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A squawking chorus signals the arrival of the flock of Mitred Conure parrots, settling in the towering palms near the Belmont Heights and Belmont Shore sector. The flock, with an estimated population ...

A couple of weeks back, I got an e-mail from a reader suggesting a column about the Berkeley parrot flock. In trying to pull that column together, I was struck by how little I knew about these ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The wild parrots that call San Francisco home have become a given of city life, squawking their way to their favorite spots, delighting tourists. The famous flock is now about 300 ...

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle Mountain View parrots In my Dec. 30 column, Beverly West, of Mountain View, wrote about “dozens of parrots” she’d never seen ...

Audio discs in pockets inside front and back covers. What is intelligence anyway? -- Heron -- Canada geese -- Mallard ducks -- Ruby-throated hummingbirds -- Cardinal -- Budgerigar -- Zebra finch -- ...