Need to keep cockatoos out of your trash? Try bricks, sticks or shoes
Weighing down or wedging the trash bin lid closed deters the pesky parrots but they may adapt
![a sulphur-crested cockatoo on top of a trash can, pecking a brick that is weighing the lid down](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/090922_eg_cockatoo_feat.jpg?fit=1002%2C580&ssl=1)
Some people in Sydney are in a battle with birds over trash. Residents there are putting bricks on top of trash cans or wedging water bottles in their handles to deter sulphur-crested cockatoos (one shown) from breaking in.
Barbara Klump/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior