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Lestv said:Robin - I rememberseeing a large number of cockatoos when I have visited Oz. Never thought of them as garden pests, since they are so exotic to the Yanks, but they could do a fair amount of damage I am guessing. Maybe not as much as Rob's turkeys but they are sizable birds.

They are a major pest if you have an orchard. They (along with rosellas and galahs - although technically a galah is just another type of cockatoo, I think most people just think of the white or occasionally black ones as cockatoos) love to eat almonds off the trees. Never seen them damage the garden flowers, though.