Do cockatoos have teeth

Cockatoos are like snails and have thousands of tiny insy teeth but are not harmless.

Seriously? No bird has teeth. They have beaks and bills. Some birds especially water based ones will have serrated edges to their bills, but these are an integral part of the bill and are in no way similar to teeth.

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Most people, even most kids, know that birds have no teeth.

Likewise, it's common knowledge that quite a few birds consume almost exclusively hard foods such as grains and seeds.

So so how do birds digest these tough morsels if they can't chew them into more edible pieces?

The answer lies in a bird's stomach-in the lower part of its stomach, to be specific, the area called the gizzard. It's here that the powerful mixing and gnashing of food that occurs in human mouths takes place in birds.