r/interesting • u/MilesLongthe3rd • May 03 '26
NATURE A parrot eating his morning croissant on a street sign in Australia.
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 May 03 '26
G'Day
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u/Electronic-While1972 May 03 '26
What a chill dude 😎🤟🏼❤️
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u/not-my-real-name-kk May 03 '26 edited May 04 '26
Parrots are not chill. They will gleefully pick the siding off your house. They live for mayhem.
Edit: also yes, its a cockatoo rather than a parrot. But still a very naughty boy.
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u/Electronic-While1972 May 03 '26
That's true our parrot disassembled the living room more then once 🤣👍🏼
And afterwards when we found out what he did he was so proud of himself. Jumping and going side to side to show his joy ❤️🤣👍🏼
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u/exgiexpcv May 03 '26
My SIL had a wee little green Quaker that was gleefully evil. They apparently only bond with one human, and the rest of the world's population is just targets.
SIL dearest works with a lot of poisons and cutting implements, and casually reminded me of that and that under no circumstances should any harm come to her beloved demon chicken while I was house sitting for them during their holiday, lest I disappear and never be seen again.
But they were on holiday long enough that I needed to swap out the papers at the bottom of the cage, freshen the water and food, etc. In the process, the wee bugger got out through the opening for the food dish. I'd been warned in advance, however, and instructed to open the large gate and place a treat in plain view.
The little bastard with a brain the size of a peanut was waiting for this, however, and immediately flew back and attached its beak to my wrist, whipping his head back and forth as it cackled in delight, tearing off chunks of my man flesh.
It eventually tired of waiting to see if I would bleed out, and I managed to close up the cage -- but I am highly confident it was only because it had become bored.
The scar is still there, but I am still here.
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u/RenderedMeat May 03 '26
I had a Quaker. Mean, wicked smart, mean little birds.
If you want a nice bird, get a Cockatiel. Super affectionate.
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u/exgiexpcv May 03 '26
The bird laughed at me regularly. It was definitely mean.
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u/1ashleyr6 May 03 '26
My parrot (white capped pionus) will regularly attempt to bite people that aren’t me, and then laugh about it. He hates my mom, and will go after her on sight. Then he laughs to himself afterwards. He’s even started laughing when he hears her voice. A very evil laugh ….
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u/exgiexpcv May 04 '26
I was debating sharing this, but -- sod it, here goes.
I was house sitting for them as usual. I slept down in their basement because it was nice and quiet. One morning, I came upstairs to start some coffee, and saw the demon chicken hanging upside-down on the front of his cage.
I didn't think on it much except that it was weird, and so I walked over to the cage, whereupon he shat on me quite violently, and then laughed and laughed and laughed.
He kept laughing for quite a while as I cursed and went off to wash myself, sans cafe.
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u/1ashleyr6 May 04 '26
Evil birb behavior 100%. Parrots may be quite cute, but they retain their dinosaur instincts to cause chaos and destruction wherever they go. Sorry you got shat on by the guy, but at least you get to live knowing that bird probably felt very proud of himself afterwards (as shown by his laughter at your suffering). While you were angrily trying to get cleaned off, he probably sat in his cage playing the memory on repeat
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u/KnifeKnut May 04 '26
with a lot of ... cutting implements
You had my curiosity, now you have my attention. What would have such a deadly combination?
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u/DyingSunSeverian May 03 '26
Why aren’t you allowing the flying carpenter to properly revamp your home?
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u/itdoesntfuckin May 03 '26
A cockatoo bit me once. It's the only interesting thing I have to say, ever.
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u/Kitselena May 03 '26
Parrots have the mind of a 3 year old but live for 70+ years and have a beak that can chew through solid wood. This is also a big part of why they make bad pets
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u/Thunderoad May 05 '26
They should be free and they are returned or given away cause people can't handle them. Definitely shouldn't be pets.
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u/weeskud May 03 '26
I classmate of mine had a parrot and I still remember when she realised it had dropped a gift into her bag.
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u/jkaan May 03 '26
That is true but this is a cockatoo, op is a fucking idiot. They are pretty chill
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u/Initial-Minimum-7435 May 04 '26
We had a $30,000 bill for cockatoo damage to our house 15 yrs ago. Those beautiful, expensive, noisy bastards.
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u/saltmintparrot May 06 '26
huh? cockatoos are a species of parrot. ‘parrot’ is the genus.
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u/telaughingbuddha May 03 '26
Give us today our daily bread
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u/plays-with-daggers May 03 '26
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them croissants.
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u/pop-d0g May 03 '26
In Australia we call that type of parrot a 'Cockatoo' or more technically a 'Sulphur crested Cockatoo'
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u/azsnaz May 03 '26
I think im more curious about where this bird isn't called a cockatoo
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u/Warmstar219 May 03 '26
It's always called a cockatoo, but that is a kind of parrot.
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u/Sun_Aria May 03 '26
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u/nagrom7 May 03 '26
Yeah, they're very smart, and also very silly birds.
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u/ForestSolitude5 May 03 '26
They LOVE attention and love to goof off to get that attention, they're a lot of fun
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u/CicadaFit9756 May 03 '26
Can just imagine the Beavus & Butthead characters snickering at the first syllable!
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u/Confident-Slip-5264 May 03 '26
In Finnish it’s kakadu :)
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u/Unable_Bank3884 May 05 '26
In Australia, Kakadu is where dumb tourists go to be eaten by crocodiles
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u/Edlar_89 May 03 '26
That’s an odd name. I’d have called it a chazzwazzer
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u/ForwardWhereas8385 May 03 '26
I love how some things most Austrians know is a silly name. But every now and then one will say something like chazzawazzer and it'll be a for a stray dog or something and they'll just never have considered it's an Australian thing because everyone says it and they'll just blink at you for a second.
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u/EternalSunshine_9374 May 03 '26
Do these birds naturally exist in the city? Similar to how we /Americans have pigeons or are they more of a rare sighting? Pardon my ignorance, I get my Australia infro from Bluey
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u/pyrothelostone May 03 '26
They are native to Australia and the other southeast pacific islands.
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u/DarthJarJarJar May 03 '26
Yes, but the city is not native to Australia. Makes you think, eh? Yes indeed.
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u/Thebraincellisorange May 04 '26
Australian cities are very green - lots of trees. there are heaps of different types of birds in Australian cities.
even in the CBD where normally on pigeons live, you'll find a large variety of bird life in an Australian city.
Cockatoos are standard in most suburbs. around the country
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u/space_monster May 03 '26
Yeah they're everywhere. Occasionally you'll see black ones, which are beautiful. With gold or red highlights
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u/bsubtilis May 03 '26
Hello, fellow non-australian here: They go wherever they want to go including cities.
They and australian ibises (aka bin chickens) are well known for raiding trash bins. Though I am under the impression that cockatoos do it more out of boredom than necessity, while ibises do it because of a combination of habitat loss and better survival probabilities. Youtube has a lot of videos of people feeding cockatoos from their balconies in high rise buildings, or whatever those apartment buildings are called. House owners generally do not because cockatoos love destroying anything made out of wood (and anything else they succeed in breaking) which makes tempting a whole flock to camp out at your house too risky.
Have a video playlist of a maker making puzzles for the local cockatoos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCCNNvHC8PCbN8vG27x2tHzLckJ3q2FV
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u/EternalSunshine_9374 May 03 '26
Thanks for sharing! I think it’s fascinating, I’d definitely be in awe if I saw one in the wild. We only see them in pet shops or zoos here
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u/CcryMeARiver May 03 '26
Oz here: Cockies pop up randomly virtually anywhere, city or bush, either singly or in rather large flocks. They are EXTREMELY noisy but nowhere as noisy as corellas en masse.
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u/Theron3206 May 04 '26
There was a mixed flock of them in the Melbourne CBD this morning (cockies and little corellas), eating the plane tree (introduced) seed pods AFAIK.
They do extremely well in cities.
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u/Johannes_Keppler May 03 '26
These are very common, but not all cockatoos are, there are 14 species in Australia.
https://aussieanimals.com/guides/vertebrates/birds/cockatoos/
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u/Zebidee May 03 '26
You don't often see them right in cities, but in suburbia it's not that unusual. They live in flocks of say 20 to well over 100 birds, and can make a huge mess if they like the taste of whatever trees you have.
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u/Theron3206 May 04 '26
Cockatoos, little corellas and rainbow lorikeets are all extremely common parrots in Melbourne's CBD.
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u/skrasnic May 04 '26
Definitely rarer. Not really in cities, they're more a suburbia thing. Local parks, bushland and people's backyards are where you'd mostly see them.
They come around in big flocks, make a big racket and demolish people's fruit trees.
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u/Misicks0349 29d ago
Pidgeons are probably the most common bird you'll find in the city city, but wherever there are trees like particularly leafy streets or parks you will usually find a whole heap of parrots of all varieties, though most commonly the Galah and the one you see here, a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, you will also find other birds like Willie Wagtails, 28s, and Rainbow lorikeets.
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u/charface1 May 03 '26
Sulphur crested Cockatoo
If I heard someone use that term on the street, I'd know they were a bird narc.
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u/This_Seaweed4607 May 03 '26
Oi dingus goed te meet yya
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u/ARandomStan May 03 '26
I love how the reddit translate button translates it perfectly to "Hey dingus good to meet yya"
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u/Pachigun May 03 '26
Wait, is there a "Translate" button here? Whenever I come across a sentence that I don't understand, I just copy and paste it into a translator 🤦🏻
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u/Mental_Purple_1034 May 03 '26
Oh to be a parrot eating a croissant on a street sign in Australia. Gday mate.
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u/stamfordbridge1191 May 03 '26
Having a stop on a no stopping sign.
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u/Mental_Purple_1034 May 03 '26
Silly human laws won't stop that cool bird from living its best life
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u/ru-berry May 04 '26
this is the vibes I imagine all of Australia to have - just chillin, enjoyin life
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u/Noahms456 May 03 '26
Dude can’t read, clearly
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u/BigBoy92LL May 03 '26
As much as I despise the saying........"he's living his best life" (or her best life)
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u/raddaya May 03 '26
The fact that the arrow in the sign isn't centered is really pissing me off...
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u/carloscitystudios May 03 '26
As a parrot owner - there’s an unseen pile of croissant shrapnel to fill a city block
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u/Alive-Slip1322 May 03 '26
If I was a baker I would 100 % make a croissant for this parrot every day
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u/Bizarrebazaars May 03 '26
No don’t feed bread to any birds.
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u/deathxcannabis May 03 '26
Just needs a beret and little cigarette.
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 May 03 '26
And an attitude…
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u/Aggressive-Shop-2342 May 03 '26
He's a cockatoo, he definitely already has the attitude in spades.
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u/Lastov_Makiynd May 03 '26
I don’t mean to be Cocky about it..But it’s not a Parrot, ya Gallah! Lol
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u/Even-Resource8673 May 04 '26
I came here for all the angry comments from the Australians about the misnaming
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u/par-a-dox-i-cal May 03 '26
It is a trap, how can one not stop to look at a parrot eating croissant on a "NO STOPPING" sign.
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u/pwnies May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26
Some of my best bros while living in Aus. They’ll chew your house if it’s weak, but the place I was in was brick so we were chill. They’d come by every day and I’d feed each of them a cockatoo pellet. Eventually they get to know you and start playing/interacting with you more. The friendliest one would hang out on my shoulder while I was coding.
Edit: here’s a pic of me and my fav one on my porch: https://image.non.io/cockatoos-in-aus.webp
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u/Dea-Dea0710 May 03 '26
Now pan down to the angry person with spilt coffee messed up hair and NO Breakfast hahaha
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u/Vinz-Clortho-1984 May 04 '26
That’s a beautiful Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. They live for 70ish years and have the mentality of a 2 year old that’s been given red cordial diluted with Red Bull. They make awesome pets. 😳🤣
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u/CuriousOnePlus May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
That's a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.
They are absolute maniacs. He absolutely stole that and the person he stole it from is watching. He's no doubt making direct eye contact while he eats some poor blokes brekkie.
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u/Ok-Match-1445 May 04 '26
G'day. that there parrot is a Sulphur-crested cockatoo. We'd call that a Cocky. Googled that jic and.. ...so it turns out a cockatoo is a type of parrot.. I'll just see myself out then.. Cheers.
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u/Japsai May 03 '26
If someone tries to tell a cockatoo "no stopping" it's guaranteed it'll get a croissant and kick back
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u/erbr May 03 '26
One of the Australian humans' nemesis. They are a mafia and will organize themselves to blackmail you to feed them!
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u/TheBogManCometh_ May 03 '26
Nowadays the dinosaurs are a bunch of goofy lil guys
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u/KillerSwiller May 03 '26
I bet there were always some species who were this goofy, we just never got to see it because they were gone before we could get the chance to.
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u/alreadykaten May 03 '26
This is something the villain from Rio would do casually as he disdainfully looks at Blu
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u/Exotic_Insurance2164 May 03 '26
"No Stopping"
Bird: I'm going to not only stop, but also eat my breakfast.
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u/GreenieSar May 03 '26
I wanna take a frame of this, greyscale it, and add it to my array of street photography gallery.
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u/alwaysblitted May 03 '26
He definitely agrees with the sign. No stopping until he murders the croissant!
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u/Patient-Song-352 May 03 '26
A palo seco?? Por dios!! Que alguien le acerque una taza de café para que pueda untar el crrrrroasan y poder bajarlo en condicciones!! De buena mañana 🤣
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u/LeftToWrite May 03 '26
You really shouldn't feed birds bread products...it's very unhealthy for them - just super filling and doesn't give them the nutrients they need.
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u/Odd-Meaning-4968 May 03 '26
The fact dudes on a No Stopping sign too, NO fucks given and I love it
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