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From: bdoern@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Betty Lou Doern)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Help...lost cockatiel...
Message-ID: <27170003@hpldsla.sid.hp.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 20:35:58 GMT
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Two of our cockatiels got out at different times.  One flew 5 miles
north, the other flew about 7 miles south.  Each was gone for 5 days.

We got the first one back because she landed on someone and stayed on
him as he walked in the house.  They saw our ad in the newpaper and
called us (enticed I think by the keyword REWARD!).  She was hungry,
but other than that looked fine.  That was at a very hot and windy
time of year (in Modesto).

The second one we got back because he started hanging out in someone's
yard.  It was a rural setting with a water trough for a horse and also
probably spare grain from the horse's food.  We took the bird's mate
in the cage out to the lost bird and after an hour or so he landed on
the cage and allowed us to put him inside.  He seemed to be in good
health.

So my advice is - Advertise, in the paper and with posters.  Keep it
up for several weeks at least.  I don't know what our birds ate, but
they must have found something!

Good luck.

Betty Lou Doern