For generations, Indonesia’s Huaulu community hunted endangered cockatoos for a sacred ritual; now they use naturally shed feathers

• The Cidaku ceremony marks young men’s transition to adulthood and traditionally involved hunting the cockatoo for its distinctive crest feathers, which are worn in a ceremonial headdress called the puheliam.
• A new study in the Journal of Ethnobiology titled Sacred Rituals and Endangered Birds: A Biocultural Approach