Cockatoo
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If it's jealous, it will attack the person. Stress is more from environment. Cockatoo and other big parrot sleep early, 5-6pm, and requires quiet, empty room. If you have the cage in the living room, you need to cover it. If you have your TV on, kids or people walking around in the room during evening time, that could cause stress..
never owned one, owned a cockatiel, worst pet decision ever made. Cockatoos that I've been around have always been cool though, the lfs I go to had a pair for a long time, the big one would talk to you at the top of the cage, the little one would steal whatever was in your pocket next to the cage, no lie.
If it's a rescue you shouldn't really hope for much in regards to behavior other than high possibility that it's not going to like things and is going to love something's. If it came from a little old lady that treated it like her baby while the husband only yelled at it it'll almost certainly love women and hate men.
My mother in law had a conure that she raised. The bird was bonded to her, and bite pretty much everyone else, cuz only my mother in law socialized and interacted with him (it's a male, yet she named it Patty). When I first dated my wife, I took a few nipped, played with him, eventually he got better. Back then, 16 years ago, when I had an umbrella cockatoo, a blue/gold macaw and a blue/gold x green wing hybrid, I believe called Catalina macaw, so a bite from a conure is much less scary to compare with the bite I took from the "too"
I believe you. Some of them are quite smart. My macaw used to unlock the cage, got out, and went up their jungle gym playpen every morning, and went back in their cage every evening. They didnt close the door behind them, though, just like children
birds home, was a well tamed bird, rescue perhaps wrong word, showing no bad habbits, EI plucking, seems to like females of the house more than males, was doing the sexy whistle on the ride home and chattering. now just scoping out the house.
