Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Bittner feeds a flock of wild cherry-headed conures on his front porch on the Greenwich stairs on Telegraph Hill in San ...

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Without Mark Bittner, the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill would just be a flock of rambunctious birds laughing in the hills of San Francisco. Instead, they became the subject of a celebrated film that ...