Here's a couple of pics I took some years ago of some gone-wild (ex-domestics turned loose) SCCs that took to visiting the sunflowers I planted for the local parrots. Within about 10 days, they'd eaten all the heads and moved on. So big, so smart, so NOISY! They are much better off wild - and they can live to be well over 100 years of age.
You can see the leg band on the hen's leg in this photo. I figured the male was a domestic too when he said "Hello!". Scared the crap out of me at the time, as I wasn't expecting that.
fucking noisy bastards.dont get me wrong, they're nice birds but a tree full of them while your tring to sleep is fucking anoying
Where do you live that you got to see escaped (and successfully-surviving) cockatoos?
>>333419Australia, most likelyI hear from my cousin who lives there that the cockatiels love to cause hell in the suburbs, tearing up roof shingles, gardens, and even tarmac.
On the other hand, New Zealand has Kea. Which claw out the rubber bits on cars for shits and giggles.Also they're like goose sized, fearless of man and have attitudes and terrifying beaks. It's said that they would scare sheep into falling into gorges so they could eat the carcasses.
Also very sharp photography there OP. I'd like to ask, though -- how is it that you suppose to tell what the gender of a bird like that is? Far as I know cockatoos are usually sexed via blood test (or I guess the birds themselves do it via pheromones or something).