Camera-Shy MOLUCCAN COCKATOO MOLLY & our NOISY LORIKEET

Molly usually 'freezes' and turns into a Pillar when she sees the camcorder, so I was happy to catch her off guard for a few seconds while she was playing with some paper on top of NANA's cage. As you can see, I was QUICKLY detected and she turned her head towards me to eye that strange contraption in my hand...and FROZE......End of Video...

The "SIREN" you hear in the background is little RAINBOW LORY TWILLIE objecting to not being the center of attention.
You can now SEE him splishing and splashing thru his bath bowl in his own video.

To see what Molly does OFF CAMERA, watch "OUR COCKATOO ACTING CRAZY"...it may be a while before I will be able to capture MOLLY doing THAT on camera...

MOLLY's SAD BACKGROUND: Molly is a wild-caught Moluccan Cockatoo whom we ransomed from a pet store in 1998 for $500 where she was lingering in abject terror. We have NO clue as to her age. All we DO know is that she went thru HELL at the hands of man...as a consequence, she trusts NOBODY except me...

RECORDING METHOD/DATE:
Flip Video Ultra Camcorder - 3/25/2008

To find out more about COCKATOOS and WHY so many of them wind up in RESCUES, please visit: http://www.mytoos.com/ AND http://www.parrotsperch.com/rescue2.htm

So PLEASE...'DON'T BUY, DON'T BREED, A-D-O-P-T
A PARROT IN NEED!'

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Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Wild
• Caught
• Shy
• Screaming
• Moluccan
• Cockatoo
• Chattering
• Lory
• Lorikeet
• Parrot
• Bird
• Adoption
• Rescue
• Flip
• Video
• Ultra

[weechster]

I have an african grey who's camera shy too. I bought a flip camcorder hoping he would think it's a phone. Needless to say he's smart enough to know it wasn't a mobile!

[wildlifeguardian]

He he...we can't fool our feathered friends! Molly is getting less camera shy as you can see in my last 2 videos. I think she was too upset to care about that little contraption in my hand in her angry 'screaming' video!

[lynnkeets]

it's so cool how parrots can stay on one foot and use the other for eatingplaying etc.etc.etc.

[wildlifeguardian]

Their dexterity is truly amazing! Molly can pick up ONE KERNEL of corn with those big feet! :>)

[pattyinla]

So wonderful that Molly is in a loving environment now where she can thrive. That lory sure sounds like a car alarm! 8-)

[wildlifeguardian]

Actually, it's the Brinks Alarm System...LOL...he learned that from his big red 'cousin,' a Chattering Lory (our first parrot), who flew to the Rainbow Bridge way too soon in 2005 at the tender age of 10...

[wowzers121]

Hah, that's such a classic look she shoots the camera once she realizes it's there...

[trowuttatwo]

oh lovely that you did catch her undetected for a few seconds, but birds sure know when you put the camera on them. LOL - and it made me miss my Rainbow Lory to hear yours. I will never stop missing her. love and light - Susan in Tasmania - saving all we can!

[Amy4Birds]

I worry about that, too, with mine.

[wildlifeguardian]

I just keep praying that I will be able to take care of her for the rest of her life...she is probably only 25-35 years old...