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

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • timmytbt@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The ones around here are bloody vandals!

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.”

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is so rad.

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• neenish_tart@aus.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But birds are AI!

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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