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cockatoo
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cockatoo
a group of birds in the family Psittacidae, characterized by a topknot of erectile feathers. Includes the Kakatoe and Microglossus genera. There are many species with different colors.
cockatoo beak and feather disease
see psittacine beak and feather disease.
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Schachner and her colleagues closely studied Alex, a well-known African grey parrot who passed away shortly after the study, and Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo whose humanlike dancing behavior had led to online fame.
Birds can dance just as rhythmically as humans by Asian News International
And the widower, who has never before been separated from his Greater Sulphur-crested cockatoo, was left distraught by the bird-napping.
Cockahoop; OWNER ECSTATIC AS STOLEN PET BIRD IS RETURNED by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
He had many birds as pets and particularly liked the sulphur-crested cockatoo mainly because it could talk but he liked all parrots.
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