# Hyacinth & Birds *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Oct 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Marty_Light *01 Oct 1997, 17:52* Heard this on an National Public Radio broadcast the other day ("The 90-second Naturalist" with Thane Maynord (sp?) from the Cincy Zoo): One of the most common types of macaws is the hyacinth macaw, named for its purple-hued feathers. Perhaps Silk's bird-brained relationships extended beyond Oreb. ---