The Birdman of Alcatraz was a movie made in 1962 starring Burt Lancaster about a prison "lifer" who raised sparrows and canaries while in Federal prison. And we all have heard stories of miners taking canaries down into coal mines to test the quality of the air and react to gases. Now we read of that notorious drug lord who escaped from a Mexican prison thru a mile long tunnel and they found a dead bird in his cell. The drug king's nickname is El Chapo and they named the deceased bird Chapito. And then I recalled that old song "Be kind to your fine feathered friends......"
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