British war leader Winston Churchill's foul-mouthed 104-year-old parrot refused to "surrender" to newshounds on Monday after a British newspaper tracked the bird down and discovered it was still alive. "They've been trying to get him to talk all day, but he's not saying much," Sylvia Martin, who manages Heathfield Nurseries where parrot Charlie has lived for the past 12 years, said. Charlie, who kept Churchill company during World War Two, was famous for occasionally squawking four letter obscenities about Hitler. Ms Martin told Reuters the bird has mellowed. "He doesn't say very much anymore, usually just hello and goodbye, but he does get so excited about music and dances to it. He's very fit," she said. Charlie, invariably referred to as "he", despite being female, is now owned by Peter Oram, the garden centre's owner. Mr Oram's father-in-law sold Churchill the bird and was asked to take it back after the prime minister died in 1965. Steve Nichols, the founder of Britain's National Parrot Sanctuary, said although parrots did not often live longer than 40 in the wild, some had lived to up to 110.
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