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The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

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It’s a strange experience looking up from a city street to gaze at birds native to South America; even more ironic considering humans drove the only native parrot/parakeet species, the Carolina Parakeet , to extinction. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants!

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

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How disturbing is the thought that Poe almost put the word “Nevermore&# into the mouth of a parrot? Again, Poe provides the anwer: Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation- and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness.

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