With its signature colorful crest, the Major Mitchell’s cockatoo is considered the most beautiful of all cockatoos ... at the Campbelltown Forest of Wild Birds in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture.

In Japan, ‘cute’ is a big deal ... that didn’t mean the birds would be easy to film. Rei had warned us: “The most difficult thing about filming them is to be at the right sap-cicle ...