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Article: WINGED WHISTLERS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1988
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Once upon a time there was a young woman in Dorchester who owned
a parakeet. Actually, she owned several, serially, since parakeets
tend to end up on the bottom of the cage with their little toesies
pointed at the ceiling.
The best parakeet of them all was the one that had been
taught to wolf-whistle, so that, whenever the young woman arrived
home to her bachelorette apartment, at least somebody appreciated
her efforts at good grooming.
Parakeets are not the only birds in Boston that will
wolf-whistle. The common starling, that European import, will
whistle, particularly if it was raised on the Boston Common where
it grows up hearing young men do that sort of thing. Several ...