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All birds have the following characteristics:

  • they lay eggs
  • they have feathers
  • they are warm blooded vertebrates
  • they breathe using lungs

Cockatoos fit this criteria: therefore, they are birds.

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The kookaburra (or kingfisher) is a bird and therefore an animal.

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