How to Use cockatoo in a Sentence

cockatoo

noun
  • That largely is gone, as is most of the home of the glossy black cockatoo.
    — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Ever wondered what the world looks like through a cockatoo's eyes?
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 7 June 2018
  • Boo, a 40-year-old cockatoo, was dealt a tough hand early in his life.
    — Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Black cockatoos sweeping across the sky.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • For instance, the cockatoos in Sydney have learned to open trash bins.
    — Daniel T. Blumstein, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The kit includes parts to build a white rabbit, a cockatoo, or a white seal, each with moving parts.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Their homes at one point housed 34 cats, a dog, two gerbils, and a cockatoo between them.
    — Longreads, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Among the most intriguing of these was a woman with a white cockatoo perched on her shoulder.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There are eight rooms lined with small cages containing chicks — African greys, macaws, and cockatoos.
    — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Shaun White, and posed for photos with an umbrella cockatoo and a sloth.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • That life is corrosion and decay, blossoms and smiles, the squawk of a cockatoo.
    — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2021
  • After constructing the rabbit, kids can take it apart and build it into a cockatoo or a seal.
    — Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The entire table was an oversized red cockatoo with a piece of glass on top, and the cockatoo held the glass.
    — Alexis E. Barton, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The handsome, snow-white cockatoo Koki hobnobbed with them all.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But four of the family’s parakeets were killed, while nine others and a cockatoo survived.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it in water.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This year, the lab reported that cockatoos can use, recognize and transport a toolset.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Video of the cockatoos using the fountain was shared by LiveScience.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
  • The original dancing cockatoo video has been viewed more than 10 million times.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • The care center has taken in 45 dogs, 2 parrots and a cockatoo from the welfare check.
    — Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Over 44 days, the team recorded nearly 14 hours of the cockatoos around the fountain.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
  • The artist Joseph Cornell once requested a picture of a street urchin with a white cockatoo.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The rabbit can move its head, legs, mouth, and ears, and the cockatoo can rotate its head 360 degrees and move its wings and tail.
    — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The three-in-one set creates a rabbit and carrot for some festive fun, and it can also be built into a cockatoo parrot or seal.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That goes for any of the more than 300 types of parrot, which includes parakeets, cockatoos, macaws and others.
    — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Then there's a fennec fox, a skunk, four prairie dogs, a ton of parrots, hornbills, toucans, cockatoos and a bunch of tortoises.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Most of the 60 species of glass squid are clear, but deep-sea cockatoo squid also have color-creating chromatophores.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2017
  • One model the team developed identifies the sound of the glossy black cockatoo, for example.
    — Rebecca Heilweil, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • So dancing in cockatoos and other parrot species seems to be much more complex and varied than previously thought.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Allen’s own bird, an umbrella cockatoo named Toodles, grabbed the side of her cage and fanned her feathers to vie for attention.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023

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