Cookie the Cockatoo passed at age 83
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Birds are typically long lived animals, particularly varieties of parrot.
There was one known as both the oldest cockatoo in captivity and formerly known as the oldest living parrot.
He was a pink cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) named Cookie.
He was hatched June 30, 1933 at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
He lived at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States and exceeded the average lifespan for his species becoming one of the longest lived birds on record.
He held a listing in the Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world.
Attempts were made to introduce Cookie to a female pink cockatoo in the 1950s. The alliance failed because Cookie rejected her as "not nice to him".
He passed August 27, 2016 after a long and eventful life of recognition.