Bird related news stories

[blueroseaviary]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1153759.htm It?s an ex-parrot, say stunned Kiwis

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...?oneclick=true Kakapo doing a dodo

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...&article=23241
Commissary cashier owns about 300 feathered friends

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainm...4630234660.xml
THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL by Mark Bittner (Seven Stories Press, $21.95, 225 pages) In 1974, Bittner's home was a broken-down van parked in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. The Vancouver native lived hand-to-mouth, taking odd jobs over the years, and in the early '90s had a housecleaning job where he first saw the wild parrots in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. He observed them, fed them and named them. Devoting so much time to the parrots, Bittner became somewhat of a tourist attraction with crowds gathering to watch him with the birds. Bittner lived alone until a documentary filmmaker arrived to capture his story. It's a charming one, complete with Bittner's Cast of Characters: photos and descriptions of the parrots of Telegraph Hill. Bittner shows slides and discusses his book, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Annie Bloom's Books, 7834 S.W. Capitol Highway.

http://gocanada.about.com/cs/pets/l/aa040203b.htm Jet-Set Pets Entering Canada

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...atures/2671597 Costa Rica is a birder's paradise

http://www.milforddailynews.com/loca...rticleid=51560 Bird turns out to be a stranger: Parrot isn't the African Gray owned by Framingham woman

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...5E1702,00.html Man jailed for egg smuggling

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/lo...rticleid=72733 Meet the parrots: Woman returns lost bird and finds her own


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...alparrots.html Feral Parrot Population Soars in U.K., Study Says

http://www.pe.com/localnews/desertpa...t08.a22b6.html For avians, TLC

http://www.zwire.com/news/newsstory.cfm?newsid=12253575&title=%3CP%3EThey're %20just%20winging%20it&BRD=1197&PAG=461&CATNAME=To p%20Stories&CATEGORYID=410 They're just winging it

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technol...557261,00.html Turkey vaccine to fight disease

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...atures/2678907 Lady friend's table manners strictly for the birds

http://www.detnews.com/2004/macomb/0...c05-212065.htm Osprey chicks thrive in a lakeside condo

http://cities.expressindia.com/fulls...p?newsid=91355 The peacock is safe here; thank 3,000 villagers & an NGO

http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=2035473 4 Day Jail Term for Teen Who Mowed Down Ducks

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow?msid=776762 Peta serves notice to Hutch for parakeet ad

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-break...5249-7265r.htm Songbirds sleepless during migration

http://portaugusta.yourguide.com.au/...970&y=2004&m=7 PORT AUGUSTA HOMING CLUB

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/mo...ld/9146540.htm Southern California developer seeks permit to kill condors

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0714/p14s02-trgn.html 100 years ago, this garden was a hole in the ground

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/506009/ UW STUDY: MIGRATING BIRDS OFFER INSIGHT INTO SLEEP

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/...538488-ap.html The pelicans are gone - and no one knows why.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5427094 Officials Issue Explanation For Sick, Dying Sea Birds

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...albatross.html Model Jerry Hall's Albatross Wins the Big Bird Race

http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=4710 Actor Condemns Abuses of Animals Raised and Killed for Fast-Food Chain

http://www.marionstar.com/news/stori...ws/837608.html Restoring the big birds Wildlife workers risk limb to band ospreys

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science...nt.ducks.reut/ U.S. duck population drops by 11 percent

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=801502004 Mystery illness kills swans at beauty spot

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...9141706.htm?1c Sanctuaries for animals are setting people free

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...gnetism13.html Earth's magnetic field is collapsing, scientists say
Change will wreak havoc -- but not for about 2,000 years

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...nes-california Sick Birds Washing Ashore Puzzle Avian Experts
Tests are being made in San Diego on California brown pelicans that have been found weak and apparently starving.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...on_x.htmBattle brewing over sage grouse protection

[kvnband]

some of these are good :-)
I like the one about the guy with 300 birds....good story

[LtlWngdAngl]

I just got back from San Fransisco, and I wanted to go to Telegraph Hill SOOOO... bad! But...I couldn't get anyone else in my group to go :(
In hind-sight I should've just ditched out on a day and gone by myself...live and learn I guess.
I did just buy the book though...can't wait to get to actually start reading it!

[TooLover]

Jill,
As always, thanks so much for sharing these with us.