A few years ago, Australian scientist Richard Major took a video of a cockatoo in Sydney opening a closed trash bin lid with its beak and foot to access the gold mine of leftover food inside.

Some even used a mix of the two to crack open the lid. Male cockies are bin-opening masters. Next, the team took a closer look at which cockatoos were prying open household bins.

A few curious cockatoos learned how to open residential waste bins in Australia, and now other birds have started copying them, with incidences of bin-looting spreading across eastern Australia in ...