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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whipper with Cake Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Can we talk about cockatoos? The old cocky cockatoo island?

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Speaker 3: For some?

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Speaker 4: I know this freaks people out, this sound, but I

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Speaker 4: just I love it.

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Speaker 2: It's calming for me.

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Speaker 1: I thinks.

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Speaker 4: I think, I think regional. I think you're out in

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Speaker 4: the country and I know that they can absolutely ravage

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Speaker 4: certain trees and they go crazy and they can be

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Speaker 4: a bit of a nuisance. Actually, if you got cockies

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Speaker 4: in your area thirteen twenty four to ten, because you

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Speaker 4: can't get rid of cockies, can you?

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Speaker 1: Well? If you want to hear a cocky chat? Do

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Speaker 1: you this morning? I do think we've done cocky chat?

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Speaker 2: Well, I have? Have you ever heard a cocky singing

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Speaker 2: line or Richie?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Have a listen?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: Built into how many other songs that say hello? Isn't

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Speaker 1: it Ryan James?

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Speaker 2: Do you want to hear it again?

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Speaker 1: I hope so similar the first time?

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Speaker 5: Because hello, Hello cocky?

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Speaker 4: Can we Lionel's got to get a cocky up on

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Speaker 4: stage with him to do that?

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Speaker 5: No, he doesn't imagine a line or Richie when he

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Speaker 5: sat there and crowding one of music's masterpieces thought to

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Speaker 5: himself in thirty years time, maybe somewhat idiot on radio

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Speaker 5: will use a cocky in the chorus.

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Speaker 1: Of that song.

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Speaker 4: Well they're smarter than you think, so how is this

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Speaker 4: self accrested? Cockatoos in Sydney have worked out how to

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Speaker 4: use the bubblers at school, so they've been just this

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Speaker 4: is during the summer, they researchers set up camera traps

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Speaker 4: and recorded the birds taking turns at a drinking fountain

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Speaker 4: in western Sydney. It was at a primary school. Scientists

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Speaker 4: observed more than five hundred attempts over forty four days

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Speaker 4: and revealed that the birds were successful about.

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Speaker 2: Half of the time.

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Speaker 4: So they just knew what they were doing now watching

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Speaker 4: the kids doing it during the day.

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Speaker 2: And then the birds would go and just they would

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Speaker 2: take it in turn.

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Speaker 4: So they would line up next to the bubbler whip

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Speaker 4: and one would go up put.

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Speaker 2: His and put his claws on there and just get

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Speaker 2: a little bit of water out at his drink.

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Speaker 4: And then they would through the line. They would go

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Speaker 4: through the line and use the bubble.

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Speaker 1: Is that one you have to turn or a button

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Speaker 1: that you have to push down.

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Speaker 4: It's one of those blue ones that you sort of

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Speaker 4: have to turn right a little bit, yeah, or you

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Speaker 4: can push down. What a clever cocky it is? That

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Speaker 4: that is clever. I mean when you can't find a

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Speaker 4: sauce of water. Well, the amazing effort for.

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Speaker 5: The cockies rolling and carriage on. Hello you go cocky

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Speaker 5: infestatione you do you?

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Speaker 3: Oh, there's a heap up there and like saying, they asked,

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Speaker 3: but were we do feed them? We have got like

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Speaker 3: a bird feeder. Yeah, but they will sit on the

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Speaker 3: window sill and bang their beats on the windows.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 5: I was down the street the other day and I

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Speaker 5: don't know if this was the target of a tack,

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Speaker 5: but you know those trees that have the conkers in them,

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Speaker 5: what sort of trees are those? They were sitting up

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Speaker 5: there chewing off the conkers that were hitting my head

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Speaker 5: like a grenade. There were bombs dropping around and I

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Speaker 5: was under attack rowing.

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Speaker 6: Oh.

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Speaker 3: They chew through everything like the veranda. I think I've

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Speaker 3: replaced the hand rail without free times.

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Speaker 4: And they can go through a whole tree in around

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Speaker 4: and in around an hour. Well, yeah, it's unbelievable how

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Speaker 4: quickly they can go through a tree. Heather's given a

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Speaker 4: skill from Cherry Brook you've been dealing with them for

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Speaker 4: a while, Heather, Yeah, so morning go.

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Speaker 6: I work at the local primary school. I've been doing

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Speaker 6: it for twenty three and a half years and they're

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Speaker 6: there every single day, lots and lots of them, and

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Speaker 6: they were absolutely another pest. We actually see them lift

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Speaker 6: the lids of the rubbish spin and they just then

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Speaker 6: pick out whatever they can find and just drop it

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Speaker 6: on the ground. But one of the worst things is

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Speaker 6: the kids come out to have their lunch about help

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Speaker 6: us twelve twenty five to one, and we get many

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Speaker 6: a note down with it from a teacher saying sorry,

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Speaker 6: this child was eating his lunch and the cockies had

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Speaker 6: just come down and grabbed it and eating their lunch.

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Speaker 1: I was, Heather.

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Speaker 5: I was on holiday once when one of the kids

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Speaker 5: were younger and the cockatoo.

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Speaker 1: While we sat on the balcony eating pizza.

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Speaker 5: The cockatoo came in and picked up the entire packet

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Speaker 5: of baby wipes, the old.

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Speaker 1: Wet ones, and flew off the balcony holding it. I

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Speaker 1: was in shot, Heather.

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Speaker 6: I know, they're just an absolute pest, And of course

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Speaker 6: when it's urn break, I don't know where they go

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Speaker 6: or what they do. They've got it, or they go

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Speaker 6: somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: Ever thought about getting line or Richie?

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Speaker 1: Did the school how that to play it again?

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't, No, no, but no, they really are an

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Speaker 6: absolute nuisance. And they're very clever and very strong. But yeah,

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Speaker 6: taking the kids' lunches. The poor kids come down and

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Speaker 6: kill the bird. Took one lunch and we didn't believe

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Speaker 6: it for a while, but it happens. And they're just

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Speaker 6: they're just a nuisance.

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Speaker 1: And Heather, are they an endangered specie?

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Speaker 5: Or can you sort of get out there with her?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, some sort of song.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I wish they were, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: How I see you're fixing the problem with a couple

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Speaker 5: of nets and shutdowns.

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Speaker 2: What does the council say, Heather? You can't do anything,

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Speaker 2: can you?

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Speaker 6: Well, no, you can't. You can't put a fence up

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Speaker 6: and keep them out, can you?

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Speaker 1: You can't chat to you forever, Heather?

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Speaker 6: I love you both, to you every morning, and I

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Speaker 6: miss you when you're on holiday.

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Speaker 1: And Heather, you've always been in Cherrybrook?

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Speaker 6: Have you loved Melbourne? Born and bred up until about

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Speaker 6: thirty two years ago?

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Speaker 1: Whereabouts in Melbourne. Were you, Heather?

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Speaker 6: I was born in Raban lovely move to Noble Park

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Speaker 6: and then we moved to Wheelers Hill and then we

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Speaker 6: moved up here.

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Speaker 5: You know, Wheelers Hill is a fantastic blend of city,

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Speaker 5: city and country.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it. Wheler's Hill?

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Speaker 5: I mean, you've got sort of a city community, but

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Speaker 5: you've got to make Ridge as well.

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Speaker 1: Heather, And I just think I finally had some cockies

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Speaker 1: on me. Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 6: I didn't have cockies?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Heather? Are we still on a Heather and are

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Speaker 1: having a chat? And Heather were not?

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Speaker 2: You're not Kate Richie's mum. You're not that Heather, are you?

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Speaker 6: No? No, Darling, No, no, no?

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Speaker 1: Would you like to be Kate Richie's mum?

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Speaker 6: Look, I've got three children of my own, which you're

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Speaker 6: enough to handle at the man and I'm afraid you're

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Speaker 6: telling

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