YOU SAID:
The boy is eating a cockatiel
INTO JAPANESE
少年はコカチエルを食べている
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The boy is eating cockachiel.
INTO JAPANESE
その少年はオカチエルを食べている。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The boy is eating okachiel.
INTO JAPANESE
その少年はオカチエルを食べている。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The boy is eating okachiel.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.