He’s searching for signs of Major Mitchell’s cockatoo, a bird pioneering ornithologist John Gould once described as “the most beautiful parrot in the world”. Although widely distributed across arid ...

Cookie the Cockatoo has been working non-stop since 1934, so excuse him for being cranky. The 76-year-old Major Mitchell’s cockatoo is the oldest resident at the Brookfield Zoo, part of the ...

The Major’s Mitchell cockatoo named Cookie, will be celebrating his 79th birthday with an annual public appearance at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the zoo’s Reptiles and Birds exhibit, zoo officials ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Cookie, an 83-year-old cockatoo at Brookfield Zoo, died over the weekend, according to the Chicago Zoological Society. A Major Mitchell's cockatoo, Cookie had been at the ...

A Major Mitchell cockatoo, thought to be the oldest bird of its kind in captivity, has died at a US zoo. He had lived at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo since he was one year old. 'Oldest' pink cockatoo ...

Major Mitchell's cockatoos are particular about their tree hollows. Credit: Nick Talbot ''The hollow has to be about half a metre deep; they don't like it any deeper … and they also don't seem ...

Unlike other species of cockatoo, such as the endangered major mitchell cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoos have a natural tendency to fly over wide open spaces and therefore adapt and migrate far ...

Key points. The Major Mitchell’s pink cockatoo is among the Australian birds that have been added to the nationally threatened species list. The diamond firetail and south-eastern hooded robins ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Warwick. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Toowoomba-based dealer reached up to the highest shelf of his stall and pulled down a Major Mitchell ...