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RACINE — After a nearly three-week adventure, the Racine Zoo’s missing cockatiel has returned home.

The bird named Cherub had been missing from the zoo since Aug. 30 and, in Wednesday’s Journal Times, the zoo put out a plea asking for help locating the bird.

Later that morning, a man who read the paper showed up at the Racine Zoo, 2131 N. Main St., with Cherub, said Theresa Donarski, the zoo’s curator of conservation and animal care.

Cherub is doing well, Donarski said, “eating and drinking and flying around.”

The man, who didn’t want to be named, apparently found the bird Sept. 2 near St. Catherine’s High School, 1200 Park Ave., she said.

He didn’t know where the bird came from, she said, and he kept him until he saw that the bird escaped from the zoo.

Then once the man saw his name, he started calling him that and the bird responded by whistling, she said.

Someone else had reported seeing a similar bird over this past weekend, she said, so she thinks there must be some other pet bird missing as well.