Umbrella Cockatoo For Sale

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Description

Umbrella Cockatoo For Sale

 

Smart lovely umbrella Cockatoo For Sale, these parrots are extremely friendly and love to be handled. Like most cockatoos Umbrella Cockatoos make very loving pets that need lots of attention. They can learn to talk, as can most cockatoos and are easy to teach all kinds of tricks. Buy a cockatoo only if you can spend a lot of time with it.
Umbrella Cockatoos are a full-sized cockatoo. They are primarily white with long wide crest feathers that resemble an umbrella when raised. The underside of the wings and tail is also frequently tinged with yellow. They have black beaks and dark-grey feet.

Umbrella Cockatoos are medium-sized cockatoos weighing between 17 oz (480 g) to 25 oz (700 g) on average (565 g). They are around 18 inches (46 cm) long on average. Their wingspan ranges from 9.84 to 12.2 inches (25 to 31 cm). (Juniper and Parr, 1998; Arndt and Pittman, 2003)

Umbrella Cockatoos are huge white parrots with brown, reddish, or black eyes, as well as dark grey beaks and legs. Males and females both have pale blue eye rings, but males have dark brown eyes while females have reddish eyes. The female likewise has a smaller head and beak than the male.

 

Social Behaviors

All cockatoo species coexist in flocks in the wild. Some species may congregate in flocks of just 8–10 birds, while others may congregate in flocks of thousands. The great requirement for sociability has a significant impact on cockatoo behavior. If they do not receive the required level of interaction and attention, they may soon grow bored. It’s really challenging to break negative habits like shouting and feather plucking that a bored cockatoo frequently develops.
Here are some guidelines to provide the best environment and promote good cockatoo behavior:

 

Keeping Single Cockatoo:

Intelligent and highly inquisitive, coupled with a great need for companionship, shapes the cockatoo behavior. Cockatoos are constantly active and always up for playing and interacting with a friend. Keeping a single cockatoo will take serious commitment of time and attention from you for your pet to thrive. Each day you will need to spend a good deal of time playing with your cockatoo and sharing affections.

Keeping a Pair of Cockatoos:
They also do fine with another bird of similar size for companionship. The main reason for pairing is so that they do not become so dependent on their keeper and their keepers time.
The drawback to keeping a pair is that the noise will be much greater. They love to play and will keep it up all day, but part of their play includes loud calls, which in some cases can turn into long earsplitting shrieks.

Cockatoos and Pets:
The Cockatoos and other pets, such as dogs and cats, may or may not develop a friendly relationship with each other. This is generally a “wait and see” situation. If they fall prey to the cockatoo’s beak, it can be fatal.

Cockatoos and Children:
Never leave cockatoos unattended with babies or small children! Cockatoos can get very jealous of babies and small children. Cockatoos and older children will often do fine, but even here it’s a “wait and see” situation. You won’t know for sure how they will get along until the relationship unfolds over time

 

Care and feeding of Umbrella Cockatoo For Sale

A roomy cage is required (minimum 2 ft. x 2 ft. x 3 ft. high) unless the bird is to be let out for extended periods. Many birds can spend most of their time on a play pen or parrot perch. They eat a variety of seeds, nuts, fruits, and commercial pellets, as well as the same nutritional foods humans eat. A Cockatoo diet consisting of a basic large hookbill seed mix supplemented with sprouted seeds and various fruits and vegetables is widely accepted.

Some examples of supplements are apples, pears, plums, raisons, oranges, bananas, peaches, carrots, broccoli, lettuce, chickweed, dandelions, and lots more! Do not feed avocado as it is toxic to birds!
Stay away from highly seasoned, fatty processed meats.
Vitamins and minerals should not be necessary with a good varied diet except in times of change or stress. 

 

Speech and Vocalizations

While the occasional cockatoo can imitate human speech, in general, these parrots are not good talkers or imitators of sound. They have a loud, grating screech or scream and may hiss when alarmed.This bird makes an incredible amount of noise. It is prone to loud screams, especially when isolated, trapped in a cage, or denied its wishes. Screaming is frequently used to express the bird’s anger; the louder the scream, the greater the bird’s disdain of its surroundings. On the plus side, the umbrella can be trained to communicate and may develop a vocabulary of more than 50 words, though most will not.

 

Umbrella Cockatoo Size/Wingspan

Umbrella Cockatoos are medium-sized birds approximately seventeen to eighteen inches in length, and weighing around one to one-and-a-half pounds. The wingspan of this parrot averages around twenty-two inches.

 

Temperament

By nature, umbrella cockatoos are peaceful, docile, and sweet-tempered, making them ideal companion birds. Umbrella cockatoos mate for life in the wild. They create a very close bond with their spouse, probably more so than other cockatoo species. They will flock with other umbrella cockatoos and are rarely separated from their mate. When a mated pair is separated, it is fairly uncommon for both birds to become depressed. 

Umbrella Cockatoo For Sale are rarely aggressive, they will quickly form strong bonds with their caretakers. These affectionate birds love to cuddle with their person, bird, or even object of choice. Equally loving and devoted owners are a good match for these parrots. This species begs to be spoiled, so plan on at least one to two hours of training, attention, and enrichment per day.

 

Umbrella Cockatoo Colors and Markings

Umbrella cockatoos are primarily white with a pure white crest. When courting a mate, agitated, excited, scared, or even just frustrated, its crest will raise into an impressive umbrella-like fan. It can also be a peculiar way to express curiosity at something new and, quite often, is a warning that the bird wants to be left alone. It’s also a good warning sign that the bird may bite if approached.

Additional information

SEX

Male, Female, Pair

AGE

4-8 Months, 9 Months – 1 Year, 2-5 Years

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