Featherless Cockatoo



Oscar, who is actually a female cockatoo, was given six months to live, but thanks to a diagnosis of a contagious beak-and-feather disease, she was spared… and that was twelve years ago! The near-naked bird with nothing more than a tuft of feathers on her head is enchanting people world-wide as she gives real meaning to beauty comes from within. She can also do a mean Mick Jagger dance too.

Video: YouTube


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Posted on April 17, 2008 at 1:01 pm by Algonkin
Category: Animal, Video Clips

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9 comments to "Featherless Cockatoo"

  • empty-minded
    April 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    I’m reminded of The Three Stooges skit involving the live bird inside of the cooked/uncooked bird. Except I’m not laughing.

  • bean
    April 17th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    There’s a family of cardinals near my house with something like that disease. They have feathers everywhere but the head, which means the black skin beneath is exposed. They look beyond creepy.

  • CheeseDuck
    April 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Its like some dead, plucked chicken with a cockatoo head.

  • munky
    April 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    That’s a really sweet story.

    And Newscaster Guy with your remark about ‘Who’s uglier? Oscar or Mick Jagger?’, the answer is - you, my friend, you are the ugliest one if all…

  • NiteWhite
    April 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    I wonder if any bird will donate some feathers to poor Oscar.

  • Christophe
    April 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Wow. Oven-ready.

  • ahw
    April 18th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Well said Munky :0)

    All the mean comments about her looking like a plucked chicken: I see your point, but rather than making me think Oscar’s gross, its making me re-think eating chicken…

  • ted
    April 20th, 2008 at 6:52 am

    If that makes you rethink eating chicken, you were never that serious about it in the first place.

    The whole Mick Jagger thing seemed a lttle forced.

  • tomtheman5
    April 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 am

    He’s pretty confident up there walking on the top of that cage.

    Especially for a bird who can’t fly to save himself from falling…


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