Saturday, December 29, 2007

Bird that lives the longest.....

The British record is 68 years in the case of a female European eagle-owl which was still alive in 1899. Other records regarded as probably reliable include 73 years (1818-1891) for a Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, 72 years (1797-1869) for an African Grey Parrot, 70 years (1770-1840) for a Mute Swan and 69 years for a raven. In 1972, a southern Ostrich aged 62 years and 3 months was killed in the Ostrich Abattoir at Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa. Jimmy, a red and green Amazon Parrot owned by Bella Ludford of Liverpool, England was allegedly hatched in captivity on December 3, 1870 and lived for 104 years in his original brass cage, dying on January 5, 1975. On October 28, 1982 the death of London Zoo’s famous Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo — Cocky — was reported, after spending 57 years in the parrot house. He was already a mature bird when he was acquired by R Stevens at the turn of the century, and was probably at least 40 years of age when he was presented to the zoo in 1925.

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