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Cockatiel Lost for Three Years Identified With Help From TV Theme Song
UPI ^ | APRIL 13, 2022

Posted on 04/13/2022 2:24:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Pennsylvania family's pet cockatiel was identified after three years on the loose thanks to the bird's love for a classic TV theme song.

Louise Duncan said she knew the bird she found on the front porch of Christ United Methodist Church in Lancaster County was not a native species.

"I knew it was not a normal bird that comes by because it had an orange or yellow plume," Duncan told WGAL-TV.

Duncan and Pastor Roseann Goldberg-Taylor wrangled the bird into a box and contacted local animal rescue group ORCA.

ORCA posted photos of the bird on Facebook, and soon received a message from a family in Ephrata who reported their cockatiel, named Lucky, had escaped from their home three years earlier.

Libby Rannels of ORCA said rescue workers and the family compared the bird to photos of Lucky and were pretty sure of the bird's identity, but a family member suggested another test: seeing if the cockatiel would react to the theme song from The Andy Griffith Show.

"He started whistling that song, and the bird started dancing, kind of bobbing his head, so we knew then that it had to be the same bird," Rannels said.

Lucky was reunited with the family, but Rannels said the owners now live in a smaller home and determined they did not have space to properly care for the cockatiel. ORCA said in a Facebook post that Lucky will have a new permanent home as the organization's office pet.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bird; cockatiel; lucky; pennsylvania

1 posted on 04/13/2022 2:24:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Lucky was reunited with the family, but Rannels said the owners now live in a smaller home and determined they did not have space to properly care for the cockatiel. ORCA said in a Facebook post that Lucky will have a new permanent home as the organization's office pet.

Sounds like they abandoned him when they moved, and then started wondering if he was okay.

2 posted on 04/13/2022 2:27:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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Three years is a long time for a cockatiel to survive outdoors. A draft can kill them.


3 posted on 04/13/2022 2:33:34 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright coled day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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My neighbors when I was growing up had a dog that would howl and howl when that theme song came on.


4 posted on 04/13/2022 2:35:16 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Cynic!

(you may be right)


5 posted on 04/13/2022 2:37:00 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Second suis Deplorable STILL)
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Winter kills them. Not buying it.


6 posted on 04/13/2022 2:46:16 PM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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They didn‘t have room? We had a cockatiel once. In a very small two bedroom apartment. So I call a lot of bird poo.


7 posted on 04/13/2022 2:49:26 PM PDT by Mercat
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That reminds me of a news story from years ago about police from the LAPD gang unit forcing a bunch of vatos to duck walk while whistling the Andy Griffith Show theme song, lol.


8 posted on 04/13/2022 3:31:14 PM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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Thought it would have been the Baretta theme song.


9 posted on 04/13/2022 3:37:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I’ve seen lots of videos of cockatiels whistling that theme song.


10 posted on 04/13/2022 5:54:34 PM PDT by Trillian
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There’s a colony of Monk Parakeets in Connecticut. I guess a cockatiel could...


11 posted on 04/13/2022 6:02:00 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the ones trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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