She married a prince in a fairy tale ceremony that was really only missing the chipper cartoon birds and little forest animals.

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Two of the show birds were missing by Tuesday morning and that evening a member of the public removed the rest and re-homed them.

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And don't rule out collecting replicas--Pritzker has a cast of a theropod skull and Myhrvold has casts of all seven known Archaeopteryx, the missing link between dinosaurs and birds.

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The protestors say in some Channel races, 90% of birds have gone missing, with many presumed dead.

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Austin Lindores, secretary of the Galashiels Homing Society, said he could not recall as many birds ever going missing.

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