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by far my favourite australian animal, they rip up our solar heater, they strip the silicone from our roof, they rip up the gasket that holds the lenses on street lights, they make this awful loud screeching noise, they have a freaking retractable mohawk and a bad attitude, absolutely gorgeous creatures. no matter how bad my day's been, a cocky will always make me smile. they are nothing short of majestic
This story remembers me that the city of Toronto spent a couple of millions to develop an Anti-raccoon trash bin, and it took about 3 weeks for the raccoons to learn how to open it.
White? Not anymore haha! They have nothing left with the Egyptian sacred ibis unfortunately. Once I was eating in a garden restaurant, one of them was foraging a rubbish bin, then came onto another table, shat on it, vomited on it and ate what it had just done. Absolutely revolting. I usually like birds but these ones are utterly disgusting, I hate them. 🤢
@@hunterhq295Yes, they are. They like wetlands apparently but, they mostly stick by all the cafes, restaurants, and supermarkets because of all the food. I’ve even seen some ibis’s fly towards some little kids who have bags of bread for the ducks.
Yep. But you'll only find the bin ones in Sydney and Brisbane, because both cities are built in the bush. Melbourne is built on a flat grass plain, so you won't find them there.
They live in pretty big family groups. My local one is made up of about 40 birds (+ - 5 depending on the season). They travel together during the day and go from all their fav feeding, drinking and bathing spots, then travel home in the evening together too. And screech their heads off to all the other members of the group that it's time to go home (to a particular valley in the Blue Mountains) Sometimes a few individuals will go investigate something alone during their day but usually they stay close to their family unit.
@@Roman-hg6rg Wow! I'm so intrigued!! I love birds which is why I chose this screen name- it's sort of a double entendre. I've had an African gray and a green quaker parrot not to mention all the parakeets I had growing up. If I lived there I would probably try to adopt every bird I could catch and end up having like 50 of them & would be known as the "crazy bird guy," which is in some ways better than being a crazy cat lady 😂
@@birdflipper $100,000 fine & 10 years jail per wild bird you catch & cage in Australia. That's part of why we have them flying around & interacting with us so extensively, cause we don't tollerate any caging of wild ones & a green quaker parrot is also called a monk parakeet, so makes no sense when you speak of having parakeets as a kid, then single out one of your parakeet pets by species but don't with any of the others. I'm guessing they were all monk parakeets?
I chased a cocky off my balcony because it was chewing my door mat. It flew around to my kitchen window and waited for me to walk over to him and he then chewed a hole in my fly screen and flew off. Definitely was revenge 😂 they are so smart and cheeky
lol oh yeh, that's absolutely revenge! They're ratbags! I've actually got 10 of them that used to visit a neighbour till she died & now visit me & it's amazed me how well behaved mine are! I've got one young one still in training, he chews stuff, so I've given him a bird chew toy & am disciplining him (ie "NO" &chasing him off if he ignores) & to my surprise, when I started doing this, the head cocky joined me in also teaching him no/chasing him off with bites if he eats my timber. Mine seem to understand that if they want food, they have to behave, which is awesome :) I can't take credit for it, obviously someone else has trained them in that. I have one that comes to my window if I don't come out & feed cause I'm on the phone or whatever. I've got a basket for hose bits there that he's claimed as his & enjoys throwing everything out of it, while sitting on it at my window. A couple of times he's decided to bite the flyscreen cause he's mad at me ignoring him, but I've just chased him off when he's done that & so far at least (touch wood - unchewed wood) he seems to understand the flyscreen's out of bounds. I can TOTALLY imagineit being destroyed in revenge though. They are lovable though imo :)
In Australian our best urban adaptors are our birds. No just the cocky but also the Australian ibis (aka. the bin chicken), the seagull, the noisy miner and others. Not all raid your bins but have certainly adapted to living with/near humans. The cockies and the ibis are the most obvious for the mess they make. Cockies can also cause damage to more than bins. They like chewing on wood - for example your back verandah. Anyway we still manage to love them!
lorikeets adapt well too, using their beauty & personality to get people to feed them for free, not to mention they love the same showy flowered natives that people love. Lorikeets have to be culled in WA & NZ, cause a few escaped pets have thrived & breed so well in those non-native habitats. Blue tongue lizards & possums are also on par with the birds as adapters though, blue tongues in particular are found in much higher numbers now than in the past, due to the more open habitat of suburbia, not to mention all the snails in strawberry plants & other veggies & flower gardens
@@mehere8038 Yep - there are others. I've had a ring tail possum move into one of the trees in my backyard - very cute and very entertaining at night. Loves eating my ripe tomatoes - but I can live with that. Have a great day.
@@sep4957 Oh yeah! Crazy attack birds. Scared of nothing. Springtime is crazy hat time in Australia to protect yourself from the maggies. Have a great day.
As someone who has had the privilege of sharing my life with a close relative of these Sulfer Crests, the Mollucan, I can attest to the amazing intelligence of these animals. They have the learning ability of a 2-4 year old toddler, and learn by watching.
I feed these guys all the time in Sydney. I open the window and wave at them, and they fly to me from hundreds of feet away. It's nice to have nature just fly up to your window in the middle of a city.
It’s not good for the health of wild native birds to be fed all the time by people. Pretty much all wildlife bodies and organisations recommend not to feed them. Google it, ok? Cheers,
This happens in San Francisco's baseball park, regardless of when the game starts by the 7th or 8th inning, few sea gulls starts to circle overhead, and the by the time game ends, thousands of them are in the stands eating left-over hot-dog (buns), garlic fries, half-eaten pretzels, popcorns... It's amazing how adaptable the animal kingdom is...
yeh, it's awesome & a lot of us Aussies love it, which is kinda why they are so comfortable around us, cause we feed them & encourage them to interact closely with us. They're smart enough to get to know which people they can & can't trust too :) & they also seek revenge on anyone that hurts them, shredding everything they value. I've got 9, all well behaved, one young one does chew stuff, i've given him a chew toy to use for this to stop him chewing my stuff & I tell him "no" & then chase him off if he chews my stuff anyway, which actually disrupts the others that are trying to feed, so boss cocky assists me with the discipline now too, when I say "no", boss cocky flies over & nips at 'Chewy" if he continues to bite stuff, so that I don't have to :) They know full well people hate them chewing stuff & will do it in revenge to anyone being mean to them, waiting till they're out & then destroying everything, so people tend to just ignore them or feed & encourage them, leading to nice, tame, "wild" birds (my wild ones are tamer than my pet rescue ones! I actually use the wild ones to let my pet ones watch the interactions & learn how to trust humans :))
Yep. They often fly in large flocks but what makes them most interesting is watching them actually fly. They like to play with each other while flying and also like to show off. It's like watching 30 acrobats leaping into the air at once with no co-ordination or timing.
@@realbroggo Have you seen them showering during the rain? I'd argue that's more entertaining (although in a different way) mine did it the other day, landing on the leaves of the trees with wings spread out, then getting a footing, then dropping back & hanging upsidedown to get a good wash under their wings, hysterical to watch! I had 2 trees covered in huge birds, hanging upsidedown with their wings fully extended
Here in Slovakia, mountain brown bears learned how to get into the bins in the mountain towns and tourist resorst. Not only how to open, but also to get inside, eat what left and get out from the trash bin. However, comparing to the cute aussie parrots our bear are beasts you don't want to get into the contact with....
The fact my driveway and actual bin is featured here getting torn into by cockies and I was completely unaware of this video until it showed up in my reccomended creeps me out.....I was not expecting to see my house on a channel I've watched for years hahah
What happened to the first upload of this? Anyway, Cool to see the cockies featured :) The other bird in the bins btw, the white & black one with a really long beak, is called a "bin chicken", or "Ibis" if you want it's technical name. No mention of humans feeding the cockies & other birds though, I do a bit & they are certainly smart! I've bought them dog smart toys to keep them amused, along with making a range of different feeder types they have to work to get the food from, such as bowls on ropes & sticks that they have to pull up or climb down to access & they often come just to play & it's also fascinating to watch them teaching the others in their flock how to use the various toys. Mine are really well behaved too, I think most that get fed by humans are, cause they learn what's expected if they're going to get a feed & what stops the feeding. i had a young one chewing my timber the other day, I told him "no" & tried to chase him off, without chasing off the others, which didn't work great for the rest of them, so top pecking order cocky dealt with it for me, flew over to where that cocky was & each time he bit on something, head cocky bit at him to tell him "no" in terms he understood & respected. They're very smart & able to adapt to expectations in a human world really well! I recommend looking up the videos of them at bubblers/drinking fountains too. In areas with bubblers & no other drinking water supplies, the cockies will sit on the bubbler & call to passing humans to turn it on for them so they can get a drink
So what I learned from this is that in Australia, cockatoos are Australian racoons/pigeons. Wish we could trade. I'd take an ornery cockatoo over a racoon.
Why? Raccoons are gorgeous friendly creatures who've lived in Toronto for more generations than people. If I was mayor, I'd create Raccoon parks to attract tourists.
@@TheAstronomyDude said by someone who has never faced off against an angry raccoon addicted to garbage. I feel bad for the poor critters, but cockatoos look to be more manageable imo.
@@boardcertifiable Less likely to suffer from rabies as well. My country is a rabies free zone, have been for decades. But it might not stay that way unfortunately.
They're pretty but they do a lot of damage. Like, a real lot! When a favourite feeding ground of theirs doesn't have any food they get angry and will destroy anything they can for a good 30mins-1hr. Flyscreens shredded, any timber furniture or fences or window frames, the bastards even destroy plants - not to eat them - but just to express their anger/frustration that there's no food. They cut off flowers and branches and just leave a big mess on the floor. Plastic pots get shredded...anything their beaks can get into. Even the chains for hanging pots get broken. Their beaks really are like bolt cutters.
@@boardcertifiable I suggest you look up the Aussie tv show "a current affair" & "cockatoo" if you think cockies are easier to manage than raccoons! Our possums are the same as your raccoons & are really not an issue. Sure, they remove tiles & get into our roofs to sleep & sound like a herd of elephants in there & they eat roses & a range of other flowers & vegetables & fruits, but see Roman's comment as to what cockies are like, or look at the suggestion I gave to see entire verandahs & cubby houses turned into a pile of matchsticks cause the owner went away on holidays for 2 weeks, so there was no-one to chase off the pterodactyl mob. Don't get me wrong, we still love them, we just don't understand your hate for raccoons, cause we would absolutely love & embrace them too if they were part of our native fauna. Raccoons are certainly not any sort of an issue compared to our normal suburban neighbour native animals & you may want to look up the brush turkey too, that's one of the birds shown in this video. Male builds a nest to incubate the eggs with heat, to do so he gathers literally 1 tonne of leaf litter & builds a 1 tonne nest mound. They always seem to choose the best kept garden as their nest site too & kick that 1 tonne of mulch to that location from the whole neighbourhood, including across roads & they attack any car that dares interrupt their mulch moving activities & don't even dream of disturbing their nest!!!!!!! They're vicious little buggers if they get upset! Again though, we just see them as having the same rights to the land as us & just compromise & live in peace with them. Beyond me why you can't do that with adorable little raccoons!
So one of my wild cockies was chewing chewing gum the other day. Quite disconcerting watching a cockatoo doing that actually. I can kinda see issues with the bins after that, but that said, probably not really any different to a kid chewing chewing gum, just looks wrong/freaky to see a cocky doing it though
Today in Sunshine Victoria. There is a couple of gum trees and they were full of cockatoos . Hundreds of them. They only showed up a few weeks ago and now live there. It's strange to see.
I freaking love the cockatoos! I love all animals! Except for monkeys and kangaroos they're on the bottom of my list the very bottom. But besides that I think we can learn something from the animals such as composting if we threw our food into a compost bin nature would take care of itself. And the Earth would be much cleaner go green!
I think they’ve always been smart enough to open bins. I think there’s a lack of their natural food sources around now because of humans. So they’re just eating whatever they can to survive.
no, their numbers are FAR higher now than pre-white humans & they used to have to migrate to find enough food to survive, now they don't, cause it's so plentiful when they live alongside humans in suburban areas & farm areas
We don't dispose of harmful chemicals (including batteries) in our household bins in Australia. We have to drop them off in person to a waste facility or once a year there might be a seperate council pickup. Plus, from observation, the birds seem to know which bins have what they want because they target specific bins in my area. That's what blows my mind - I don't know how they know before it's been opened, but they do.
we have proper standards in Australia. we take care of our water & air & even our landfills! We don't dump toxic waste into them, it's illegal & enforced! Plastic is about the most harmful thing a cocky's going to get from a bin & they're smart enough to know not to eat that
we do, but it's the forbidden fruit they want lol. It's like if people have fruit trees, the dam cockies will take one bite out of every piece of fruit, as they pick it & drop it to the ground while laughing at us. I grew some sunflowers a few years back, same thing, cocky didn't even bother eating the seeds, just had fun shredding the flower & threw it all on the ground. These birds are so well fed it's not funny! I actually feed some a bit, but I put the food in dog smart toys, so that they can get the mental stimulation they're really craving. They'll only choose their favourite seeds too btw & just ignore the rest & when I tried to give them something more healthy, sweet potato, carrots, bok choy, sprouted seeds, beans etc etc - all the stuff good parrot owners give their pet birds so the birds can enjoy the food & also get good nutrition, my wild cockies just turned up their noses at it all & didn't come back for a week! Meanwhile, one of mine has taken up chewing chewing gum, presumably found in a bin. Seems he likes that better than sweet potato etc!
Humans, organising and institutionalising, universalising and systemising, internationalising/globalising some selective and specific mammals/mammalians, mostly, but also some birds/avians, like chickens/roosters and turkeys, for human consumption. Then, a lot of industrial wastage, but also a lot of consumer/user/customer...shopper wastage, or buyer/purchaser/transactor wastage. Much like used/consumed, then regularly discarded tobacco cigarette filters, or the tobacco of tobacco cigarettes and tobacco cigars, neither recycled and reused, of which it could be.
I find it really hard to believe that eating trash is okay for them and that they know to eat healthy balanced meals. They are attracted to fats and sugars just like everything else and too much of that is no good. Not to mention the bits of plastic, mold and other contaminants.
There are TH-cam vids of cockatoos disassembling the complex metal hinges on their cages in order to escape. No way are humans going to thwart these guys.
yup, hence why our animals are the smartest in the world & tbh, the humans aren't really being outsmarted, we just kinda enjoy letting tourists & the world see how smart our animals are. Same as the claims they all want us dead, actually it's only tourists that die, we get on just fine with our animals, they might be deadly, but they don't feel the need to use their capabilities on us, I mean why would they? We're smart enough to know how to live alongside them in peace, it's all "no worries mate" over here :)
Those in sink garbage disposal things are uncommon outside "Murica. Areas with them tend to get more blocked sewerage pipes, so some states and countries have banned new installations. Of course people who live in flats/apartments and even terrace/row houses on small blocks can't compost their trash.
In Australia we have a great recipe for cockatoo. We build a fire, place some hot rocks in the middle and lay the dead bird on top. Once cooked you throw away the cocky and eat the rocks.
🤦♀️ What are we doing once again... Buy less food, prepare less food, eat less and you'll be in better health, have less rubbish, the landfill will be less of a problem and everyone will be fine.
And where is the credit for Maker's Muse? At least put it on screen or add it to the description! Don't just say "a youtuber" even if his logo showed in his video.
@@BloodAsp yup, I thought that might have been the reason it was taken down. Disappointing to see it up again without the proper credits! Not hard to credit him is it!
You re-posted the video, but still did not give credit to Makers Muse for their film? You should link to the video of theirs you used in three description, and mention it in the video imo. Sure you aren't required to, but it is the moral thing to do. Shame.
Might want to separate bio waste into their own bins, like in some other countries, that way no need to pick up plastic trash which those animals throw out while digging.
We have red, yellow & green bins. Red is garbage, yellow is recyclables, green is organic matter like lawn clippings, no rotting food allowed. The cockies only open the red bins, they don't touch the yellow or green, cause they know there's no food in them
there's WAY more of these birds than there were before whites colonised! They have overpopulated because they find living alongside humans so easy. We haven't asked them to adapt, they've chosen to join us!
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by far my favourite australian animal, they rip up our solar heater, they strip the silicone from our roof, they rip up the gasket that holds the lenses on street lights, they make this awful loud screeching noise, they have a freaking retractable mohawk and a bad attitude, absolutely gorgeous creatures. no matter how bad my day's been, a cocky will always make me smile. they are nothing short of majestic
This story remembers me that the city of Toronto spent a couple of millions to develop an Anti-raccoon trash bin, and it took about 3 weeks for the raccoons to learn how to open it.
Fun fact: Here in Australia, the white bird you see at 0:51 (Australian White
Ibis) is often referred to as a ‘Bin Chicken.’
They're supposed to be water birds right?
White? Not anymore haha! They have nothing left with the Egyptian sacred ibis unfortunately. Once I was eating in a garden restaurant, one of them was foraging a rubbish bin, then came onto another table, shat on it, vomited on it and ate what it had just done. Absolutely revolting. I usually like birds but these ones are utterly disgusting, I hate them. 🤢
@@hunterhq295Yes, they are. They like wetlands apparently but, they mostly stick by all the cafes, restaurants, and supermarkets because of all the food. I’ve even seen some ibis’s fly towards some little kids who have bags of bread for the ducks.
Yep. But you'll only find the bin ones in Sydney and Brisbane, because both cities are built in the bush. Melbourne is built on a flat grass plain, so you won't find them there.
Or 'Dump Chook'.
Seeing those many cockatoos in the wild like pigeons or seagulls is so bizarre.
They live in pretty big family groups. My local one is made up of about 40 birds (+ - 5 depending on the season). They travel together during the day and go from all their fav feeding, drinking and bathing spots, then travel home in the evening together too. And screech their heads off to all the other members of the group that it's time to go home (to a particular valley in the Blue Mountains) Sometimes a few individuals will go investigate something alone during their day but usually they stay close to their family unit.
@@Roman-hg6rg Wow! I'm so intrigued!! I love birds which is why I chose this screen name- it's sort of a double entendre. I've had an African gray and a green quaker parrot not to mention all the parakeets I had growing up. If I lived there I would probably try to adopt every bird I could catch and end up having like 50 of them & would be known as the "crazy bird guy," which is in some ways better than being a crazy cat lady 😂
Esp when I've got 4 living in my house! 😂
@@birdflipper lol i do remember collecting feathers from the ground cus they are like cool loot after i feed them when to come to my house
@@birdflipper $100,000 fine & 10 years jail per wild bird you catch & cage in Australia. That's part of why we have them flying around & interacting with us so extensively, cause we don't tollerate any caging of wild ones
& a green quaker parrot is also called a monk parakeet, so makes no sense when you speak of having parakeets as a kid, then single out one of your parakeet pets by species but don't with any of the others. I'm guessing they were all monk parakeets?
I chased a cocky off my balcony because it was chewing my door mat. It flew around to my kitchen window and waited for me to walk over to him and he then chewed a hole in my fly screen and flew off. Definitely was revenge 😂 they are so smart and cheeky
lol oh yeh, that's absolutely revenge! They're ratbags!
I've actually got 10 of them that used to visit a neighbour till she died & now visit me & it's amazed me how well behaved mine are! I've got one young one still in training, he chews stuff, so I've given him a bird chew toy & am disciplining him (ie "NO" &chasing him off if he ignores) & to my surprise, when I started doing this, the head cocky joined me in also teaching him no/chasing him off with bites if he eats my timber. Mine seem to understand that if they want food, they have to behave, which is awesome :) I can't take credit for it, obviously someone else has trained them in that.
I have one that comes to my window if I don't come out & feed cause I'm on the phone or whatever. I've got a basket for hose bits there that he's claimed as his & enjoys throwing everything out of it, while sitting on it at my window. A couple of times he's decided to bite the flyscreen cause he's mad at me ignoring him, but I've just chased him off when he's done that & so far at least (touch wood - unchewed wood) he seems to understand the flyscreen's out of bounds. I can TOTALLY imagineit being destroyed in revenge though. They are lovable though imo :)
"bin chicken" "flying bolt cutter" "trash can terror" I love the phrases these ppl use to describe cockatoos(+other birds) 🤣
In Australian our best urban adaptors are our birds. No just the cocky but also the Australian ibis (aka. the bin chicken), the seagull, the noisy miner and others. Not all raid your bins but have certainly adapted to living with/near humans. The cockies and the ibis are the most obvious for the mess they make. Cockies can also cause damage to more than bins. They like chewing on wood - for example your back verandah. Anyway we still manage to love them!
lorikeets adapt well too, using their beauty & personality to get people to feed them for free, not to mention they love the same showy flowered natives that people love. Lorikeets have to be culled in WA & NZ, cause a few escaped pets have thrived & breed so well in those non-native habitats. Blue tongue lizards & possums are also on par with the birds as adapters though, blue tongues in particular are found in much higher numbers now than in the past, due to the more open habitat of suburbia, not to mention all the snails in strawberry plants & other veggies & flower gardens
@@mehere8038 Yep - there are others. I've had a ring tail possum move into one of the trees in my backyard - very cute and very entertaining at night. Loves eating my ripe tomatoes - but I can live with that. Have a great day.
You forgot to mention those crazy magpies 😂
@@sep4957 Oh yeah! Crazy attack birds. Scared of nothing. Springtime is crazy hat time in Australia to protect yourself from the maggies. Have a great day.
Let’s not forget the cockies that take little bites out of every apple in the orchard….🍎🕊️
As someone who has had the privilege of sharing my life with a close relative of these Sulfer Crests, the Mollucan, I can attest to the amazing intelligence of these animals. They have the learning ability of a 2-4 year old toddler, and learn by watching.
Also in Australia, Ibis's/ bin chickens have figured out how to eat canetoads without getting poisoned
Cockatoos are quite brilliant. I can't say I'm shocked, lol.
I feed these guys all the time in Sydney. I open the window and wave at them, and they fly to me from hundreds of feet away. It's nice to have nature just fly up to your window in the middle of a city.
It’s not good for the health of wild native birds to be fed all the time by people.
Pretty much all wildlife bodies and organisations recommend not to feed them.
Google it, ok?
Cheers,
This happens in San Francisco's baseball park, regardless of when the game starts by the 7th or 8th inning, few sea gulls starts to circle overhead, and the by the time game ends, thousands of them are in the stands eating left-over hot-dog (buns), garlic fries, half-eaten pretzels, popcorns...
It's amazing how adaptable the animal kingdom is...
Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.
Lol 😆 I know it maybe annoying but to see these birds so comfortable being around humans whom are not their owners is too darn cute. 😅
yeh, it's awesome & a lot of us Aussies love it, which is kinda why they are so comfortable around us, cause we feed them & encourage them to interact closely with us. They're smart enough to get to know which people they can & can't trust too :) & they also seek revenge on anyone that hurts them, shredding everything they value. I've got 9, all well behaved, one young one does chew stuff, i've given him a chew toy to use for this to stop him chewing my stuff & I tell him "no" & then chase him off if he chews my stuff anyway, which actually disrupts the others that are trying to feed, so boss cocky assists me with the discipline now too, when I say "no", boss cocky flies over & nips at 'Chewy" if he continues to bite stuff, so that I don't have to :) They know full well people hate them chewing stuff & will do it in revenge to anyone being mean to them, waiting till they're out & then destroying everything, so people tend to just ignore them or feed & encourage them, leading to nice, tame, "wild" birds (my wild ones are tamer than my pet rescue ones! I actually use the wild ones to let my pet ones watch the interactions & learn how to trust humans :))
U guys are lucky.. we have only so many crows in our country. Few pigeons n sparrows. But not these beautiful cockatoos
Somehow i like to see those birds flying freely 🥲
Yep. They often fly in large flocks but what makes them most interesting is watching them actually fly. They like to play with each other while flying and also like to show off. It's like watching 30 acrobats leaping into the air at once with no co-ordination or timing.
@@realbroggo Have you seen them showering during the rain? I'd argue that's more entertaining (although in a different way) mine did it the other day, landing on the leaves of the trees with wings spread out, then getting a footing, then dropping back & hanging upsidedown to get a good wash under their wings, hysterical to watch! I had 2 trees covered in huge birds, hanging upsidedown with their wings fully extended
@@mehere8038 Love it! Natural entertainers. Have a great day.
In South Africa you can fit a device to the bin which only unlock when the bin is upside down.
Ofcourse animals shouldn’t eat trash… Most speacies are doing it because there isn’t enough food in their natural habitat.
them cockatoos smarter than a lot of humans
Here in Slovakia, mountain brown bears learned how to get into the bins in the mountain towns and tourist resorst. Not only how to open, but also to get inside, eat what left and get out from the trash bin. However, comparing to the cute aussie parrots our bear are beasts you don't want to get into the contact with....
as a bird owner, birds can figure out how to open things like these with ease. it really is no surprise.
“Mmmm trash yum yum trash I love trash” -Garbage Goober
Crows do the same thing, I seen one fishing garbage out of a bin the other day.
The fact my driveway and actual bin is featured here getting torn into by cockies and I was completely unaware of this video until it showed up in my reccomended creeps me out.....I was not expecting to see my house on a channel I've watched for years hahah
Did you know the cockies were doing it?
Padlocks? Give LPL a few minutes with those birds. They'll be raking every cheap Master Lock by the end of the day.
0:07-What strength for a bird
I knew they ripped the shingles off buildings, but this is on a whole new level! I know my Amazon is smart, if Gonzo wants it, he's gonna get it!
Wheelie bins here in Australia mate. Or garbage bins.
I'm pretty proud of our cockatoos.. Clever cockies!
or rubbish bins, or just bins but yeh, not "trash"
What happened to the first upload of this?
Anyway, Cool to see the cockies featured :)
The other bird in the bins btw, the white & black one with a really long beak, is called a "bin chicken", or "Ibis" if you want it's technical name.
No mention of humans feeding the cockies & other birds though, I do a bit & they are certainly smart! I've bought them dog smart toys to keep them amused, along with making a range of different feeder types they have to work to get the food from, such as bowls on ropes & sticks that they have to pull up or climb down to access & they often come just to play & it's also fascinating to watch them teaching the others in their flock how to use the various toys.
Mine are really well behaved too, I think most that get fed by humans are, cause they learn what's expected if they're going to get a feed & what stops the feeding. i had a young one chewing my timber the other day, I told him "no" & tried to chase him off, without chasing off the others, which didn't work great for the rest of them, so top pecking order cocky dealt with it for me, flew over to where that cocky was & each time he bit on something, head cocky bit at him to tell him "no" in terms he understood & respected. They're very smart & able to adapt to expectations in a human world really well!
I recommend looking up the videos of them at bubblers/drinking fountains too. In areas with bubblers & no other drinking water supplies, the cockies will sit on the bubbler & call to passing humans to turn it on for them so they can get a drink
I don't know why I find the guy talking about almost getting killed by otters funny😂😂
Yes the Bin Chicken made an appearance!!!
I blame Maker's Muse for everything!
So cute cockatoos❤
I wish we had these in our country instead if crows😊
Had a pet Sulfur Crested when I was a kid. Naughty friend.
So what I learned from this is that in Australia, cockatoos are Australian racoons/pigeons.
Wish we could trade. I'd take an ornery cockatoo over a racoon.
Why? Raccoons are gorgeous friendly creatures who've lived in Toronto for more generations than people. If I was mayor, I'd create Raccoon parks to attract tourists.
@@TheAstronomyDude said by someone who has never faced off against an angry raccoon addicted to garbage. I feel bad for the poor critters, but cockatoos look to be more manageable imo.
@@boardcertifiable Less likely to suffer from rabies as well. My country is a rabies free zone, have been for decades. But it might not stay that way unfortunately.
They're pretty but they do a lot of damage. Like, a real lot! When a favourite feeding ground of theirs doesn't have any food they get angry and will destroy anything they can for a good 30mins-1hr. Flyscreens shredded, any timber furniture or fences or window frames, the bastards even destroy plants - not to eat them - but just to express their anger/frustration that there's no food. They cut off flowers and branches and just leave a big mess on the floor. Plastic pots get shredded...anything their beaks can get into. Even the chains for hanging pots get broken. Their beaks really are like bolt cutters.
@@boardcertifiable I suggest you look up the Aussie tv show "a current affair" & "cockatoo" if you think cockies are easier to manage than raccoons! Our possums are the same as your raccoons & are really not an issue. Sure, they remove tiles & get into our roofs to sleep & sound like a herd of elephants in there & they eat roses & a range of other flowers & vegetables & fruits, but see Roman's comment as to what cockies are like, or look at the suggestion I gave to see entire verandahs & cubby houses turned into a pile of matchsticks cause the owner went away on holidays for 2 weeks, so there was no-one to chase off the pterodactyl mob.
Don't get me wrong, we still love them, we just don't understand your hate for raccoons, cause we would absolutely love & embrace them too if they were part of our native fauna. Raccoons are certainly not any sort of an issue compared to our normal suburban neighbour native animals
& you may want to look up the brush turkey too, that's one of the birds shown in this video. Male builds a nest to incubate the eggs with heat, to do so he gathers literally 1 tonne of leaf litter & builds a 1 tonne nest mound. They always seem to choose the best kept garden as their nest site too & kick that 1 tonne of mulch to that location from the whole neighbourhood, including across roads & they attack any car that dares interrupt their mulch moving activities & don't even dream of disturbing their nest!!!!!!! They're vicious little buggers if they get upset! Again though, we just see them as having the same rights to the land as us & just compromise & live in peace with them. Beyond me why you can't do that with adorable little raccoons!
So one of my wild cockies was chewing chewing gum the other day. Quite disconcerting watching a cockatoo doing that actually. I can kinda see issues with the bins after that, but that said, probably not really any different to a kid chewing chewing gum, just looks wrong/freaky to see a cocky doing it though
Good to see that the title of the video was changed. "Should animals eat garbage" wasnt right because of the precedent it sets.
Today in Sunshine Victoria. There is a couple of gum trees and they were full of cockatoos . Hundreds of them. They only showed up a few weeks ago and now live there. It's strange to see.
Even Birds can't resist eating trash food
FASCINATING!!!
I freaking love the cockatoos! I love all animals! Except for monkeys and kangaroos they're on the bottom of my list the very bottom. But besides that I think we can learn something from the animals such as composting if we threw our food into a compost bin nature would take care of itself. And the Earth would be much cleaner go green!
They seem SO annoying, I love them.
I think they’ve always been smart enough to open bins. I think there’s a lack of their natural food sources around now because of humans. So they’re just eating whatever they can to survive.
no, their numbers are FAR higher now than pre-white humans & they used to have to migrate to find enough food to survive, now they don't, cause it's so plentiful when they live alongside humans in suburban areas & farm areas
Trash can have harmful chemicals. It's not about whether the trash food is adequate.
We don't dispose of harmful chemicals (including batteries) in our household bins in Australia. We have to drop them off in person to a waste facility or once a year there might be a seperate council pickup.
Plus, from observation, the birds seem to know which bins have what they want because they target specific bins in my area. That's what blows my mind - I don't know how they know before it's been opened, but they do.
Name one of those "harmful chemicals".
we have proper standards in Australia. we take care of our water & air & even our landfills! We don't dump toxic waste into them, it's illegal & enforced! Plastic is about the most harmful thing a cocky's going to get from a bin & they're smart enough to know not to eat that
I feel like they should just leave their food waste out for the birds 😆 they have won, just accept it lol!
we do, but it's the forbidden fruit they want lol. It's like if people have fruit trees, the dam cockies will take one bite out of every piece of fruit, as they pick it & drop it to the ground while laughing at us.
I grew some sunflowers a few years back, same thing, cocky didn't even bother eating the seeds, just had fun shredding the flower & threw it all on the ground. These birds are so well fed it's not funny! I actually feed some a bit, but I put the food in dog smart toys, so that they can get the mental stimulation they're really craving. They'll only choose their favourite seeds too btw & just ignore the rest & when I tried to give them something more healthy, sweet potato, carrots, bok choy, sprouted seeds, beans etc etc - all the stuff good parrot owners give their pet birds so the birds can enjoy the food & also get good nutrition, my wild cockies just turned up their noses at it all & didn't come back for a week!
Meanwhile, one of mine has taken up chewing chewing gum, presumably found in a bin. Seems he likes that better than sweet potato etc!
Finally, the first male narrator I've found so far!
Australians biggest problems seems to be spiders, toads, and parrots opening garbage bins!
0:51 - BIN CHICKEN!!!
Interesting & well done
Food waste in the general bin. So general landfill.
If people don't like it, food waste in the compost bin, so a compost-related/-based landfill.
Humans, organising and institutionalising, universalising and systemising, internationalising/globalising some selective and specific mammals/mammalians, mostly, but also some birds/avians, like chickens/roosters and turkeys, for human consumption.
Then, a lot of industrial wastage, but also a lot of consumer/user/customer...shopper wastage, or buyer/purchaser/transactor wastage.
Much like used/consumed, then regularly discarded tobacco cigarette filters, or the tobacco of tobacco cigarettes and tobacco cigars, neither recycled and reused, of which it could be.
Thank you for this video.
down vote for the crappy reference to Makers Muse footage about the youtuber who made a training item for the birds.
Ayy, there are now three of us in the comments I have found that know of Makers Muse now, and were not pleased with their dismissal crediting him.
I love animals
Back in my uni days. Indians tend to takeaway these birds for midnight tandoori snacks. 😋
Fascinating
cockatoos are real damn cute
but i cant help seeing just how much waste is in the wrong bins in just about every shot you showed
I find it really hard to believe that eating trash is okay for them and that they know to eat healthy balanced meals. They are attracted to fats and sugars just like everything else and too much of that is no good. Not to mention the bits of plastic, mold and other contaminants.
There are TH-cam vids of cockatoos disassembling the complex metal hinges on their cages in order to escape. No way are humans going to thwart these guys.
Heyyyyyy cockatoos just trying to make a living🤷♂️🤷♂️ I would do the same if I was a cockatoo I don’t blame them
I'd love to have a crow friend
They should try the bear proof cans we use here in Alaska if a grizzly can’t break into it then a bird shouldn’t be able to
In iur country they r so expensive if you want to buy, a single cockatoo costs more than 1 lac
Give Maker's Muse CREDIT for the clip you used. "some youtuber"
Outsmarting humans in general is not an easy task for animals, but we're talking Australians here....
yup, hence why our animals are the smartest in the world
& tbh, the humans aren't really being outsmarted, we just kinda enjoy letting tourists & the world see how smart our animals are. Same as the claims they all want us dead, actually it's only tourists that die, we get on just fine with our animals, they might be deadly, but they don't feel the need to use their capabilities on us, I mean why would they? We're smart enough to know how to live alongside them in peace, it's all "no worries mate" over here :)
4:55 great what?!
ഭാഗിയുള്ള ബർഡ്
2:59 Johnny Sins
My question is why is there so much food in the trash? Do people not compost there or use garbage disposals?
Those in sink garbage disposal things are uncommon outside "Murica. Areas with them tend to get more blocked sewerage pipes, so some states and countries have banned new installations. Of course people who live in flats/apartments and even terrace/row houses on small blocks can't compost their trash.
We just need to co exist. We take and take so much land that these animals have no choice but to rely on our waste.
They are not evolving, but adapting
Sadly only some cockatoos have adapted. Many are severely endangered like the red tailed and yellow tailed black cockatoos.
I'd rather eat them then the bugs you are trying to force upon me in my pod.
In Australia we have a great recipe for cockatoo. We build a fire, place some hot rocks in the middle and lay the dead bird on top. Once cooked you throw away the cocky and eat the rocks.
Can't blame the nature! Because nature came before human and human was trying to take place of nature. Human just have to live peacefully with nature
🤦♀️ What are we doing once again... Buy less food, prepare less food, eat less and you'll be in better health, have less rubbish, the landfill will be less of a problem and everyone will be fine.
how? you chopped trees so they have to get in trash bins to eat garbage
You have already posted this one
Open compost bins.... they dont want trash.
They and many other species were coming to my veranda high and cose to an Eucaliptus....nolsy buggers but fery funny...Australia is bird rich.
crazy
Them raccoons got diabetes?
Trash panda is now trash birdies
Not again. BTW, Humans do as well!
BIN CHICKENS!
They can't get around padlocks......... for now.
Try and stop them
Lmao, our obesity and diabetes trickling down to those poor raccoons.
So they eating humans now?
They will if you try to feed them by hand.
Nigel?
Even humans scavenge for food in the garbage
2:00 - 2:20 ... sorry to piss on your parade, but those don't work.
Evolving LOL
Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here🎫
And where is the credit for Maker's Muse? At least put it on screen or add it to the description! Don't just say "a youtuber" even if his logo showed in his video.
Ayy, someone else who noticed, I also cmmented that, and on the video they took down before posting this re-upload. It's a shame to see it happen.
I wonder if they properly licensed that footage
@@BloodAsp yup, I thought that might have been the reason it was taken down. Disappointing to see it up again without the proper credits! Not hard to credit him is it!
@@IunaIia They are a news organization, so they don't technically have to, but it's still a d*ck move
quick anwser: no
I am NOT an animal.
I will not eat trash
The least they can do is segregate their trash and learn how to manage their biodegradables so they don't end up in the bins for the scavengers.
You re-posted the video, but still did not give credit to Makers Muse for their film? You should link to the video of theirs you used in three description, and mention it in the video imo. Sure you aren't required to, but it is the moral thing to do.
Shame.
how are they not required to?
Might want to separate bio waste into their own bins, like in some other countries, that way no need to pick up plastic trash which those animals throw out while digging.
We have red, yellow & green bins. Red is garbage, yellow is recyclables, green is organic matter like lawn clippings, no rotting food allowed. The cockies only open the red bins, they don't touch the yellow or green, cause they know there's no food in them
This is depressing. Humans have destroyed so much habitat, we have ruined nature - asking them to adapt to our unhealthy way of living.
there's WAY more of these birds than there were before whites colonised! They have overpopulated because they find living alongside humans so easy. We haven't asked them to adapt, they've chosen to join us!
Raccoons are getting diabetes!