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cockatoo
noun
cock·a·too
ˈkä-kə-ˌtü 
plural cockatoos
: any of various large noisy chiefly Australasian crested parrots (family Cacatuidae and especially genus Cacatua)
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This might not seem unusual to cockatoo novices, but Crowe insists that cockatoos never exhibit this kind of behavior.
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2024
Buske, who lives in Brooklyn Center, brought Noah, his Goffin’s cockatoo, in last week.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 27 June 2024
Snowball the cockatoo dances rhythmically to pop songs.
—Tove Danovich, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Crowe shared a brief video of the cockatoo community on social media in 2021.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2024
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2024
Buske, who lives in Brooklyn Center, brought Noah, his Goffin’s cockatoo, in last week.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 27 June 2024
Snowball the cockatoo dances rhythmically to pop songs.
—Tove Danovich, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Crowe shared a brief video of the cockatoo community on social media in 2021.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2024
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cockatoo
noun
cock·a·too
ˈkäk-ə-ˌtü
plural cockatoos
: any of various large noisy usually showy chiefly Australasian parrots that have a bunch of feathers on the head
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