Screeching squawks and melodic sounds are the usual sounds of cockatoos. It is a known fact that male cockatoos are more talkative than female cockatoos. The males use their sound skills during the mating process. If there are many males trying to win a hen, the best singer approaches the hen until the best singer is found to be the female cockatoo winner.

By having cockatoos at a young age, they will tend to mimic human sounds better than their own cockatoo sounds. If you make a singing pattern with your pet cockatoo, you can be a cockatoo whisperer.

One way a female cockatoo can carry on a conversation with a human or a bird is to mimic what you will say to them through their sounds. On the other hand, a male cockatoo would change his pitch and spacing depending on what he wants to converse with you to make some points.

Male cockatoos and female cockatoos usually fight over who can make the sweetest cockatoo sounds to be the winner.

Female cockatoos are considered to be more social than males, while males have a better ability to mimic and follow sounds. As early as 6 months of age, a male cockatoo can already begin to imitate sounds. One of the cockatoo sounds that your pet would already know before you bring him home would be the “wolf whistle.” When males make sounds, they usually pair it with an action of pulling back their wings to produce a heart shape. It can also make sounds by touching things like its dishes, the cage bar, toys, and other things to get a potential mate’s attention.

The soft cockatoo sounds are what the female will produce and will complement this with an action by slowly raising her tail and tilting her head when she is ready to mate.

When cockatoos make noises and sounds that are not systematically produced, this means that they are “expressing themselves”. Although cockatoos have louder voices than other birds, their voice compared to the larger parrot species is recognized as charming as their vocal range is smaller.