I've had an umbrella, a moluccan, and a lesser sulfur crested. A friend of mine bred and raised goffins and rose breasteds. Beautiful birds with such wonderful personalities. But that scream! ;7

I'm exceptionally lucky my Moluccan is actually a pretty quiet one - she rarely screams full out. Usually just once or twice a day for a few seconds - she's the quietest cockatoo I've ever met. :)

You're very lucky. Mine were all screamers. Even with all the windows closed, you could hear them a mile away. ;P

Eee - cool!

Pink galahs were out on the lawn this morning. And a mass of red-taiiled black cockatoos have been clowning about the trees.

They always seem to be having more fun than most other life forms!

Aaah, I want to see wild cockatoos so bad. Australia is a dream trip of mine. I really can't imagine the giant flocks of them just out and about, I think I could spend my entire trip just watching them and be so happy :)

wonderfully common here in the inner suburbs of Perth! Red tailled blacks, galahs and coerellas.... plus happy flocks of rainbow lorikeets!

These are so nice! The way you've arranged them makes it all the more interesting, too; they look like they're enjoying themselves. :)

I've seen all these birds in real life, in nature and its nice to see them together here in your illustration. The most common ones we get are the Corella or as you call them Goffin's. They are in plague proportions here at certain points during the year and there is much controversy about culling them rather than just scaring them off.

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That's so amazing, I really can't wrap my head around living with giant flocks of wild parrots on a day to day basis! We have something similar here in my city with crows - I love them and am glad they are around but it's a mob place for the winter and the city is constantly at war with them. Sometimes they try scaring them off, sometimes they cull a bunch, it's frustrating to me most people just see them as a nuisance.

I know what you mean, they are a part of nature that have had to adapt to us upsetting the balance. The corellas are pests because we have a lot of pine and eucalyptus trees (and almond trees) that they like to eat the seed or flowers of and play in. They also like the grape growing areas near by and can really strip a crop if in a mind to...the poor suburbanites get woken up by their noise, their cars get pooped on and because of the street lights the corellas are awake at night to a certain degree and squawk which disturbs the poor suburbanites even more. I just ignore em and go to sleep, enjoy their squawking and noise making in the morning as a sign that I am alive and nature is still out there waiting patiently. As for poop on my car...it'll wash and most of the time its under cover. I have had worse issues with feral people than natures bounty but we don't get to scare or cull the feral people...lol.

I love watching the parrots play though the most. There is a Hungry Jacks fast food place not far from where I live and a big old park with huge pine trees near by. If I'm lucky I get to sit and enjoy a cheap meal and watch a few Sulfur Crested Cockatoos mucking about, playing and displaying to each other. The trees are home to a small flock of about eight birds. They dance, they swing on branches, nuzzle each other, one of them was once a tame bird that can talk and still comes out with the odd word now and then. So now and then you hear "Dance Cocky" or laughing like the laughing track that some TV shows come with. It's fun to watch and listen to them.

Galahs are dime a dozen and Major Mitchell common enough but I don't often see gang-gang, umbrella, moluccan, red-tailed black, and palm cockatoos locally but most of them can be found with 10-15 minutes drive into our local hills.

*hugs*

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