By Lindsey Stokes
Staff Writer
He’s loud, he’s destructive, he’s eating away at a historic property, he’s… a cockatoo, and his name is Dino.
Dino escaped from his owner’s apartment in Brookline Village back in July and since then has sought refuge in a North Brookline neighborhood, where he has taken to gnawing through siding and shrieking outside bedroom windows at dawn.
Nancy Gertner, whose Victorian home is the birthplace of Robert F. Kennedy, says Dino whose—one-word vocabulary includes the word “NO” — has been gnawing through the siding of her home causing costly damage.
Gertner has tried trapping the bird, scaring him off with loud music and spraying him with a hose but to no avail. Animal control has been equally unsuccessful in capturing Dino.
Dino the cockatoo, with his distinctive dinosaur screech, remains at large.
