This is a cockatoo who belongs to a friend that I'm 'rehabing'. She keeps plucking her feathers and then digging holes in her skin.
She's on Prozac even. And has a collar, but I took the collar off because I thought she was doing better, and WHAM she was a bloody mess in no time.
~~sigh~~
I'm a failure as a bird therapist.
Oh, that's really sad. What do cockatoos taste like, I wonder ...
When they get stressed to the point that they do that to themselves there is usually no way to stop it.