3 Steps to Train a Wild Cockatoo to Eat from the Palm of your Hand

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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 hand with its beak (and tongue). Cockatoos will never bite you aggressively.


STEP 3: Establish Trust

The cockatoos will by now have associated you with the bird food as they can see you from the trees when you put bird food out for them, even noting where you keep the container of birdfood.

They are very smart. But still don't know if they can trust you enough to eat birdfood from the palm of your hand.

The way to establish trust with a cockatoo is to move gradually into their space and talk calmly to them. Show the open hand full of bird food to them and within a few minutes it will eat from the palm of your hand.


That's all it takes... trust and the courage to try it.


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