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January 14, 2008

No. 6: Dancing bird

If you didn't catch him on Late Night With David Letterman, fear not. This Medium Sulphur Crested Eleanora Cockatoo -- "Snowball" to his countless friends and fans -- is easily found on the Internet, where he's one of the most viewed animals of all time.

He's number six on our list of the seven best Internet animal videos of 2007.

Snowball was first moved to dance by the music of Backstreet Boys (and we'll try not to hold that against him), but you can now find him stepping out to various tunes, including "Another One Bites the Dust" (and we'll try not to hold that against him, either.)

Snowball arrived at Bird Lovers Only Rescue -- a donation-based, not-for-profit bird rescue in northwest Indiana, in August of last year. For more information on the organization, and more videos of Snowball dancing, you can visit its web site: birdloversonly.org or its blog.

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I'm saving my vote in case the "Oh, Don Piano" cat makes it to the Top Seven. :)

Posted by: Anne | January 14, 2008 6:02 PM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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