Cockatoos tend to have a very bad reputation, and some of it is well deserved. Most of it, however, depends on if the new home can cope with the cockatoo peculiarities.
Cockatoos like to scream. Our Ducorps is quiet *for a cockatoo* but he's not quiet compared to many other birds. He likes to scream, and when he screams at his loudest, it hurts my ears if I'm in the same room. Now, he doesn't actually do it that much, and not for prolonged periods of time, so we don't perceive it as a problem at all. And luckily, neither do our neighbours! Most of his noises, apart from the loud screaming, are pretty cute, so that helps.
We've also got an African Grey, and the Ducorps can reach noise volumes that our Grey can only dream of. However, the Grey is often talking, chatting, whistling etc, so she makes noise more often, but at a lower volume, if that makes sense.
There is no guarantee that just because your Ducorps was quiet in his previous home, he'll be quiet with you. And vice versa (which was the case with ours, thankfully). There are ways of working on excessive screaming, but you need to be as sure as you can that you can tolerate the high volume, before you bring him home, because every cockatoo WILL scream at some point.
I've only met one Ducorps, ours, so I don't really know how much of his behaviours are typical Ducorps. But it seems that most of the cockatoos (the white ones at least) are very similar in behaviour. The Ducorps are fairly small, and the beak is also relatively small (which doesn't mean they can't give bad bites!), and they can't quite reach the volume of for example a Moluccan. This makes them slightly more suitable to have as pets. A lot of cockatoos (well, a lot of parrots in general) have issues from having been taken from their parents at an early age, and they grow up thinking that humans are potential mates, which can then cause issues when they reach puberty (which is an age where a lot of cockatoos are rehomed, simply because the previous home cannot cope with them anymore).
That said, our Ducorps is absolutely lovely! But you need to be able to adapt to their needs, to understand their needs, and to give them what they need in the form of entertainment, enrichment, diet, and environment.
They are curious and very very clever, and will figure things out remarkably fast. They'll be able to explore every inch of your house and if they come across something they shouldn't chew on, it's your fault only, not theirs
Don't leave things lying around, they'll find them.
How old is your Ducorps? What's his life story?
