Love how you are always honest and do not sugar coat things.

I have a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. I consider myself a zoo keeper not a pet owner.

Not gonna lie, when my husband and I went to the parrot shelter and met an adorable umbrella cockatoo, I had this video in mind. That being said, we can’t imagine our lives without her! Omg she’s the sweetest little girl in the world and she’s so loving, she spends equal time with the both of us 🥰 she LOOOVES singing with my husband when he plays the harpsichord, it’s precious! Her cute little googly eyes have such expression and she always looks like she’s smiling

Black Palm Cockatoos are gorgeous. They just look like a Lovecraftian horror and make me question how a demon possessed a bird

I babysat an Umbrella Cockatoo who would chase you, bite, badly, hold on and then laugh when done...and when someone who would away screaming and crying, he would come looking for you and if you were behing a door...would literally stick his beaks at the bottom of the door and say "I'm sorry, I love you and awww its ok"

I live in Australia, and lived in a share house with a very old cockatoo  with one foot.
He didn't like to fly, but liked to sit on his perch singing David Bowie's Space oddity, or just saying a lot of rude words under his breath.
If there was an argument in the house, he'd shriek "CALL THE COPS!"

I heard he passed away a few years ago. He was around 60 years old.

Aussie here, wild galahs are so much to watch, they flock in the hundreds and just goof around.

The only downside is 100 of them can be very noisy at 6am

Jamie don't apologize,  I value your opinion because it is based on knowledge and experience. The  haters are usually ignorant. I had a female umbrella and she was a quiet, mellow sweetheart. It wasn't until much later that I learned that she was a one of a kind anomaly. You are spot on 90% or more of cockatoo owners should not have one. They destroy them and they become neurotic unhappy feather pluckers. Very sad . Don't hold back you will be saving a bird.

I'm an Australian who fostered a galah for a few months after it had been surrender to my avian vet with severe behaviour issues that had caused it to self-mutilate.  It's wing was so badly injured it had to be amputated.  JoJo was really sweet with me initially - he seemed very grateful to be with someone who cared for him.  A few months in he became really aggressive.  By the time his permanent home was ready, I was ready to give him back.  The avian vet told me that galahs should never be raised alone as in the wild they are raised in big groups and it's how they learn their social skills.  JoJo had been taken from the wild and hand raised in isolation.  The vet believed this was a big reason behind his behaviour problems.  Often in the wild the babies are left all together in a crèche tree with a few adult birds watching out for them while the parents go off feeding.  I love galahs (all cockatoos really) but not sure I'd ever take one on full time again.   As to noise levels, the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo is incredibly loud.  My neighbour had one that mimicked the phone ringing and fooled me many times.  It also whistled and called the dogs.  When the dogs came running it would screech "now get!" and cackle with laughter.  Funniest bird.

This is Onni "the baby cockstoo's" mom. Thank you, thank you, and thank you. Did I say thank you? Well thank you for such a detailed complete video on cockatoos. I am not even half way through the video and I am so excited to hear that even one of the most experienced experts also has dealt with and seen in other Umbrellas what I have gone through with Onni. I knew I wasn't failing him, but at the same time I had nagging doubts. Now I know most behaviors that I am dealing with are natural to the species and just need to be strategized around and even accepted. He is not "bad or difficult" and I am not an inept owner.  The relief of not feeling alone is indescribable. You will have helped my family (me, Scott, Chet, Sean, Erin along with others) immensely and because of you we will be more confident and relaxed... and so thereby will Onni!!!  I can't wait to watch this video with Scott.  I try my best to be honest and show viewers the trials and tribulations of raising an umbrella cockatoo. I film all the bad, not just the cute while I take viewers on a journey of seeing the world through his eyes and encourage people to "think outside of the cage" with any animal companion along with themselves as well.

I think Mollucan Cockatoos are my favorite to admire (from afar, with a mute button handy). I have some cockatoo celebrities I follow and love— Marlene’s Jersey, Mr. Max, Pebble. Three very different, awesome personalities but sooo spunky, playful and loving. I would nevvvverrr be a match for a demanding breed like a cockatoo, but they are somehow the most “people-like” to me in the range of their emotions, and I just love seeing their strong bonds and personalities with their people.

This is so insightful! I think Palm cockatoos are BEAUTIFUL!

Any chance you could do a similar video about Greys? My husband and I have a rescue that we adore and I was just curious about how you guys view them!

Hey non-bird person here! I love birds and think they're amazing but i don't ill ever be in a situation where i'd feel comfortable actually owning one. So i get my fix from you guys :)
I'd love if you did a 'bird body-language 101' kind of video. As a non bird owner i find myself not understanding the difference between different kinds of feather-puffing etc, and id love to learn more just out of curiosity.

I have an Umbrella Cockatoo.. he's so unpredictable, I'm trying my best to do the best I can for him, I rescued him from an abusive situation and he's very unsocialized and I'm making small steps with him.. I've been bit Alot, but I'm not going to give up on him.. I really love him.. Thank you for all your videos, they've helped me so much.. still trying..

Summertime is the worse time here not because of the heat but the relentless sound of juvenile galahs begging for food from their parents. If you’re outside you can’t escape it. They’re still cute though.

I have a umbrella cockatoo and  he's the funniest bird  I've ever known and I love him 🕊

Jamie, your perception of cookatoos' is spot on.
People who are even thinking about getting one "maybe" SHOULD know the downfalls of owning one for 75 years. They ARE the most re-homed bird out there and that's why I try to make other people see that, "why" because they have multiple traits that do not go with a mild, timid, easily hurt person.
You have to be a very strong willed person to handle their behavior issues! Thanks for being honest and truthful to potential cookatoo owners and they have to consider their family members, because the bird will effect them, also!
Everyone is living under the same roof.

I live in Australia and have had 4 galahs over the years.  All of them have flown away/escaped.  They were all males. Two had wild girlfriends they escaped for.  Kramer, my first one, was a baby from a pet shop, not hand reared. I had him the longest and he did free flight and talked quite well.  He was an escape artist. His final escape was when we were on holidays and the carer accidentally let him out and didn’t know his recall sound (spoon on cereal bowl) and he left permanently with his wild girlfriend. The second was Newman.  He was a wild baby, injured from a fall or hit by a car and found on a road by a school.  He had a broken wing and the vet said he’d never be able to fly. About a month after his bandage came off, we were in the garden with him and Kramer,  and a flock of wild galahs flew over and Newman just took off with them.  Kramer did too, but turned back when I called.  About 6 months later we were in the garden with Kramer again and a bunch of wild galahs flew past and Kramer called out and one came down to him.  We are positive it was Newman because he was within arm’s reach of us and they talked human-babble to each other for about 10-20 minutes, then they both flew away, but Kramer stopped at our fence. After Kramer’s devastating permanent escape, a friend got me a hand-reared baby galah, Kuli.  He did that annoying baby begging sound and crazy things with his toys and was just a great bird!  Before he started to talk, he was scared by a sound as I was bringing him into the house and he flew off my hand.  He hung around the area for two days and then I lost track of him.  He was last seen in a flock of about 8 galahs.  The last one was Joey.  He said his name was Joey in an old-man voice.  I got him when I put up flyers to find Kuli.  A guy that had aviaries of finches had a galah come and refuse to leave. The man said he thought Joey might appreciate a proper home so I went and got him.  He lived happily with us for a couple years and then escaped after a wild female started hanging around for a few weeks.  They are just soooo clever!  I had the padlock on the water door while I was cleaning his water dish, but it wasn’t actually snapped shut, just looked Iike it was shut, and he must have grabbed it and twisted it and thrown it off because when I came around the corner he was head and shoulders out of the water door.  He made the contact call, his girlfriend answered back and he was off, never to be be seen again (that I know of).  During the time of Joey I got a rescue female Major Mitchell cockatoo.  She had no tail and it has never grown back, so she can’t fly.  She has wonky feet and can’t grip a perch, so there’s no way she’d survive in the wild even if she had a tail.  She was found in a bare wire cage totally neglected - probably about 2 years old then.  I’ve had Luna for 10 years now and she is the quietest, most grateful, spunky but gentle bird I’ve ever had. I never tried to touch her or feed her from my hand.  Her cage was next to Joey’s and she  learned from him that humans give great scratchies and tasty food from their hands. She has never bitten me or anyone else I know of.  She’ll squawk and tap you with her beak or grab you gently if she disapproves of something.  She does “crazy bird” flapping and shrieking in her cage 2-3 times a week in the morning after breakfast for under a minute. She loves scratchies and nuts and allows herself to be picked up to be transported out of her cage.  She doesn’t talk, but she is great at communicating.  I will  never get another able-bodied bird again.  I will only get rescue birds.  Cockatoos are so intelligent, and to keep them in a cage when there are wild ones around is cruel.  I regret that it took 4 galahs to realize that.  I wishfully hope they are flying free with a flock....

My umbrella coockatoo is very friendly and doesnt bite. And they love to be with people he hasnt seen in a long time. He starts dancing than

Also for some reason, the small cockatoo's beaks scare me more than the big ones. I've had sulphur-cresteds (medium and lesser, the lesser's beak was bigger!), those big black beaks almost never bit me, but when they did, it's mostly an even pressure across the finger. The tiny, white beaks look like perfect flesh-removers.