Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 27 (UPI) -- The Ohio owners of a missing cockatiel who created a Web site and posted 4,000 signs looking for the bird say they've found it 10 miles from home -- they think. Ed and Laurie Ward of Columbus are "95 to 98 percent sure" the bird is their pet Popcorn, missing for a month, but are awaiting confirmation by Popcorn's trademark "dance" beside the family's microwave oven, The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday. Advertisement "Honest to God, I look him in the eyes and he just looks like he's our bird," Ed Ward said. With untrimmed wings the birds are considered strong fliers, and they can feed on almost anything, the newspaper said. The Wards were reunited with the bird when Janine Gostel and her boyfriend saw the bird in their back yard and called a phone number in a classified newspaper ad about the missing bird. Ed Ward gave Gostel a reward check for $200 with the condition that if the bird doesn't exhibited Popcorn's signature microwave "dance" behavior he may return it to Gostel. The Wards don't need another bird that's not Popcorn, they say, as they're already keeping five other cockatiels found by bird rescuers. Advertisement "I'm trying to do the right thing," Ward said. "This is a little emotional for us, I've been looking for Popcorn for weeks now," he said.
