greykangaroo
Well-known member
Every day people in the cities of Australia have to battle the cockatoos and corellas for control of their wheeled rubbish bins. Because the bins have the swing lid so that the contents tip into the rubbish truck, latches can't be fitted and householders try putting bricks on the bin's top.
So why have cockies developed a penchant for breaking into bins?
"These cockatoo behaviors are partly to counteract boredom because one thing they don't have in suburbia is enough old trees. They're designed for the forest where they're very useful.
"Yellow-tailed black cockatoos strip bark off [the trees], and then take grubs from under the bark, and … they're very important for the health of native trees."
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of white corellas and cockatoos across Australian cities are fighting back for a place in the new environment of fewer trees that humans have created.
Without the forest environment and ability to be proper wild-living birds, it's like telling 13- to 15-year-old boys 'we don't want you at home and we don't want you in school.
View attachment Battle for the bins.mp4
So why have cockies developed a penchant for breaking into bins?
"These cockatoo behaviors are partly to counteract boredom because one thing they don't have in suburbia is enough old trees. They're designed for the forest where they're very useful.
"Yellow-tailed black cockatoos strip bark off [the trees], and then take grubs from under the bark, and … they're very important for the health of native trees."
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of white corellas and cockatoos across Australian cities are fighting back for a place in the new environment of fewer trees that humans have created.
Without the forest environment and ability to be proper wild-living birds, it's like telling 13- to 15-year-old boys 'we don't want you at home and we don't want you in school.
View attachment Battle for the bins.mp4
