Percy the cockatoo is home thanks to microchip

Percy back with his owner Charlotte Dunnill A COCKATOO is safely back home after causing a bit of a flap when he spread his wings and took off for a fortnight.

His owner, beauty salon proprietor Charlotte Dunnill, pictured, said four-year-old Percy took the flight for freedom from her home at Avon near Sopley in the New Forest a fortnight ago.

Despite his bright pink and grey plumage he seems to have avoided being attacked by avian predators and was eventually caught at Moyles Court, midway between Ringwood and Fordingbridge.

The woman who netted him, took the feathered flyer to a vet at Poulner who found the bird had been microchipped and tracked down his home where he has been reunited with his lonely cockatoo pal.