Photos: Exotic birds at the pier

Visiting college student Sara Kipin of Pittsburgh gets an affectionate peck from a cockatoo.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Alex Hurtado spritzes red parrots and white cockatoos with water to keep them cool.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Howard Kaminsky photographs Jack and Archibald Cobb as they hold two of the birds he brings from Oxnard.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Tourists walk past the tricked-out tricycle belonging to the “Bird Man of Santa Monica,” Howard Kaminsky.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Alex Hurtado gets a kiss from a parrot.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Tourist Undral Nyamosor of Mongolia doesn’t mind being part of Howard Kaminsky’s display.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Sara Kipin lets herself become a perch.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Goldie the macaw makes a new friend.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)