Audubon Magazine

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

Sherry Williams was at home one day when every car alarm on the block began screeching. Was there a crash? she wondered. She found the answer next door, in a vacant lot she’d cleaned up and filled with birdfeeders: a good 200 parrots, screaming in unison. Their voices were reverberating against the walls, setting off the alarms.

Her feeders had received

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