Cockatoo Parrot Vintage Photos

Man looking at a cockatoo at the Tenth National Cage Bird Show.

Location: Long Beach, CA, US
Date taken: November 1958
Photographer: Ralph Crane

Fashion model Donyale Luna holding out toy for cockatoo through fence in wildlife sanctuary.

Location: Sydney, Australia
Date taken: 1967

Photographer: Unknown

Australian naturalist Edward Hallstrom with Crested Cockatoo.

Location: Papua New Guinea
Date taken: 1965

Photographer: Larry Burrows

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A young girl and boy visiting w. a man and his performing parrots and cockatoos outdoors at Coney Island.

Location: Brooklyn, NY, US
Date taken: September 19, 1884
Photographer: Wallace G. Levison

 

 Crowds watching parrots and cockatoos performing tricks on tightropes, outdoors at Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY.

Location: Brooklyn, NY, US
Date taken: September 06, 1884
Photographer: Wallace G. Levison

Man feeding the cockatoos at the Tenth National Cage Bird Show.

Location: Long Beach, CA, US
Date taken: November 1958
Photographer: Ralph Crane

Young girls looking at a cockatoo at the Tenth National Cage Bird Show.

Location: Long Beach, CA, US
Date taken: November 1958
Photographer: Ralph Crane

Woman looking at a cockatoo at the Tenth National Cage Bird Show.

Location: Long Beach, CA, US
Date taken: November 1958
Photographer: Ralph Crane

Woman looking at a cockatoo at the Tenth National Cage Bird Show.

Location: Long Beach, CA, US
Date taken: November 1958
Photographer: Ralph Crane

 

Portrait of Countess Phyllis della Faille de Leverghem in bedroom of her villa reclining on her ornately carved and tapestried bed, holding pet parrots, chihuahuas & afghan dog.

Location: Near Tangier, Morocco
Date taken: 1950
Photographer: Jack Birns


 

Cockatoos perched on a tree branch at the Brookfield Zoo.
Location: Chicago, IL, US
Date taken: 1930
Photographer: William Vandivert


photos from LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

March 1946: British statesman Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) makes some chatty new friends during a visit to the home of Colonel Frank Clarke in Miami Beach, accompanied by his wife and daughter. The parrots were brought to Clarke's home from the Parrot Jungle after Churchill expressed an interest in the creatures. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
source: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3247933/Hulton-Archive

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Camp mascots of No. 1 Camp, Tatura Internment Group, "Whacko" the sulphur crested cockatoo, and "Cobber" the dog.

Location: Australia: Victoria, Tatura

Date taken: 1943

Photographer: James Tait

http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/052601

Family and parrot in the Dutch Indies about 90 years ago.

Photographer: Unknown

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasiuduk/29294046