61-year old cockatoo, living in dire conditions, gets rescued, adopted, and loved; starts to vocalize

November 22, 2023 • 12:45 pm

This is the feel-good post to end the pre-Thanksgiving website. Posting will be light tomorrow as I want to have a holiday, too.

Here’s the video story of an elderly (60 year old) cockatoo who had lived in dire conditions and, after his owner died, got taken into a sanctuary and rehabbed.  Fred the Cockatoo makes a great recovery, although he’s missing a wing, and becomes quite vigorous and affectionate.

Sadly, because captive cockatoos live about 50-70 years, Fred probably doesn’t have a long time left. But at least his golden years are happy ones.

6 thoughts on “61-year old cockatoo, living in dire conditions, gets rescued, adopted, and loved; starts to vocalize

  1. There is another very recent rescue cockatoo story, also very happy news as rescued cockatoo becomes calm and friendly and learns to play with cockatoo-toys. The one that isn’t Fred is Edgar.

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