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white cockatoo

noun

  1. another name for sulphur-crested cockatoo

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The modest back house has been home not just to Ruiz but her husband and son, the couple’s four dogs and two tropical birds — Ludina the macaw and Sofia, a white cockatoo.

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According to a 2019 study performed on a white cockatoo named Snowball who had been taped dancing to the song "Everybody," the parrot showed a similar amount of intelligence and creativity when dancing to the songs "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Another One Bites The Dust."

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Sometimes, he would be accompanied by a white cockatoo, Fred, who was his sidekick on “Baretta,” which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978.

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The artist Joseph Cornell once requested a picture of a street urchin with a white cockatoo.

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The focal point is a white cockatoo inside the vessel near the apex of the composition, sure to be asphyxiated as a demonstration of the absence of air in a vacuum.

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