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Green-winged macaw (Ara chloroptera)Animal control officers rescued 43 exotic birds Wednesday evening from a condemned East Side home.
"It's really a sad, sad situation," said Donna Straub, director of the Pueblo Community Animal Shelter. "This was an elderly man who had all of these tropical birds in a house with no heat and no water. The health department had condemned the home."
Straub said animal control was notified Monday by neighbors who were concerned about what they thought were only about five birds in the home at 507 E. 12th St.
Neighbors said the owner hadn't been seen at the home for several days.
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