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Family’s pet parrot survives encounter with hawk

August 09, 2007 — Filed in: Parrot News

News-Journalonline.com by Anne Geggis

African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) pet parrot perched in a tree © Cityparrots.org

ORMOND BEACH - African grey parrot Bogart can talk, but he hasn’t yet said a word about an incident most of his kind never live to contemplate.

What happened between the time a hawk ripped him from a screened-in porch and when his human—the one he calls “Mom”—Elise Ewaniuk found him lying under a tree in the thick woods probably went beyond words.

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