Punks are not dead. And this cockatoo is living proof of it. Recently, Isaac Sherring-Tito was walking down a street in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, and saw something spiky falling from above. When he looked up, Isaac found a white cockatoo tearing up anti-bird spikes so it could walk along freely.
Image credits: Isaac Sherring-Tito
This cockatoo is living proof that punks are not dead
Image credits: Isaac Sherring-Tito
Immediately, Isaac started recording the smart bird who was making its way along the ledge, picking up and dropping each section of the contraption. The clever white parrot can be seen using its beak and feet in a very conscious act of rebellion.
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Isaac Sherring-Tito from Australia spotted it on a building in Katoomba, destroying a spiky anti-bird setup
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As you might’ve guessed, wild cockatoos are native not only to Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands but Australia as well. These adorable animals live up to 60 years, depending upon the species (there are 21 of them). The oldest cockatoo in captivity was a Major Mitchell’s cockatoo named Cookie which lived at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and lived to be 83 years old (1933–2016).
Image credits: Isaac Sherring-Tito
Like all parrots, these Australian birds are zygodactyl (they have two toes pointing forward and two backward). This, complemented with the use of their beak, gives cockatoos the ability to use their feet like we use our hands and makes them terrific climbers. Or destroyers.
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Watch the bird in action below
Turns out, this particular cockatoo is kind of a local celebrity
Image credits: Stilgherrian
Image credits: Stilgherrian
Image credits: Stilgherrian
Image credits: Stilgherrian
Here’s what people said about the crazy video
Where I work a pigeon not only ignored the spikes but she built a nest behind them and is now happily bringing up her kids. Everyone loves her tenacity and the caretakers have left her alone.
This bird is my new hero, and should be the poster bird for the anti-bird spike lobby! No more spikes! No more spikes! Rip them out! Rip them out!
And please do the same with the anti-homeless spikes. We are a nasty species, aren't we?
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My school had this massive tree in the grounds. There's a large family of cockatoos that lives inside the hollowed limbs of the tree. A few years back the school (probably for some good reason) placed mesh over every one of the hollow openings to get rid of the birds. All the junior students were up in arms putting "save the cockatoos" notes everywhere, derailing SRC meetings etc. BUT THEN maybe a week after the school spent all that time and effort covering up these holes in the tree, the cockatoos busted STRAIGHT THROUGH THE WIRE and still live there now.
If Nature ever really decided to fight back, we'd be screwed! Has no one seen "Zoo"???
This Cockatoo used to visit me daily when I lived in Katoomba. My niece named him/her Cooky. He has very distinguishable eyes. The spikes are at the old Library on the Main Street. Further up the road at the Railway Station they have more 'friendly" bird deterrents. A horizontal wire along ledges, signs and such. Nice to see an old friend again.
I don't get the anti-nesting spikes. Who the hell would not want birds nesting around them. I can't use the fan for my stove-top because a family of carolina wrens moved into the vent and it is totally worth it now when people say they hear a bird coming from my oven that I say "Yeah, that is where I keep them, my oven birds."
The spikes just repel the birds, they don't (as a poster above claims) impale birds. I had a couple of pigeons nesting on a beam over my driveway, and they would leave a big pile of bird feces on my driveway each night. Their feces is very corrosive, and carries all kinds of disease. I put spikes up there, and they have relocated.
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Parrots are to other birds what humans are to our simian cousins...leaps and bounds beyond.
A college’s inflated dome sports field thingy (idk what theyre called) has different bird of prey noises. It took me many times of being stopped by it to figure out it wasn’t real
Clearly, consciousness level and intelligence is not always connected to brain size.
He's under contract with the pigeons. They want to get back to their main job ... s******g on buildings and people below.
Now you have me thinking of the Goodfeathers from Animaniacs. Well, it's off to YouTube I go!
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Cool bird! Well done, f**k the system, f**k the humans, break their assholery - literally, tear it apart, throw it out - this is a hero of ever revolution, one that stands up against an enemy he'll never be able to beat in total - but does so anyway. Very likely he knows (or she? I can't tell...) even knows this is a lost fight, but takes it on anyway. Who doesn't already has lost...
A sweet story, a smart bird, as many birds we learn are quite clever, we know how smart the crows are, and many others I'm sure !!!
i came across a dead pigeon impaled on one of those, through the chest
Where I work a pigeon not only ignored the spikes but she built a nest behind them and is now happily bringing up her kids. Everyone loves her tenacity and the caretakers have left her alone.
This bird is my new hero, and should be the poster bird for the anti-bird spike lobby! No more spikes! No more spikes! Rip them out! Rip them out!
And please do the same with the anti-homeless spikes. We are a nasty species, aren't we?
Load More Replies... My school had this massive tree in the grounds. There's a large family of cockatoos that lives inside the hollowed limbs of the tree. A few years back the school (probably for some good reason) placed mesh over every one of the hollow openings to get rid of the birds. All the junior students were up in arms putting "save the cockatoos" notes everywhere, derailing SRC meetings etc. BUT THEN maybe a week after the school spent all that time and effort covering up these holes in the tree, the cockatoos busted STRAIGHT THROUGH THE WIRE and still live there now.
If Nature ever really decided to fight back, we'd be screwed! Has no one seen "Zoo"???
This Cockatoo used to visit me daily when I lived in Katoomba. My niece named him/her Cooky. He has very distinguishable eyes. The spikes are at the old Library on the Main Street. Further up the road at the Railway Station they have more 'friendly" bird deterrents. A horizontal wire along ledges, signs and such. Nice to see an old friend again.
I don't get the anti-nesting spikes. Who the hell would not want birds nesting around them. I can't use the fan for my stove-top because a family of carolina wrens moved into the vent and it is totally worth it now when people say they hear a bird coming from my oven that I say "Yeah, that is where I keep them, my oven birds."
The spikes just repel the birds, they don't (as a poster above claims) impale birds. I had a couple of pigeons nesting on a beam over my driveway, and they would leave a big pile of bird feces on my driveway each night. Their feces is very corrosive, and carries all kinds of disease. I put spikes up there, and they have relocated.
Load More Replies... Parrots are to other birds what humans are to our simian cousins...leaps and bounds beyond.
A college’s inflated dome sports field thingy (idk what theyre called) has different bird of prey noises. It took me many times of being stopped by it to figure out it wasn’t real
Clearly, consciousness level and intelligence is not always connected to brain size.
He's under contract with the pigeons. They want to get back to their main job ... s******g on buildings and people below.
Now you have me thinking of the Goodfeathers from Animaniacs. Well, it's off to YouTube I go!
Load More Replies... Cool bird! Well done, f**k the system, f**k the humans, break their assholery - literally, tear it apart, throw it out - this is a hero of ever revolution, one that stands up against an enemy he'll never be able to beat in total - but does so anyway. Very likely he knows (or she? I can't tell...) even knows this is a lost fight, but takes it on anyway. Who doesn't already has lost...
A sweet story, a smart bird, as many birds we learn are quite clever, we know how smart the crows are, and many others I'm sure !!!
i came across a dead pigeon impaled on one of those, through the chest
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