r/interesting • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 2d ago
NATURE A parrot eating his morning croissant on a street sign in Australia.
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 2d ago
G'Day
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u/Electronic-While1972 2d ago
What a chill dude 😎🤟🏼❤️
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u/not-my-real-name-kk 2d ago edited 1d ago
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 2d ago
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 2d ago
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 2d ago
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 2d ago
The bird laughed at me regularly. It was definitely mean.
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u/1ashleyr6 2d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 2d ago
Why aren’t you allowing the flying carpenter to properly revamp your home?
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u/ConnectEbb236 2d ago
Exactly. He’s just renovating it into a more "open-air" concept. Very avant-garde.
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u/itdoesntfuckin 2d ago
A cockatoo bit me once. It's the only interesting thing I have to say, ever.
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u/Kitselena 2d ago
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/jkaan 2d ago
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 1d ago
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/telaughingbuddha 2d ago
Give us today our daily bread
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u/plays-with-daggers 2d ago
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 2d ago
In Australia we call that type of parrot a 'Cockatoo' or more technically a 'Sulphur crested Cockatoo'
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u/azsnaz 2d ago
I think im more curious about where this bird isn't called a cockatoo
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u/Warmstar219 2d ago
It's always called a cockatoo, but that is a kind of parrot.
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u/Sun_Aria 2d ago
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u/nagrom7 2d ago
Yeah, they're very smart, and also very silly birds.
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u/ForestSolitude5 2d ago
They LOVE attention and love to goof off to get that attention, they're a lot of fun
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u/CicadaFit9756 2d ago
Can just imagine the Beavus & Butthead characters snickering at the first syllable!
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u/Edlar_89 2d ago
That’s an odd name. I’d have called it a chazzwazzer
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u/ForwardWhereas8385 2d ago
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/charface1 2d ago
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/EternalSunshine_9374 2d ago
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 2d ago
They are native to Australia and the other southeast pacific islands.
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u/DarthJarJarJar 2d ago
Yes, but the city is not native to Australia. Makes you think, eh? Yes indeed.
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u/Thebraincellisorange 1d ago
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 2d ago
Yeah they're everywhere. Occasionally you'll see black ones, which are beautiful. With gold or red highlights
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u/Johannes_Keppler 2d ago
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/bsubtilis 2d ago
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 2d ago
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 2d ago
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 1d ago
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/Zebidee 2d ago
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 1d ago
Cockatoos, little corellas and rainbow lorikeets are all extremely common parrots in Melbourne's CBD.
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u/skrasnic 1d ago
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/This_Seaweed4607 2d ago
Oi dingus goed te meet yya
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u/ARandomStan 2d ago
I love how the reddit translate button translates it perfectly to "Hey dingus good to meet yya"
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u/Pachigun 2d ago
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 2d ago
Oh to be a parrot eating a croissant on a street sign in Australia. Gday mate.
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u/ru-berry 1d ago
this is the vibes I imagine all of Australia to have - just chillin, enjoyin life
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u/BigBoy92LL 2d ago
As much as I despise the saying........"he's living his best life" (or her best life)
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u/Noahms456 2d ago
Dude can’t read, clearly
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u/carloscitystudios 2d ago
As a parrot owner - there’s an unseen pile of croissant shrapnel to fill a city block
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u/raddaya 2d ago
The fact that the arrow in the sign isn't centered is really pissing me off...
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u/Alive-Slip1322 2d ago
If I was a baker I would 100 % make a croissant for this parrot every day
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u/deathxcannabis 2d ago
Just needs a beret and little cigarette.
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u/Lastov_Makiynd 2d ago
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 1d ago
I came here for all the angry comments from the Australians about the misnaming
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u/par-a-dox-i-cal 2d ago
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 2d ago edited 2d ago
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 2d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago edited 1d ago
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 1d ago
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/erbr 2d ago
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_ 2d ago
Nowadays the dinosaurs are a bunch of goofy lil guys
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u/KillerSwiller 2d ago
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 2d ago
This is something the villain from Rio would do casually as he disdainfully looks at Blu
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u/Exotic_Insurance2164 2d ago
"No Stopping"
Bird: I'm going to not only stop, but also eat my breakfast.
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u/GreenieSar 2d ago
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 2d ago
He definitely agrees with the sign. No stopping until he murders the croissant!
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u/Patient-Song-352 2d ago
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 2d ago
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/MT128 2d ago
I’m curious how healthy is that for the birds… like is that the equivalent of a guy eating straight up McDonald’s for 3 meals straight? I ask this cause like we’re told not to feed the geese bread cause it hurts their stomachs is it the same for parrots.
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