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Lorne residents hope invention will stop cockatoos from trashing town
Key takeaways
- Some locals say the cockatoos are stunning and have a lot of character, but their patience with the birds is wearing thin.
- They've been fighting skirmishes with a large flock of increasingly intelligent sulphur-crested cockatoos that love lifting the lids of the town's wheelie bins and spreading rubbish on the ground.
- "When holiday-makers and Airbnbs, etc, leave on a Sunday, they put the bin out, overfill it, and the cockies just throw rubbish all over the road," says Allan Walls from the Lorne and District Men's Shed.
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Some locals say the cockatoos are stunning and have a lot of character, but their patience with the birds is wearing thin. (ABC News: Jonathon Kendall)
Link copied Share Share article Residents of Lorne, on Victoria's scenic Great Ocean Road, have been locked in a battle of wits for years now.
They've been fighting skirmishes with a large flock of increasingly intelligent sulphur-crested cockatoos that love lifting the lids of the town's wheelie bins and spreading rubbish on the ground.
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