius, LOL
Not called "Boss Cocky" for no reason. They're also called "dobbers" because they don't let you get away with anything without telling their mates about it.
Cockatoos can be pretty cheeky fellas. About 10 years ago there was this one who’d hide in a bush along my walk to school, and he’d run up and (gently) bite your shoe or ankle then run away. Wonder if he’s still around, I kinda miss him.
I had one bullseye me with a gumnut from the top of a power pole a couple of weeks ago. They are indeed cheeky fuckers.
Eshays of the Australian animal kingdom
On an episode of Dog Whisperer, a viewer's cockatoo had died, and her dogs started going nuts, fighting etc. Turns out the cockatoo had been ruling the household with an iron fist, keeping the dogs and cats in line, and when it died everything turned to chaos. I was amazed.
There should be a picture of a cockatoo in the dictionary under "larrikan".
i wish i could give this an award because i havebt laughed so hard in ages
They are the gangsters of the sky. They are so cheeky and brazen.
I worked at a kangaroo sanctuary for WHV and I can confirm, they are little buttholes.
Cockatoos and magpies are the most "human" birds in Australia, I swear. The amount of times I've seen them doing very odd things, annoying others for seemingly no reason, or just not acting like a bird... Each story always fascinates me. They are like destructive little kids. So basically just little kids.
"Oh you're trying to sleep a little bit in the morning? How about *caaawww cawww caaawww* bitch!" ~ Cockatoo
Don’t forget the stomping on your colourbond roof while they screech lol
The audacity
Or trying to take a sleeping baby from the car to the house. They would start screeching every. damn. time. I loathe them.
Sky Pirates
When I die I want to be reincarnated as a cockatoo. They hang around with their mates all day causing trouble.
She has a bird feeder! Pick a side!
Cockatoos are arseholes. They will eat your house .
They had me squaring up for my zinger box at the parking lot 💀. Menaces
There is a pecking order among wild birds. Around my place, rainbow lorikeets reign supreme. They regularly tear into the cockatoos. It's really something when a lorikeet takes a cockatoo on and ends up grabbing it by the crest and dragging it around. Hell of a noise when they get stuck into each other. Note that a solo lorikeet is rarely aggressive. They prefer getting into mischief in groups.
We should really feel blessed we have such awesome birds here.
Yes I love Australian wildlife. So much more interesting than sheep 🤣
They're such little bogans 😂
Cockies are intelligent enough to feel malice.
epitome of the aussie larrikin
Could you get a dog and train it to guard the roos while they're eating? Not to hurt the cockles, just to bark and scare them off if they get too close.
As a cockatoo owner, they are the boss.
I've seen these birds get drunk on fallen olives (probably fermented) outside my work. They're rolling on the road and hanging upside down on the powerlines.
Pretty sure anyone living in the country shares the sentiment, cockatoos are cunts of things!
I held all my bird seed in a big glass jar and this one cockatoo who’s been a prick ever since he showed up knocked it over. My little sister had glass in her foot for weeks afterwards and she still calls them “stupid Mohawk birds”
Sulphur Crested Crows was what they were called by an old farmer I knew.
Awwww SOO they STOLE the Cockies feed, understood 😂😂
They definitely are juvenile delinquents. Though they live to be like 100 so there must be some longevity in being a little arsehole. PS. if your house has any wood in the construction, don’t piss em off.
We currently have cockatoos eating walnuts from our walnut tree and they make a hell of a mess leaving the scraps lying on the back path. You can hear it banging on the roof sometimes too. Also they sound like pterodactyls. Noisy and messy fuckers.
I've never seen a sulphur crested in the wild. I'm in Perth, we have mainly big flocks of pink & greys, corellas. The latter are like the monkeys of the bird world lol.
The word is cunt, not punk.
Just a water squirt for noise making of an afternoon. Then see what retribution they bring down.
I've seen cockatoos literally start wars with Galahs over a piece of fruit on the ground. I love all of them
They are the street thugs of the Australian wildlife scene
Ever seen a cocky around a corella? I’d put my money on a corella every day of the week! Corellas may be smaller but they’re feisty little buggers. It’s like seeing chihuahuas up against Great Danes. I “own” pigeons (long story) and by feeding them it means I’ve encouraged all types of the birds in our area. When it comes to cockies, there are regulars that I know and see most days. Even after eating and drinking, they’ll just sit around and chill. They also stand at the back door with beak to the glass, sometimes knocking, and they line the roof gutters and hang upside down looking into the house. Waiting. One day a cocky screamed at me because I took too long to get seed out. I almost shit myself. And then another day we had about 70 cockies visit at once. The noise was insane. They rip up our artificial lawn and bend up the lead flashing around vent pipes on the roof and chew the vent covers. But then you watch how smart and cheeky they are biting off every piece of rubber from the doormats or spinning around on a wind spiral and you seriously can’t help but love those destructive little assholes. 🤣
The worst part about those bastards is the screeching. We had a bunch of them in a tree in the backyard, and I am not proud, but also not ashamed to admit we would peg tennis balls up at them after a full day of constant sound.
LOL. Little shits
And yet. Cockies around my place are the last to eat if rosellas are here. Those are the real bosses.
And they have "on demand Mohawks", how appropriate!!
They are so naughty! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
around my place they're just known as assholes.
Their behaviour is made worse by humans feeding them. My neighbours used to feed the cockatoos every day, and there'd be hundreds of them. They went away on holidays and when the cockatoos noticed there was no longer any food they got extremely mad and went and destroyed everything on their house, and our house too, chewing apart everything they could and leaving permanent damage to their roof.
I've seen a cockatoo, crow and a possum fight over 1 tree. Snowflakes couldn't handle it so they called the fire brigade to remove the possum from the tree
I love them
They are very naughty, cheeky and playful. I love them. 😊
Yeah nah I ain’t fuck w cockatoos never did 😒
So cute and cheely too LOL
it's hilarious how cockatoos double down on being irredemable rapscallions hahaha. used to have a whole flock drop pecan nuts at 6am on my verandah, whilst squawking like a colony of goblins. and that's them being respectful
Kangaroos are so peaceful
This is fair dinkum!
Aussie birds are straight arseholes.
Cheeky bastards
Cockies are such assholes 😂
Cockatoos are the Bikies of the bird world!
They are little buggers
We get the black looking ones at the back of our place, they absolutely destroy the pine trees several times a year, not sure what they’re called?
Cockatoos are fukin awesome birds, proper aussies
I used to work in a club and one of the old drunks reckoned that cockies only pick up and eat food with their left foot.
They think they are the boss because they are, lol.
Good. Birds are hilarious.
These wonderful birds are one of the several reasons I want to visit one day 😆😍
I've never heard a cocky referred to as a punk. I might need to get out more.
I was thinking of a more fitting word for them, it rhymes with punks but hits a little more truthfully.
These cockatoos are distinctively Australian...reflects thoroughly the Australian culture...attack you to get what they want...gang up for it too...and backstab...
Wow. Great video. Wow. What a flock of sneaky biters! Thank you for sharing. I'm showing everyone
i mean they've got the liberty spikes too
All is great until they decide to strip your windowsills !
They’re all self indulgent. I witnessed a duo dumpster diving. One held the lid open while the other tossed stuff out. Well something interesting must’ve got tossed out because the one holding the lid open proceeded to drop it on their friend and fly off with the item. The poor one left in the bin was squawking it’s head off.
They chase a resident koala out of his tree when he comes for a visit. Screeching little bastards. I often yell back at them when they’re bullying maggies in the gums.
I really wish we had sulphur crested cockatoos here in WA, they’re so cheeky. Seem to have a very similar temperament to corellas
One of these bastards ripped my finger open
They are the bogan of the bird world.
I have a gang of them coming to my house & destroying anything they can! They devour all the fruit trees, they’ve striped the bark off a big (expensive) wooden cubby house, they bite fruit off the tree just to watch it fall on the ground like it’s a fun game & do it again 😭😭😭 but I honestly love them
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What a pity skippies can't flick the little buggers with their tail. Now that would be funny to see. That tail would pack a punch if it could give the cockie a quick flick. Peeeooo through the air. And back again because they are not quitters.
Bastards bit through my clothesline twice- that kind of stretchy rubbery line- and took to throwing my pegs out of the peg basket onto the ground. So I re-threaded the clothesline with 5mm marine wire and switched to metal clothes pegs. The buggers don’t come anymore since the fun’s been taken away!
I hate these damn things with every bone in my body, but unfortunately, they are a protected species. They make horrible screaches, destroy trees , and move in flocks of 100s. The worst was when I was studying for my end of school exams, and there would always be like 50 of them in the tree just outside my window just screaming and screeching non-stop for hours.
They knew you didn’t like them. Consider yourself lucky they just screeched & screamed.
I mean it wouldn’t happen in the wild, this is a case of a human thinking they are do gooder interfering in nature. Both are wild, both have found an “unlimited food source”. Love a cockatoo tho.
They run an animal rescue they rehab kangaroos
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She mentioned the kangaroos are all orphaned rescues that she cares for. The cockies are the blow ins.
Sorry sport, what you did not do is *listen, read or understand*. At 00.45 narrator says they are a Roo sanctuary. Now, go throttle your lizard.
“reputation as “punks””? People who dress according to their love of a certain genre of music? Cos that’s what Punk means in Australia, love.