Bleu did a couple of victory laps in the garage and then she was gone. A month later a stranger 500 kilometres north had caught a blue parrot.
A grounded juvenile bald eagle near Corbin, a trooper who drove it to a raptor refuge in Somerset, and the thirty-one days between rescue and release.
The Kleins were asleep in their Lebanon home when the bird in the cage started hollering a word Barbara says she had never once heard him use.
Loose in Winnipeg since October, a green budgie survived by living with house sparrows. What he learned from them made him hard to bring home.
A psychologist built a parrot sanctuary on the West Los Angeles VA campus. What the birds did for the veterans who care for them surprised her.
Police, firefighters and a wildlife biologist stood under the tree. Reaching the tangled osprey took equipment none of them had brought with them.
Poppy swore and tore at the wallpaper. The bird handed back to Freda Ireland four weeks later sang Twinkle Twinkle, and someone 70km away was watching.
Alameda police could not reach a pelican snarled in fishing line and hooks. One of the boys watching from the dock went into the water after it.
Harri had been gone eleven days when a captain three days out of Australia noticed a pink and grey bird sunning itself on deck. Her family had given up.
Boo had seen only shadows for about ten years. A veterinary team in Raleigh gave the 40-year-old cockatoo his sight back, and a camera was running.