Cockatoo Cages

Somewhere between the pet store clerk who swears a 32-inch cage is “plenty” and the rescue volunteer who insists nothing under a walk-in closet will do, most new cockatoo owners just freeze up. Cockatoo cage minimum size sounds like it should have one tidy answer. It doesn’t — not exactly — but it does have … Read more

A cockatoo doesn’t live in a cage so much as it rules one. Give a Moluccan or an Umbrella cockatoo an undersized box with a lock on the door and you’ll get a bird that screams at 6 a.m., plucks its own chest bare, and eyes that flimsy latch like a puzzle it hasn’t solved … Read more