Sydney

This is what we know:

Sydney is a 26-year-old female Medium Sulfur-crested Cockatoo with a long history inside the same extended family. She has lived in three homes over her lifetime, all within that family, and this surrender is due to changes in caregiver mobility and availability.

She enjoys enrichment toys, wood blocks, head scratches, and direct attention. She loves banana, strawberries, bell peppers, and even jalapeño cores. She tends to prefer men and can be sweet and interactive when she’s in the mood.

Like most cockatoos, she is loud, expressive, intelligent, and emotionally complex. She will thrive with structure, boundaries, and an experienced home that understands cockatoo body language and respects cage space. She is not stick trained.

Age: 26

Sex: Female

Prefers: Males

Other Bird Aggressive? We haven’t allowed this bird to interact with other for their safety.

Cage Aggressive? No.

Adoption Fee: $1000

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100-to 250 up to 1000.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
None

***Information that is universal to every bird:

1) Birds are typically not family animals. They usually choose a favorite and at best you can expect them to tolerate everyone else.

2) Birds are not great with kids, dogs, other birds, and are not cuddly with everyone, nor can they really be trained to be. Birds are flock animals, who are social creatures that need to be in a communal area where they can see the rest of the family, or you may eperience serious vocalization and behavior problems. We’ve never met a bird who is great with kids, but we have met kids who are respectful of birds.

3) Birds bite. But, you shouldn’t “take the bite”. If you’re getting bit, you haven’t earned the trust of the bird, and are pushing the bird past his/her limits. You must figure out what the bird needs, and make what you’re asking of the bird more attractive than what they are already doing.

4) Birds are not “dominance” based creatures. Your only option for birds is to earn their trust. If they are, say…on top of a cage and don’t want to come down, that is where they feel safest, not a dominance thing. They are not trying to exert dominance, they just don’t want to come down. Your job as a parrot owner is to figure out what you can do to help them trust you, and whatever you are asking to be more attractive than what they are already doing.

5) NEVER send money over the internet for adoption with any individual or organization for the adoption of an animal you have not met in person. That is almost always a scam.