Sydney's old crock of a cockie was a legend at 120 | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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- loyal to their life-long mating partners, although some do get "divorced";

Taking off ... the number of sulphur crested cockatoos around Sydney is believed to be rising.Credit:Sharon McCarthy

- as intelligent as toddlers;

- mischievous (they like divebombing cars);

- fond of timber, particularly wooden balcony rails;

- the loudest of all parrots.

His turns of phrase included one feather more and Ill fly - a threat apparently unrealised as he was almost featherless in the last 20 years of his life - and one at a time, gentlemen, please when he was harassed by other birds

Mating habits

Cockatoos pair up in their first year and are monogamous unt...