Ronnie By The Sea

The most common Cockatoo you will encounter wild in the suburbs of Australia is a  Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita). You can train them to eat from the palm of your hand, which is a great party trick when you have family or friends over and just a lot of fun to do when it's just you and these funny cockatoo birds. STEP 1: Make Bird Food Available to the Cockatoo Firstly, you want the cockatoo or a bunch of them to identify that there is bird food available in a designated place where you live - in some kind of a weatherproof bowl, I'd suggest just using the base from a potplant in a hanging basket (like in the video below). In terms of the type of bird food to select, any generic 'wild bird' food from the supermarket is ideal. Nothing expensive. STEP 2: Get Over the Fear of it Biting Your Hand Cockatoos are very intelligent and very gentle. As you can see in this video of a cockatoo bird when I let the Cockatoo bite my hand, it is gently 'feeling' my