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January 14, 2006
Save The Parrots
Another great San Francisco article, this time about the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill. I talked about the birds back in April and got a chance to see them up close in December when walking down the Greenwich steps on Telegraph Hill.
Local residents, including Mark Bittner, the man who's taken care of the birds for more than ten years, have been trying to save the trees the birds live in.
Cecilia M. Vega writes "As early as next week, an agreement could be reached in a highly publicized, long-running feud between a property owner who wants to chop down the cluster of trees he sees as a liability and parrot lovers so intent on saving them that they have thrown themselves in front of buzzing chain saws.
'We want to save those trees,' said Mark Bittner, who wrote the best-selling book about the colorful birds and co-starred with them in a popular documentary film. The parrots 'are my friends, and if I didn't help them, it would be absurd.'"
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Posted by insideoutmag at January 14, 2006 10:57 AM
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