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bored white cockatoos

20 years ago

I came home this afternoon with a little surprise on my lawn. It appears the playful cockatoos which visit often, had a bit of fun. Now I don't much like the ficus type tree that the previous owner planted either, but I'm not into pointless destruction! Natural pruning I suppose. They did this once before, as I watched during winter and managed to cover the entire lawn. They weren't eating anything, just tearing the foliage apart. They also got into my cyclamen. As you cn see, there wasn't much left, they even ate the bulbs. I suppose this is what they were after?!

Just bored I suppose!

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trancegemini_wa
20 years ago
naughty cockatoos :)

I have read that cockatoos chew off branches to clean up their beaks and keep them short and Ive had black cockatoos drop bottlebrush branches all over my yard as they flew over (the branches fell out of their mouths as they squawked). at the time it puzzled me why cockatoos would be carrying bottlebrush branches, but it made sense when I read that. they certainly made a mess of your pots though
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20 years ago
Yes they are a bit destructive, no need to get into your pots, what you need are some Noisy Miners around your area. They are very territorial and will not let any big birds on my block, they also live in harmony with lots of the smaller birds, like the parrots and Lorikeets.

The only good thing they do is prune the top of the natives I do realise that they make a mess but the trees seems to do better for it and it used to save us hand pruning, so now hubby had to get up on a ladder a few weeks back and do the work they used to do seeing our Grevillea's were getting very leggy. I remember last year they were starting to make a terrible mess of my giant sunflowers till the little birds drove them away. Marvelous what nature does all the same. Cheers..MM.
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Jan_Willem_John
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Yes destructive there are we had a flock of them some years ago took all my Peas off the bushes and ate them and my beans and the fruit not ripe yet
,Glad they left us after two years.
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triciac
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What a pity, but you are lucky to have lovely birds come to visit. You will know not to leave your plant pots in the same place in future - maddening, isn't it?
gardenlen
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yep they are vandals along with the corellas made the mistake of allowing a couple of sulphur cresteds to share the seed i put out for other birds next thing we had a flock of 40 of them and when the seed alocation for the day ran out they ripped up the lawn looking for any scrap of seed they could find and when they couldn't find any they tip pruned all trees irking my neighbours in the process and ripped all the orchids and broms off the trees.

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