Parrot Sanctuary - Craige, Betty Jean
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Parrot Sanctuary is the story of kidnapping, parrot trafficking, cocaine trafficking, and murder-and the rescue of the wild-caught parrots transported in burlap sacks, crates, and tiny cages from Honduras through Mexico to north Georgia. In the course of events the reader meets Scarlet macaws, Hyacinth macaws, Blue and Gold macaws, an Indigo macaw, and a Yellow-headed amazon, all highly intelligent, all in need of sanctuary at Zoo Arroyo.

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Parrot Sanctuary is the story of kidnapping, parrot trafficking, cocaine trafficking, and murder-and the rescue of the wild-caught parrots transported in burlap sacks, crates, and tiny cages from Honduras through Mexico to north Georgia. In the course of events the reader meets Scarlet macaws, Hyacinth macaws, Blue and Gold macaws, an Indigo macaw, and a Yellow-headed amazon, all highly intelligent, all in need of sanctuary at Zoo Arroyo.
Autorenporträt
Betty Jean Craige retired from the University of Georgia in 2011 as University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. She has been a scholar, a teacher, a translator of Spanish poetry, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction.Over five decades Betty Jean published numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, and the shorter biography of a remarkable bird, titled Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot. She wrote a Sunday column in the Athens Banner-Herald titled "Cosmo Talks" and later collected those essays in Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo. After retirement she turned her attention to fiction and published six Witherston Murder Mysteries-Downstream, Fairfield's Auction, Dam Witherston, Saxxons in Witherston, Death in Potter's Woods, and Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo-and a thriller about genome therapy titled Aldo. Parrot Sanctuary is her seventh Witherston Murder Mystery.Betty Jean lives in Athens, Georgia, with her beloved Cosmo. See: http://www.bettyjeancraige.org.