I'm enjoying this list immensely. Thank you. I hope you will not take this as a "crank" submission. It is for real. Last evening we having dinner at friend's house on Willow Ave., near Yates Street. To their bird feeder came a really unusual bird. About 11 inches long. A slim body with a tail about 4 inches long. The feather colors were grey with, I think, some dark blue in the tail. The body feathers went up as far as the neck, with a distinct "collar" around the neck, rounded in towards the body. The head was small, compared to what we expected for a body that long--no more than an inch. The head was distinctly parrot- or parakeet-like. It was dark blue and the yellow beak was very much like a parakeet, extending up to the forehead. But the body was long enough that it seemed to big for a parakeet (but I don't know much about parakeets). So, was it an escapee from someone's downtown cage? Marty Hatch (for four observers)
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