PUPILS from a Tarleton Primary School had an unexpected visitor to their playground – an African grey parrot.
The children from Tarleton Community Primary are now hoping the owner of the lost bird will come forward so they can be reunited in time for Christmas.
Headteacher Angela Fleming rescued the bird from circling crows and seagulls. For more information
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THE bite of stolen sulphur-crested cockatoo Joe is much worse than his bark, warn owners Don and Joan Willshire.
And yes, their bird barks.
The 27-year-old Australian bird, who has long conversed with the family dog Ditt, was taken from the McIntyre Street home earlier this month. For detailed information please visit
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A WOMAN watched her husband of 36 years fall to his death trying to rescue a neighbour’s cockatoo from a tree in an act of kindness that turned to tragedy.
Maurice Macklan, 58, plunged 12m after the cockatoo’s elderly owner fell from the same gum tree two hours earlier and suffered spinal injuries.
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