A cockatoo named Cookie uses a smart card to tap the tram – Henry’s Club

a clever cockatoo traveled Sydneysiders On public transport on the way to the casino and also paid its fare.

A yellow-headed cockatoo named Cookie joins passengers on a tram from Central Station to Star Casino on Sunday night.

Passengers watched as the native bird sat on the handle of the tram with one of its paws and played with the Opal card – the smart card used to pay for travel on public transport – with the other.

Cookie delights passengers with a yellow cockatoo on a tram in Sydney on Sunday night (pictured)

As the bird plays with a card in its mouth and then drops it on the floor, TikTok users were impressed by the cockatoo’s etiquette.

One commented: ‘Cookie the coolest’.

‘As Cookie dropped the opal card, I said: Sorry, you dropped it. Then, put it back in your mouth,’ commented another.

In another video shared with Cookie’s 10,000 followers, the bird is seen holding an opal card on its beak on its owner’s arm.

One viewer joked: ‘Well the NSW PTC can’t come on that!! He tapped it!’, referring to the state’s practice of a passenger checking that his fare had been paid.

The squeak of the sulphur-crested cockatoo can be heard in many parts of eastern and northern Australia.

Flocks of hundreds of snow-white birds with pale-yellow crests can be a spectacular sight when viewed from afar, but their calls can be deafening up close.

Cockatoos usually spend most of their time in flocks, grazing together on the ground, or hanging out together in trees.

These birds are known to be highly intelligent and are often hand-raised by humans from the age of three weeks – making them ideal pets.

They have the learning abilities of a one or two year old human child and are often taught to speak words and phrases.