lesser sulfur crested cockatoo

[Giantmoa]

anyone have experience with these birds? my friend's family has had one for 20+ years and he is the biggest flirt! he says anything from "hey pretty bird" to "wanna come out?" to get you to give him attention. He's a lot of fun (gotta love cockatoos for that) so I was just wondering what other people's experience with them has been- or just with 'toos in general. I must say I've fallen in love with a baby cockatoo or two, the sweetest creatures ever, but am a bit leery of them as pets since I've heard so many horror stories about them growing up and developing behavioural problems and such (I suppose all birds really have the potential for behavioral problems though...)

[TheNzJessie]

theres 3 sulfer crested cockatoos at work. Robert, cookie bear and i cant remember the other ones name (I feel bad now)

i love cockatoos but i could never own one. to noisy (all the time)

cookiebear is a sweatheart

we had a cockatoo at the petstore i worked at (feels like a century ago) who found a blue ballpoint pen and she had blue ink all through her feathers for A LONG TIME) she also broke my pinky finger by biting it. and one time i was at the petstore alone closing up and vinnie thought it would be funny to not go in her cage and climb on the top (when i already needed a ladder to reach the door) she only liked males so i plucked one off the streets and got him to get her in her cage


they can be very rewarding as most birds but are a lifetime companion. so got to be dedication to not go on holidays and have a small family!


ill get some pictures on saturday of robert, cookiebear and bob (ill call him bob for now)

[entrancedbymyGCC]

My husband had a 'too he absolutely adored. I think it was a Moluccan. Smart, cuddly, very interactive. Unfortunately it died of PBFD, which is fairly common in 'toos. We seriously were considering one when we got Scotty, but they are very LOUD so it is probably as well we didn't. We have a house, but on a small suburban lot, and you can hear those birds for quite some distance -- a mile? a half mile? So it isn't just a question of us putting up with noise but of disrupting an entire neighborhood!

[SpeedyNyC]

Cockatoos are very sweet and cuddly. However, they're not for the beginner parrot owner. As any large parrot, they can be extremely loud. Any bird has the potential of having behavioral problems. You need to do your research.They're also extremely dusty birds. If this will be your first parrot, then I don't recommend it. But, some people get it right the first time if they do their research. You can train your bird to be quiet for the most part, but they will always have their bird moments. They need a lot of attention and plenty of toys in their cage to entertain themselves when you're not around.

My B&G Macaw (Gabby) was really loud when I first brought it home. I trained it to be quiet by walking out of the room every time it screamed until she was quiet for at least five minutes. You put food and water on their bowl at night when they go to sleep so you don't need to go to the room they're in when they're screaming. You have to be consistent. It all depends on the bird how long it will take for it to understand that it will not get your attention by screaming. It took Gabby about 6 weeks and she is now the quietest macaw I've ever seen. I get to sleep late on weekends and, even if I forget to put food on her bowl, she will not scream at all.

[Zanizaila]

I had a LSC2 I got when he was eighteen (and I barely nineteen).

He could say (in Swedish) "Hi", "Goodbye", "Gottgott" (no real translation, except "Good good", as in taste), "Was it good?", "Goodnight", "Good day good day" (Goddag goddag, very fast while "bowing" down). He screamed in the dark, every night with no exception. Scream scream scream... took perhaps twenty minutes before he would calm down, and then only with my other cockatoo, Yondo, close by.

If I left the room with Yondo, Egon would never stop scream.
He bit me several times, which left bruises. One time when he danced while sitting on my hand, he got too excited, and I got the taste of the infamous "three-point-cockatoo-bite".
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He loved to run around on the floor and was not afraid of getting under furniture to check things out. Not afraid of dogs or cats either, it was rather the other way around. He even bit my mastiff puppy right on the nose.

As other white cockatoos, they are loud, dusty, destructive, dangerous and demanding, wild animals.

[Giantmoa]

they're definetely not a bird I'd get anytime soon if ever but they're lots of fun to hang out with would you guys say cockatoos are louder than large macaws? I haven't heard a cockatoo at full volume yet but I've heard the scarlet at work go off- several times a day. I can take a BF amazon at full blast but a scarlet macaw is a bit much after a while and I wouldn't necassarily want to live with that no matter how lovable the bird

[SpeedyNyC]

they're definetely not a bird I'd get anytime soon if ever but they're lots of fun to hang out with would you guys say cockatoos are louder than large macaws? I haven't heard a cockatoo at full volume yet but I've heard the scarlet at work go off- several times a day. I can take a BF amazon at full blast but a scarlet macaw is a bit much after a while and I wouldn't necassarily want to live with that no matter how lovable the bird

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Put your volume all the way up and you'll hear a cockatoo screaming at full blast lol ... :-s. In my opinion, the sound is more annoying than that of a macaw, but that's just my opinion. But like I said in my previous post, I think all birds can be trained to be quiet with a lot of patience, dedication and consistency.