It seems to be a behaviour they copy from each other. After rangers reported the same type of cockatoos using drinking fountains in western Sydney, Lucy Aplin at the Australian National ...

Birds in Sydney’s western suburbs have figured out how to get a sip from the fountains, even though they have access to nearby streams ...

Each night around sundown, cockatoos in western Sydney gather for a ritual: After waiting in line on a fence, they take turns at a drinking fountain, gripping the handle with their feet and ...

A team of researchers in Australia published a paper about how the population of sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney have ...

“Between (Aug. 29 and Oct. 11, 2019), we installed two motion-triggered wildlife cameras pointing from either side towards a drinking fountain where we had previously observed cockatoos drinking ...

On a hot day, a few glugs from a park drinking fountain can be a major relief — and some of Sydney’s cockatoos agree. Lucy Aplin — a cognitive ecologist at the Australian National University ...