Canários - O Homem e as aves - Canários

Harold Washington, one of Chicago's most outstanding and beloved mayors, was also a posthumous hero to the Hyde Park parakeets. From a penthouse overlooking the small neighborhood, he watched the birds from his balcony as they nested and fed in what is now called Harold Washington Park. He was the inspiration for the Harold Washington Memorial Parakeet Defense Trust Fund that thwarted the city's plans to remove the birds in 1988. It was often joked that the body guards outside his penthouse were their to protect the parakeets and not him. Too bad we can't say that today.