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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daisy Dumas

Dale’s balcony in Kings Cross has become a refuge for injured birds, but the healing goes both ways

Dale Edwards and his pet bird Snowy.
Dale Edwards with his pet bird Snowy in Kings Cross, Sydney. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

At 6.21am, they arrive.

From nowhere, the birds churn up the morning calm – 200 or so flapping wings chaotically pounding the air on the small central Sydney balcony. Just inside the sliding door, Snowy, a little corella whose shrill call sounds like a 1990s telephone, has quietened down: the pigeons have heeded his call.

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