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The John Batchelor Show

#OzWatch: `Brioche dining Cockatoo naamed Mickey. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:36.5

Jeremy Zackus in New South Wales introduces me to a cockatoo, which is a beautiful bird and apparently has a sweet tooth.

0:46.0

In this particular instance the sweet tooth I think replaced the cockatoo's better

0:52.0

sense of where he or she belongs.

0:55.0

Jeremy, I take it this is a mall and there are lots of sweet things on the racks.

1:01.0

And birds get in there and fly around we have stores that big they

1:06.2

fly around in the rafters this cockatoo overstayed what was the cockatoo's

1:11.8

name what was it feasting on and how did they get it out?

1:17.0

Well, John, the cockatoo's name is Mickey and it's Mickey the cockatoo.

1:20.2

It's a big white sappered cockatoo, so a big white bird with the yellow top notch on its head, and it basically turned up in MacArthur Mall here in Campbelltown.

1:29.0

And in Campbelltown and this mall is only just a couple of kilometers away from where I'm sitting right now so

1:33.8

I'm not very well and what happened was Mickey turned up one day like a lot of birds

1:38.6

do at this mall because there's a big open mall they get in through the sliding doors and they tend to stay for a little bit that they leave.

1:45.4

But the problem was Mickey came in at an end that actually had a bakery and so as what happened and I guess as any good loving creature would do is it smelled the sweet food and you know it down some scraps.

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