What Do Cockatoos Eat? - Kylon Powell

Cockatoo is one of the beautiful species of parrots. It comes in many colors like grey, white and black. They are omnivores they like to feed on both meat and herbaceous matter, especially seeds and fruits. White cockatoos can live up to 50-60 years. Their mating season is between December and March. They are found in rainforests, scrublands, and open forests of New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. They are considered one of the most intelligent species due to their ability to make a variety of sounds and mimic human voices. They are considered as one of the most precious species and costs around $500 to $1200. Let’s have a look at their diet.

Silky Terrier Dog Breed Playing Aro...

Silky Terrier Dog Breed Playing Around

Meat and insects

Cockatoos love to eat meat, chicken, figs, worms like mealworms, beetles, sausages, fishes, grubs, insects, and grubs like spiders, ticks, crickets, mites, and locusts, etc.

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Plants, fruits, and vegetables

Cockatoos mainly eat plants, fruits, and vegetables. Cockatoos can eat yucca, okra, bananas, apples, berries like strawberries and blueberries, sweet potatoes, avocado, mangoes, guava, papaya, grapefruit, grass, grapes, kiwi, apricots, flowers, jalapenos, kale, and watermelon. Additionally, Cockatoos eat garlic, radish, raisins, rice, oranges, lychee, lemons, lettuce, edamame, pine cones, pineapples, passion fruit, tomatoes, aloe vera, wheat and they can even destroy crops and sprouts.

Nuts and seeds

Cockatoos like to eat nuts, seeds, acorns, corn, macadamia nuts, walnuts, pistachios, almonds, apple seeds, sunflower seeds, birdseed, pumpkin seeds, and peanuts, etc.

Other eatables

Cockatoos are fond of eating bread, eggs, hard-boiled and even raw eggs of chicken and other birds, etc. Cockatoos like to eat human snacks such as French fries, tortilla chips, noodles, etc. They also forage on hummus, Weetabix and oats, etc.