PET BIRD AWOL, AGAIN; OWNERS' LIFE OFF-KEY WITHOUT COCKATIEL.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer He was 10 months old when he first flew the coop COOP See Banks for Cooperatives (COOP). , and now six years later, Sunshine the pet cockatiel cockatiel Crested, small, gray Australian parrot (Nymphicus hollandicus). It has a yellow head, red ear patches, and a heavy beak used to crack nuts. The cockatiel is in the same family (Cacatuidae) as the larger cockatoo. About 13 in. from Woodland Hills has flown away again. Sunshine, known for his extraordinary singing abilities and whose repertoire includes the ``1812 Overture'' and a tune from ``Bridge on the River Kwai River Kwai may refer to either of two rivers in western Thailand, namely:
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. frightened him away. ``I guess he went to join another orchestra,'' said Shelly Schneider, whose 16-year-old daughter, Sarah, owns Sunshine. At about noon, the Schneiders were in their back yard moving a barbecue grill when it fell over, startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. Sunshine, who had been taken out of his cage. In a flash, the yellow cockatiel was in a neighbor's tree. ``The second I saw my bird fly away I just went hysterical and I ran around the block whistling for him,'' said Sarah. Despite efforts to get Sunshine down with a pole and two hours spent whistling at him, he refused to come down and in fact climbed higher into the tree, said Schneider. ``Finally my daughter and I came back into our yard because we had a clear view of him and he took off out of the tree and swooshed toward us and then kept right on going into the sunset,'' said Schneider. The first time Sunshine escaped was in 1991 when a bird sitter was watching him for the weekend. A West Hills couple found the bird six miles from his home and returned him to the Schneiders after seeing an ad in the Daily News. Ironically, after that incident the Schneiders had kept his wings carefully clipped, but just recently had let the wings grow back. Sunshine, who has orange patches on his cheeks, has a penchant for blondes, comes to people readily and replies to wolf whistles wolf whistle n. A typically two-note whistle made as an often unsolicited expression of sexual attention. wolf whistle v. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Schneider, who spent Saturday afternoon tacking up fliers around her neighborhood. |
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