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When I was growing up in El Salvador we used to have a parakeet named Mad Max.

Parakeets, or periquitos, are bright green birds who tend to speak and do crazy things. My first bird used to scream exactly like me which would make my mother come frantically looking for me just to find a gleeful parakeet. Mad max could also play soccer with my tic tac toe ball and would run around the house playing with it. He also had a weird tendency to eat tortilla dough and chicken ( which technically made him a cannibal)…

He was a weird and quirky bird and he was one of many. Everyday on sunset the sky would be filled with these lovely birds and you could hear their screeching as they went towards the dying sun.  Today you are lucky if you see ten or twenty. These beautiful birds are becoming extinct because of the senseless and illegal trafficking to the United States.  I am dedicating this week to Mad Max and all those other beautiful birds out there.

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