House OKs Animal Cruelty Bill - Fort Smith Times Record

House OKs Animal Cruelty Bill
Fort Smith Times Record, AR - Jan 29, 2009
“I know the argument’s going to be brought forth one of these days, what about my parakeet?” Ragland said. “Is it OK to be abusive to the parakeet or to

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Abandoned Parakeet Adopted by Loving Family - WIBW

Abandoned Parakeet Adopted by Loving Family
WIBW, KS - Jan 23, 2009
One of the two parakeets abandoned on K-16 highway January 5th has been adopted. Tweet and Tweeter were rescued by a passerby in below freezing weather.

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Parakeets listen well - The Citizen.com

Parakeets listen well
The Citizen.com, GA - Jan 22, 2009
With a big house, a pretty wife, five kids and a green parakeet that ate hushpuppies off his head, my dad had it all together. I thought he knew all of the

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Architectural Digest Remembers John Updike - mediabistro.com


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Architectural Digest Remembers John Updike
mediabistro.com, NY - Jan 31, 2009
Now, as an author, I climbed even to the cupola, and chased a parakeet down long halls, "channels of wood and plaster" where a crossing made "four staring

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Gary Bogue: Did getting hen pecked improve a parakeet relationship? - Inside Bay Area

Gary Bogue: Did getting hen pecked improve a parakeet relationship?
Inside Bay Area, CA - Jan 18, 2009
By Gary Bogue From the minute they moved in together they completely ignored one another. Much to my disappointment, they stayed perches apart.

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Michael Temchine for The New York Times - New York Times

Michael Temchine for The New York Times
New York Times, United States - Jan 26, 2009
but then tried again. “The strangling parakeet?” “It’s sexy and intellectual,” she said, before adding the classic Washington addendum: “Intellectual is sexy.”

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Wild Neighbors: Parrots in Berkeley: The Readers Respond - Berkeley Daily Planet

Wild Neighbors: Parrots in Berkeley: The Readers Respond
Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - Jan 21, 2009
By Joe Eaton Last week’s column, about Berkeley’s flock of parrots (or, depending on the source, parakeets or conures) drew a gratifying response.

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Multinational perspectives - Hindu


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Multinational perspectives
Hindu, India - Jan 31, 2009
Ha Jin’s “A Composer and His Parakeets” demonstrates how the love of a pet parakeet can release subdued emotions. Michael Faber’s “Bye Bye Natalia” is about

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Wild Neighbors: In Search of the Wild Parrots of Berkeley - Berkeley Daily Planet

Wild Neighbors: In Search of the Wild Parrots of Berkeley
Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - Jan 14, 2009
And I’m reasonably sure that their species is Aratinga mitrata, the bird known to ornithologists and birders as the mitred parakeet and to aviculturists as

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For photographer Julie Blackmon, home is where the art is - Kansas City Star

For photographer Julie Blackmon, home is where the art is
Kansas City Star, MO - Jan 31, 2009
Does the sixth broken egg belong to the parakeet perched at photo’s edge, or to the black-and-white cat, or the redheaded doll sprawled in the lower corner

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