June 06, 2007 — Filed in: Feral, Naturalized and City Parrots
10-1 vote comes despite opposition of birds’ neighbors
San Francisco’s famous flock of wild parrots will be on its own to find food, as the Board of Supervisors gave final approval Tuesday to a ban on feeding the birds in city parks.
June 06, 2007 — Filed in: Parrot News
A new parrot sanctuary aids in recovery for patients at the West L.A. veterans hospital
Los Angeles City Beat By Allison Milionis
Matthew H. Simons isn’t the kind of guy you would imagine spoon-feeding warm oatmeal to a middle-age cockatoo. The burly six-foot Desert Storm and Desert Shield veteran seems more like a big-dog guy and six months ago he would have agreed. But Simons has changed. Since being assigned to the Serenity Park Sanctuary, a non-profit parrot refuge on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Westwood, Simons has acquired a new appreciation for birds.
Simons, 33, works at the sanctuary nearly every day. It’s an essential part of his treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and related behavioral problems that have plagued him for the past decade. “I like to say that working with birds is kind of like Prozac,†he says. “You have to be gentle and calm, something that I’ve never been before.â€
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