1 Whether it's a child, puppy, cockatiel, or brand, nurturing women will protect their own.

2 Supply your cockatiel with plenty of vitamin-A rich fruit and vegetables, and incorporate pellets into their diet.

3 A 72-year-old man has credited his pet cockatiel with saving his life after raising the alarm by making a "heck of a noise" when he had a stroke.

4 My own hen cockatiel Pearl, who characteristically used only one note most of the time, whistled a male cockatiel song as she masturbated, in the corner of her cage.

5 He has an orange galah-style crest, dusty orange chest, deep orange cheek patches, with wings more like a cockatiel in colour but the shape of a galah's wings.

6 Joseph Forshaw, the world renowned parrot expert and author of the classic Australian Parrots book, said he had never heard of a galah crossing with a cockatiel anywhere in the world.