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This bird is classified as '''vulnerable''' due to illegal trapping for the cage-bird trade. |
This bird is classified as '''vulnerable''' due to illegal trapping for the cage-bird trade. |
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Unforunately as they can live up to, and perhaps beyond, 80 years in age, are very social, needing a lot of interaction, and are VERY loud (their calls can be heard up to three miles away), most of the birds taken as pets end up struggling to live and are often forced to jump from one owner to the next. They are good pets. |
Unforunately as they can live up to, and perhaps beyond, 80 years in age, are very social, needing a lot of interaction, and are VERY loud (their calls can be heard up to three miles away), most of the birds taken as pets end up struggling to live and are often forced to jump from one owner to the next. They are good pets, as they are friendly and sociable and do not often attach to only one human the way many amazon parrots or African Grey parrots will. |
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The Umbrella Cockatoo, Cacatua alba, of Indonesia at first appears to be a solid white parrot with brown eyes. If it is surprised, it extends a large and striking crest, which has a semicircular shape (similar to an umbrella, hence the name.) The crest is normally recumbent. It also has bright yellow feathers underneath its wings which flash when they fly.
This bird is classified as vulnerable due to illegal trapping for the cage-bird trade.
Unforunately as they can live up to, and perhaps beyond, 80 years in age, are very social, needing a lot of interaction, and are VERY loud (their calls can be heard up to three miles away), most of the birds taken as pets end up struggling to live and are often forced to jump from one owner to the next. They are good pets, as they are friendly and sociable and do not often attach to only one human the way many amazon parrots or African Grey parrots will.