Animals

Cockatoos are extremely affectionate, their feathers are very soft and they have beautiful colors!
On top of that, Cockatoos are very intelligent and inquisitive birds, and they love to show off!

A Cockatoo will make comical displays with outspread wings, head bobbing, dancing, and loud calls.

These birds are very active and curious about their environment. A happy cockatoo spends most of its waking time performing, or examining and manipulating its toys and other cage objects.
 
Limited talking ability, but most can learn to talk, very affectionate, friendly and intelligent, self destructive if neglected, may learn to scream at owners for attention. Larger cockatoos are harder to care for and require more time than smaller types. Some owners have reported their large Cockatoos do not like small children. They cannot be left and ignored, they need a lot of daily human attention and a lot of time outside of their cages. Cockatoos naturally produce a lot of feather dust or powder down from their feathers.

The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium to large bird of prey, whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia. It is typically between 51–57 cm in length with a 110 to 150 cm (1 metre to a metre and half) (48–60 inch) wingspan, making it a medium-sized raptor. There are around 40,000 breeding pairs in Britain. It is usually resident all year, except in the coldest parts of its range, and in the case of one subspecies.

In the breeding range in northern, eastern and central Europe, voles are the most important prey, and other small rodents, birds, frogs, and insects are also taken. Buzzards also feed on carrion and invertebrates, including earthworms). In the winter range in southern Africa, prey includes rodents, lizards, and insects. Most prey are captured after a descent from a perch, but this species also soars to locate potential food, and it also hovers like a kestrel.
Builds a large platform stick nest lined with smaller sticks and green foliage and usually placed in a tree, but sometimes on rock ledges or on quarry faces (Tubbs 1972, Tubbs and Tubbs 1985). Clutch size is 2-4 white eggs with brown markings. The incubation period is 28-30 days. Sometimes rather unwary near the nest.

The preferred habitat of Common Buzzards is open countryside with small areas of woodland or the edges of more densely wooded areas. With decreased persecution, they are often being found closer to populated areas, where they can scavenge waste.

Common Buzzards prey mainly on small rodents and mammals, though they will take reptiles, amphibians, large insects, invertebrates and young birds.

Common Buzzards are regularly mobbed by crows, rooks, ravens and jackdaws. Buzzards are relatively unmanoeuvrable in the air, the mobbing birds get above the buzzard & force it to the ground, occasionally a small group of larger birds can kill the buzzard, usually with their sharp beaks.

The Cardinals or Cardinalidae are seed-eating birds that are endemic to North and South America. They are typically associated with open woodland areas.

The Northern Cardinal is found in North America. The males have bright red feathers, a black face, and coral or red beaks. The females are tan and may have slightly red wings or tail feathers. They both have strong beaks, long tails, and raised crests. They grow to 7 to 9 inches tall.

The sexes usually have distinct plumages. The family is named for the red color (like that of a Catholic cardinal’s vestments) of males of the type species, the Northern Cardinal.

The male cardinal is very defensive of its territory and will fight off other males. It is even known to start a fight with its own reflection!

It is thought that the cardinal uses songs to communicate. The female and male will sing back and forth to each other.

The typical song of the Northern Cardinal starts with a series of loud, clear whistles. Cardinals will sing sharp “chips” as an alarm song as well.

The female builds the nest and tends the hatchlings for about 10 days while the male brings food.
The male then takes over the care of this first brood while the female moves on to a new nest and lays a second clutch of eggs.