There's something unsettling about grief because it doesn't announce itself in a single, universal way. It slips into the corners of our days, into the pauses in conversation, into the things we reach ...

Mark Bittner, the man who brought the city's offbeat flock of wild parrots to international attention in one of San Francisco ...

The wild parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill had an unlikely champion in Mark Bittner, the busker-turned-caretaker ...

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