Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 8 | Strange Bird Lives Six Score Years |

Type	issue
Date	1913-08-31
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Strange Bird Lives Six Score Years
Type	article
Date	1913-08-31
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	8
OCR Text	Show STRANGE BIRD LIVES SIX SCORE YEARS Famous Australian Cockatoo Outlives by Year Its Aged Owner. Special Cable to Tho Trlbun. SYDNEfT, Australia, Aug. 30. One bf the minor curiosities of Australia is a cockatoo whose age Is estlmatod at 121 years. Its present owner has had It -for twenty-six years, and Its former owner, a sea captain, had It for seventy-eight years. The captain used, to say the bird was seventeen years old when it camo Into his possession. The bird has an upper beak nearly six inches Ions, curving towards the chest. The beak, which grows about an inch every year, has to bo broken off when It sets too long.
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