yep, I knew there was a cockatoo from ‘aussie-land’ which looked similar to Winston; but was too lazy to look for it.
looks like a little artistic ‘license’ with the palm cockatoo’s cheek flash (making it his eyes) and you have it perfect.
The article also meshes a lot with what I know about the entire cockatoo/parrot/mackinaw bird family. this particularly is about the birds’ long lives.
Think about it… a male who STARTS mating at 29 years old and a female who lays her first egg at 40? That’s not exactly a sign of a short-life-span organism.
There is also lots of anecdotal records of parrots being bought by young sailors and STILL sitting on that sailor’s grandson’s shoulders (with the grandson an adult or even middle aged). We’re talking ‘triple-digit’ years, here.
Oh, that’s cleaver.
the only flaw about that bird is that he looks like he has a mouth under his beak.
Somehow, I suspect Winston has a number of redeeming qualities… that he takes extreme measures to hide.
This is what I think winston is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Cockatoo
Likes to drum and a tool user. Fun times…
yep, I knew there was a cockatoo from ‘aussie-land’ which looked similar to Winston; but was too lazy to look for it.
looks like a little artistic ‘license’ with the palm cockatoo’s cheek flash (making it his eyes) and you have it perfect.
The article also meshes a lot with what I know about the entire cockatoo/parrot/mackinaw bird family. this particularly is about the birds’ long lives.
Think about it… a male who STARTS mating at 29 years old and a female who lays her first egg at 40? That’s not exactly a sign of a short-life-span organism.
There is also lots of anecdotal records of parrots being bought by young sailors and STILL sitting on that sailor’s grandson’s shoulders (with the grandson an adult or even middle aged). We’re talking ‘triple-digit’ years, here.