There’s a ‘troubled’ cockatoo terrorizing residents in Brookline
The bird has gnawed a hole in Robert F. Kennedy’s birthplace.
A bird with a one-word vocabulary (“No’’) and affinity for corn has made himself cozy in a historic neigbhorhood in Brookline, where he’s been gnawing through siding and shrieking outside bedroom windows at dawn.
The cockatoo, named Dino, flew away from owner Shawna Payne’s Brookline apartment in July and has been terrorizing residents in the Graffam-McKay Local Historic District ever since, reports The Boston Globe.
“He’s a troubled bird,’’ Darrell Williams, Payne’s uncle, told the Globe.
Nancy Gertner, whose Victorian home is the birthplace of Robert F. Kennedy, has tried trapping the bird in an open cage filled with food, blaring rock music to scare him off, and spraying him with a hose, but to no avail. Dino has gnawed a hole in her siding.
“We called the animal control people in Brookline, we called the MSPCA — no one will trap the bird,’’ Gertner told the Globe.
But not all residents are annoyed by the bird. A resident on Naples Road has been feeding him corn, which he eats with one leg.
Read the full story in the Globe.
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