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Words: Andrew McMillenProducer: Louise Starkey
Iggy Pop's cockatoo has a lust for wildlife Down Under
In one of the strangest rock 'n' roll tales you're likely to hear, an Instagram-famous cockatoo owned by American punk singer Iggy Pop is helping to save Australian native wildlife. 
Video: Instagram | Biggy Pop
Iggy's cockatoo, Biggy Pop, is the founding patron of a unique mobile hospital in northern NSW. Biggy is a Moluccan cockatoo, endemic to the South Moluccas in eastern Indonesia.
Video: Instagram | Biggy Pop
In a fundraiser to treat injured, sick and orphaned animals, Biggy Pop is featured in artwork on limited-edition merchandise created by conservation charity Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital, including a craft beer named the Biggy Pop Hop.
Video: Instagram | Biggy Pop
An Instagram account in his name has more than 108,000 followers, thanks to a series of bizarrely entertaining clips with the often shirtless rocker at his home in Miami, Florida, grooving along to all sorts of music together.
Video: Instagram | Biggy Pop
Australian rock singer-songwriter Tex Perkins, who first performed with Iggy Pop at the 1993 Big Day Out tour, is also an ambassador for the mobile Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital.
He said the fundraising initiative with its feathered founding patron was an easy fit. "I’m happy to be Iggy and Biggy’s man on the ground, so to speak," Perkins said.
Biggy Pop, presumably, is at home in Miami, grateful to have been saved by a kind, animal-loving rock ‘n’ roller from a roadside vendor’s cage in Florida about 14 years ago.
Video: Instagram | Biggy Pop
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Video: Instagram | Biggy Pop

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