Bucky was especially funny, and quite smart. When Bucky first came to live with us, we knew very little about cockatoos. We certainly had no idea how smart they were. Bucky was very young when he was captured in the wild and imported to the United States. He had one owner before he came to live with us.
Cockatoos become very attached to their owners, even jealous.
He quickly warmed up to us though, and his new home. It took a lot of trust on both of our parts. To gain Bucky s trust, we would lay down on the floor next to his cage, and wait. Cockatoo s are very curious birds, and it did not take him long to come down and see what it was we were doing. He tentatively crawled around us, watching, until he was certain we meant him no harm.