10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. It was only the first in a series of such cargoes.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
Department of Agriculture’s Animal Damage Control unit tried to remove them, sparking a fight with Mayor Washington’s neighbors, who also loved the parakeets, and the establishment of the Harold Washington Memorial Parrot Defense Fund. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. After he died in 1987, the U.S.
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