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c/australia · by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone · 1y

Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/04/cockatoos-drink-from-sydney-water-fountains

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13 Comments

FireWire400@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I love cockies so much, such beautiful birds. Really fucking noisy but pretty cool nonetheless.

timmytbt@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The ones around here are bloody vandals!

psud@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y

Canberra has had a bit of success in finding cockie resistant street lights

They especially like pulling at edges, if your infrastructure exposes a bit of a rubber seal the cockie will have that

saltesc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I hate them. They are more eshay than human eshays.

dumbass@leminal.space · 15 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I've been trying to tell people that those cockatoos are up to something, but nobody listens to dumbass.

BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Cockatoos are up to something alright. Shredding my verandah railing.

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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dumbass@leminal.space · 5 pts · 1y

It's all at once, they're obviously planing and timing these attack to get us when it will hurt!

And people wonder why I hate birds so much, they've just been biding their time, slowly chipping away at us untill we go extinct and they can take over, the crows are orchestrating this, cockatoos are just the attack squad, all birds play a role in this somehow.

someguy3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Drinking from the public fountain wasn’t just out of necessity, he said, given there was a creek nearby, only 500 metres away. There seemed to be an element of fun, he said. “The flock would come in, and they’d all be foraging and drinking – having a bit of a relax and a bit of a laugh.”

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 1y

That is so rad.

neenish_tart@aus.social · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

@zero_gravitas And this whole time we were afraid of AI...

zero_gravitas@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1y

But birds are AI!

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

If you extend the handle to be about 15cm long, it would be a perch and easy to operate.

Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Has Avian Flu found its way to Australia yet? This will help spread it around when it does get there.