{"id":225601,"date":"2025-10-19T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:23:10","slug":"hopeless-romantic-cockatoo-falls-in-love-with-every-duck-she-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225601\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeless Romantic Cockatoo Falls in Love With Every Duck She Meets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweet Pea the Cockatoo <\/a>is feeling emotional. She’s feeling the love. And the best way to express it? Well, it’s by going out by the pond and yelling “I love you” to every duck she sees! Mallards, Wood Ducks, Shovelers. She has no preference! She’s feeling the love, and she’s not afraid to shout it out!<\/p>\n

This is adorable. Cockatoos are just so sweet, hilarious, and are guaranteed to put a smile on your face! Just wait until you get a load of Sweet Pea.<\/p>\n

She’s the sweetest. Viewers normally immune to these kinds of videos are giving up by declaring, “Awww, that\u2019s melted my heart, and it\u2019s hard to melt.”<\/p>\n

Others shared the sentiment, “Me whenever I see duckies.”<\/p>\n

Why Sweet Pea Picks This Particular Phrase\"Shutterstock&sol;Jayceefoto\"<\/p>\n

Shutterstock&sol;Jayceefoto<\/p>\n

What’s super endearing is one of the reasons Sweet Pea picks this particular phrase, is that birds tend to repeat phrases that they hear frequently.<\/a> In other words, Sweet Pea probably hears “I love you” a lot and probably gets a positive response — and sees others get a positive response — when it’s said back. She’s figured this out because birds can also understand context pretty well.<\/p>\n

She has applied this to interactions with her own flock in order to get the kind of reaction she desires. In some cases, as in interactions with her humans, it works. In some cases, as in interactions with these ducks, it’s not so successful. They just kind of roll their little duck eyes at her and get back to doing their laps around the lake.<\/p>\n

Related: Hilarious Quaker Parrot Immediately Breaks Every House Rule Then Tells Mom Off<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s OK. There’s plenty of people that love Sweet Pea, as the 274,000 views on this video attest to. If she keeps practicing on those ducks long enough, one of them might quack a little love back. Persistence, after all, is kind of her thing.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by PetHelpful<\/a> on Oct 18, 2025, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add PetHelpful as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweet Pea the Cockatoo is feeling emotional. She’s feeling the love. And the best way to express it?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,107942,323,107941],"class_list":{"0":"post-225601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-shovelers","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wood-ducks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}