NBC Chicago

Cookie the Cockatoo Is Retiring

Cookie the Cockatoo has been working non-stop since 1934, so excuse him for being cranky. The 76-year-old Major Mitchell’s cockatoo is the oldest resident at the Brookfield Zoo, part of the original ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

OFFBEAT: Brookfield Zoo's famed cockatoo Cookie now retired and reclusive

I love the way Sondra Katzen, media relations manager for the Chicago Zoological Society and Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, crafted a special media announcement she sent out last week. "As people get older ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Cookie the Cockatoo turns 78 years old

Cookie the Cockatoo is 78. He was just 1 year old when he arrived at the zoo from Australia. Cookie is what's called a Major Mitchell cockatoo. He may be the oldest living one in a zoo setting. Cookie ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Cockatoo named 'Cookie', 1 of oldest such birds, dies at 83

CHICAGO (AP) — An 83-year-old cockatoo named "Cookie" and a popular feature at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo going back to the 1930s has died. The Chicago Zoological Society operates the zoo and it ...