Second chance: Seeing American Chestnuts again - Lynchburg News and Advance


Lynchburg News and Advance
Second chance: Seeing American Chestnuts again
Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - Sep 30, 2008
I know that I’ll never see a passenger pigeon or Carolina parakeet, but I have walked over a carpet of prickly chestnut burrs. I wish my grandfather were

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A bright-colored parakeet in Bali, Indonesia - Wall Street Journal


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A bright-colored parakeet in Bali, Indonesia
Wall Street Journal - Sep 11, 2008
Even in Delhi's city center, he says he finds species ranging from eagles to wild green parakeets. In India's more rural states, such as Arunachal Pradesh

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Neighbors of years past shared their bounty - New River Valley Current

Neighbors of years past shared their bounty
New River Valley Current, VA - Sep 27, 2008
She owned a parakeet, and that fact alone would have given the Dunlaps top ranking on my scale of the exotic. No one else of my young acquaintance kept a

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We all have peculiarities - Franklin News Post

We all have peculiarities
Franklin News Post, VA - Sep 19, 2008
Uncle Boyd had a yellow parakeet in a cage, and, boy, did he love that parakeet. He wasn't particular about much, but that little yellow bird was his pride

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Time outside instills eco-consciousness - Charleston Post Courier

Time outside instills eco-consciousness
Charleston Post Courier, SC - Sep 10, 2008
Later, the experience made me think of what it must have been like in America before we killed off the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet.

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Northeast Ohio filled with haunts and history - Hudson Hub-Times

Northeast Ohio filled with haunts and history
Hudson Hub-Times, Ohio - Sep 28, 2008
The author writes that although the majority of burials are of cats and dogs, the cemetery has also interred six horses, two monkeys, a parakeet,

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Blown Away - by Gary McMillen - BloodHorse

Blown Away - by Gary McMillen
BloodHorse, KY - Sep 9, 2008
Feathers from the parakeet begin to swirl out of the back of the truck. Just when the mattress begins to slide off, I find an opening and pass,

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Parrot enthusiasts flocking to Simcoe County group - The Barrie Examiner

Parrot enthusiasts flocking to Simcoe County group
The Barrie Examiner, Canada - Sep 27, 2008
Aside from Indie the sulphur-crested cockatoo, Pyke also has a grey parrot and an alexandrine parakeet. Brophy has two conures, an African grey parrot,

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Central Virginia’s Pets: Simon the parrot’s lesson about clipped wings - Lynchburg News and Advance


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Central Virginia’s Pets: Simon the parrot’s lesson about clipped wings
Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - 28 minutes ago
By Carrie J. Sidener Simon, my troublemaking little Quaker Parakeet, and I have a new roommate and while she adores the little green bird in his cage,

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Carolyn The Great - Atlantic Online

Carolyn The Great
Atlantic Online - 12 hours ago
Great writing is about exquisite detaile, "a tray of coffee and sugar" the "green mangoes," the "commerical in Spanish," telling a parakeet to shut up.

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