Tom Kline, a lawyer for the alleged victim's mother, said the girl's report of a talking bird in the house where she was held became a focal point of the investigation.

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One officer called to say there was a bird left in a house in the fire's path.

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She thought there was a sick bird in the house that kept calling for help, or more precisely, tweeting every few seconds as if it was in distress.

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WHEN, a few years ago, word came that British bird lovers anxious about the decline of the house sparrow had appointed a sparrow tsar, it seemed that the tsar vogue must have reached its zenith.

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In the perfect absence of thundering house music, the call of a lone, coarse-throated bird thunders like a foghorn.

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Schnieder, who is originally from the south of France, and his partner Maria live in a picture perfect, pastel blue two-story house that looks out onto bird filled marshes.

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From our place to Fort Smith was about seventy miles as a bird flies, taking you past beautiful Mount Nebo where we had a little summer house so Mama could get away from the mosquitoes, and also Mount Magazine, the highest point in Arkansas, but it might as well have been seven hundred miles for all I knew of Fort Smith.

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