Camping cockatoo: New push to lift bird ban at campsites

Tom Wharton, of Warwick, R.I., talks to his 21-year-old pet cockatoo named “Tootsie” at his Warwick home. Wharton and Tootsie were kicked out of two campsites in Rhode Island following complaints about the feathered companion.
AP Photo/Steven Senne, File

Tom Wharton, of Warwick, R.I., talks to his 21-year-old pet cockatoo named “Tootsie” at his Warwick home. Wharton and Tootsie were kicked out of two campsites in Rhode Island following complaints about the feathered companion.

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