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   A popular bird of the Australian country | sulphur devices cockatoo crested display contraptions impediments shebang array trappings sulphur crested at paragraph accessories articles rig fittings material appliances sulphur crested cockatoo provisioning and kit Attachments facilities habiliments sulphur of crested on cockatoo accompaniments utensils writing fashion funny ornaments outfit stock sulphur to crested off cockatoo gadget cockatoo furnishings belongings ear provisions vestiges machinery on crested up things appurtenances cockatoo stuff attachment show words contrivances teams crested in read listen equipage cockatoo fixtures tools setup furniture article apparatus baggage traps gadgets sets kaboodle tackle collections sulphur | Australia was called the land of parrots ( Terra psittacorum) , by Belgian map maker Gerard Mercator. He knew where this continent was in the 16th century, before the officially recorded landing in 1606. Obviously, Europeans mu...

Australian wild cockatoos have been "infiltrated" by domesticated cockatoos who have escaped. Wild birds are copying words learned by escaped household pets. Cockatoos are not the only wild birds being affected in this way. Galahs and corellas shout out words that startle people. Escaped birds breed with their wild counterparts and chicks learn to talk from parents. The parrot family is extremely good at mimicking sounds they hear. Songbirds and hummingbirds can also do this to a degree. The problem is cockatoos and parakeets are social animals. To wild birds a word is just a new sound to be learned and used socially. Human babbling to learn language is called subsong in birds, where chicks learn by trial and error. Like humans, cockatoos continue to learn "words" all through their lives. "Natural" cockatoo sounds go together to form a language which has its own grammar. Human words are being integrated into this language. A pet bird may only hea...