Cockatoos

These small farmers are called Cockatoos in Australia by the squatters or sheep-farmers, who dislike them for buying up the best bits of land on their runs; and say that, like a cockatoo, the small freeholder alights on good ground, extracts all he can from it, and then flies away to "fresh fields and pastures new."

Station Life in New Zealand 1871

Cockatoos are especially difficult companion birds says Weiner because they can be "clinging" and become jealous or temperamental -- though none are unadoptable he hastens to add; they just need the right home.

Sure You're Ready for a Dancing Cockatoo like Snowball? 2009

Cockatoos, Macaws, all manner of parrots, parakeets and conures.

My mini-vacation « knitnut.net 2008

I know that if my path ever took me to a place where Rosellas come up to the window and Cockatoos hang out on the lawn- I'd never leave!

Rosella school: the version with pictures StyleyGeek 2007

Cockatoos over there -- this is a young baby, as a matter of fact.

CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007 2007

Cockatoos have the most rawkous, unpleasant shriek of any bird on this planet and they are not conducive to Sunday morning sleep-ins.

Archive 2006-01-01 StyleyGeek 2006

Cockatoos, lories, and parroquets were really the only common birds.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Why are the Macaws and the Cockatoos similarly restricted?

On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

Cockatoos scream it; scrub-fowls chuckle over it; honey-eaters make a song about it; the listening lilies overhear the lotus-birds whispering it, and, nodding, smile.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Cockatoos had acquired a taste for the seeds of citrus fruits, to the dismay of owners of groves, but in consequence of the loss of the entire crop these birds have not been able to indulge the habit.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003