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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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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. But I digress. has gained a solid foothold in the scientific community.

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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? Though the poem is called “The Raven&# and the bird’s somber pronunciations are often what is most remembered about it, the poem is not really about a bird.

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