ALEXANDRIA, VA. Raise your right wing and repeat after me ...

A man who lost a parrot said he'll know it's Loulou if she can whistle the 'Andy Griffith Show' theme song.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Alexandria man claims that a Pennsylvania woman adopted his lost parrot -- and that he could prove it if given a chance to question the bird in a court proceeding.
Loulou, an 11-year-old African gray parrot, flew out of David DeGroff's apartment on April 12 after a guest who wasn't wearing her glasses accidentally walked into the screen door leading to the balcony.
On May 11, Nina Weaver of Newburg, Pa., six miles north of Shippensburg in Cumberland County, adopted an African gray from the D.C. Animal Shelter. DeGroff, convinced the bird is Loulou, filed a lawsuit seeking an opportunity to depose the parrot. He is seeking $15,000 for pain and suffering if the bird turns out to be Loulou.
Last week, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that it was filed in the wrong court. DeGroff said he plans to refile the lawsuit against Weaver and the Humane Society, which ran the animal shelter, in D.C. Superior Court.
Vocal repertoire
According to DeGroff, Loulou's vocal repertoire includes whistling the theme song to "The Andy Griffith Show" and saying the phrase "Daddy's gotta go to work."
Immediately after Loulou left, DeGroff said, he started calling every animal agency in the area, including the D.C. Animal Shelter. He and his roommate papered their neighborhood with fliers about the missing bird.
DeGroff said that in mid-May he again called the D.C. shelter. A receptionist told him that an African gray had passed through the shelter and had recently been adopted. DeGroff used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the adoption records, which listed Weaver as the owner.
DeGroff said Weaver never answered the phone when he called, so he drove to her home. There was no answer when he knocked on the front door, but DeGroff said he saw a bird through the window. He said he felt a connection.
"She seemed like she tried to communicate with me," DeGroff said. "She seemed to recognize me."
But DeGroff was unable to speak with the bird and thus was unable to determine if it could whistle the Andy Griffith tune. Frustrated, he returned home.
The birds are all virtually identical, with a gray body and red tail, making it exceedingly difficult to tell one African gray from another, but DeGroff says Loulou does have one distinct characteristic: a pink feather under the left wingpit.
Sue Morrow, a Pennsylvania parrot breeder who examined the bird at Weaver's behest, found no such feather. She acknowledged that the feather could have been plucked but said there's another reason she doesn't think the bird is Loulou. She said one of the first things a talking bird learns is its own name, and the only things she heard Weaver's bird say were "Toby" and "Shut up, Toby."
DeGroff said that Loulou never said her name. Nor did she say "Toby."
Weaver declined to speak with a Washington Post reporter who visited her house.
"We have no comment," she said. "We're not going to fight this in the paper."