Punta Gorda, Florida. des “bird thieves” cut off the electricity to a shopping mall around 2 a.m., disabling surveillance cameras. They enter the premises of a society for the protection and adoption of parrots, which houses a hundred specimens. “They knew very precisely what they were looking for, they went straight to the point”, testifies to The Atlantic the director of the association. In all, 28 parrots will be flown.
The journalist of the American magazine, adopting a deliberately light tone, explains that he has documented the phenomenon for ten years by consulting the press in search of various facts involving birds – “less for my work than out of curiosity”, he specifies. Without relying on precise statistical data, nor on a delimited geographical area, he notes that thefts specifically targeting parrots are on the increase – at least in the English-speaking world, his research applies