I hate woodpeckers, there was one that pecked the crap out of the telephone pole (yes Malibu is above ground) out side my daughter's window at 7 am every morning.
As far as cockatoo goes, when David Blake of the Baretta TV show fame was hunted down in Hidden Hills, we were across the 101 at the Calabasas Commons having lunch, with all the police helicopters and news helicopters, we thought it was an invasion.
I have been traveling so much, I don't remember where I was, but about two weeks ago some old man had some bird on his shoulder and it chirped in my ear for an hour while in a restaurant. It was in NJ somewhere. The hostess could have put him and his bird in the corner alone. What if he brought in a possum and a coon and a ferret too.