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A bird's eye view of a life in flight.

The Back Room
It had never occurred to me before, really. I've had blind spots like this my entire life, plus, I'm not really one to peek and pry into corners, or behind Employees Only doors. Everyone is entitled to places where they're not on display for my personal benefit, so why should I go where I don't belong?
By Meredith Harmon4 years ago in Petlife
An Endangered Red
Does the Scarlet Macaw know what a marvel it is? How desperate humans are to restore the populations that were ravaged by those greedy and ignorant? They say the Scarlet Macaw is intelligent, but how can anyone or anything hope to grasp the disappearance of a species, a community, a family? Do they know the way they are hunted for their colors, the very same that they trusted adaptation to keep them safe with?
By Mary M4 years ago in Petlife
MISSING HENRIETTA
As I stood at the kitchen sink this morning, cleaning up breakfast dishes, I enjoyed the light breeze wafting through the window and the soft rays of sunshine warming my face. Once again the day was bright and beautiful; bringing not only warmth and sunshine but an abundance of fragrances from the multitude of wildflowers blooming in the fields nearby.
By Linda Gorsuch4 years ago in Petlife
Majestic Mia.
Im a talker and I like company but my land is being taken by the conglomerates. We're an indigenous breed heading for extinction but that doesn't seem to register with the land owners of the consumers of the human greedy.
By Dawn Earnshaw4 years ago in Petlife
A Parrot in A Poncho
One time my wife and I were at a party with some friends just before Halloween and I noticed they had all these bottles of Coronas on each of the tables with small ponchos on them for decoration. I had a hunch that one of these might be the perfect size for my Eclectus Male Parrot name Oiseau so I snagged one just for him to try on and it was a perfect fit!
By Celeste Barbier4 years ago in Petlife
when i was free
The cage was cold and hard. I look down at the bare patches of skin on my chest, red, raw, rubbed. How I longed to break free from this prison, escape back to the sky-scraping trees, green, glowing in the sun. I used to be beautiful.
By nat4 years ago in Petlife
Macaw Singing in The Dead of Night
“Ajay! How many times have I told you? If you’re not here to buy any birds then get out of my shop!” “Please sir, your birds need water! Let me help them sir!”
By Jesse Leung4 years ago in Petlife
My Feathered Colleague
Working from home for the last 18 months has been interesting to say the least. I started working from home regularly in March 2020, when COVID-19 made its appearance in Calgary, AB. It was a scary time. My 11-year-old daughter at the time didn’t leave the house for an entire 6 weeks. We lived in a 3-bedroom apartment at that time, and no kidding, she didn’t even go outside on the balcony because she was so scared to get sick.
By Patricia Krzystek4 years ago in Petlife
Blue
Blue is a one year old blue Orpington. Most people that see roosters think of the Facebook memes showing a terrified child being chased by Satan in a chicken suit with some witty caption. Most people will look at that and comment how terrible it is. “Its not funny”.
By DC Hope4 years ago in Petlife
Hawks and Chickens
"You were a hawk raised like a chicken." Said my therapist. He'd said a lot of other things too, but that was the phrase that stuck in my head. It was a story in itself. A hawk raised as a chicken. There are folk tales with that theme, and how once the hawk sees the sky she could lift her wings and fly.
By Danielle Mullineaux4 years ago in Petlife
He Killed Her Babies To Win Her Love: Did He Succeed?
This happened a couple of years ago when I was still in school. I lived in a city in India in an old-style house with big and airy rooms with vents near the ceilings for air and light. These vents had small gaps in between from where small birds could come inside the room.
By Richa Khare4 years ago in Petlife
My beloved
The pets in all the great storybooks do extraordinary things like rescuing people, saving children, stopping fires, and so on. So you might be a little disappointed when I tell you the story of Fred. Just an extra ordinary bird living a normal life. There was just Fred. And there was just me.
By Lucy Starr4 years ago in Petlife