Introduction

Onion is a truly majestic and beautiful Umbrella Cockatoo with a wonderful personality. She is a stunning, fully feathered girl with bright eyes and a presence that is impossible to ignore.

Onion is a very social bird who loves being part of family life. She enjoys being around her humans, investigating what everyone os doing and making sure she is never left out of the action. She os affectionate, cuddly and particularly loves relaxing on the safa with her humans, snuggled underneath a blanket.

She has a big personality and is certainly not a bird who will sit quietly in the background. Onion likes to be involved, heard and included!

History/Background

Onion is very people orientated cockatoo who enjoys human comapany and attention. She is friendly with most people and can be extremely affectionate when she is comfortable.

Onion loves to investigate everything around her and wants to know exactly what her humans are doing. Being in the middle of family life is very important to her, and she thrives when she feels included.

Like many cockatoos, Onion can become overwhelmed if there is too much going on around her or if she is over stimulated. She therefore benefits from people who understand cockatoo body language and recognise when she needs some space.

She can also have the occasional peck, including a cheeky peck to the side of your head, so her interactions should always be supervised and handled with awareness of her mood and body language.

Training

• Onion is very people orientated and enjoys interacting with humans.
• She enjoys being handled and cuddled when she is comfortable and in the right mood.
• She benefits from positive interaction, patience and allowing her to choose when she wants attention.
• Her body language should be observed carefully, particularly when she becomes overwhelmed or overstimulated.
• She enjoys being involved in everyday activities and responds well to interaction and attention.
• She loves music and dancing and can become very animated when enjoying herself.

Diet

Onion’s main diet consists of johnston and Jeff Low Sunflower, supplemented with a varied selection of fresh foods. She can be very fussy around food and demandingly loud at meal times for human food.

She enjoys fresh chop, fruit, vegetables,nuts and a varied selection of suitable food.

Onion also has a very strong interest in whatever her humans are eating! She is more than happy to make her opinion known if she believes she should be included in meal times and will certainly let you know if she wants a taste of what everyone else has.

Her diet should continue to be carefully managed with appropriate foods for a cockatoo, while ensuring treats and human foods are safe and suitable. 

Enrichment

Onion is a very inquisitive and social bird who loves to be involved in everything happening around her.

She particularly enjoys:

• Spending time with her humans
• sitting on the sofa and cuddling under a blanket.
• Investigating what everyone is doing
• Being in the centre of everything!
• Music
• Dancing
• Social interaction and attention
• Exploring her environment.

It is very important though to recognise when she is becoming overwhelmed and allow her appropriate quiet time and space to decompress.

Summary

Onion is a majestic, beautiful and incredibly characterful Umbrella Cockatoo. She is full-feathered, bright eyed and absolutely stunning to look at, but it is her personality that makes her special.

She is affectionate, cuddly and very social with people she is comfortable with. She loves nothing more that being snuggled up with her human under a blanket, sitting in the middle if the family and investigating everything that is going on around her.

If you think you could offer Onion her forever home, please apply below!