Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Bittner feeds a flock of wild cherry-headed conures on his front porch on the Greenwich stairs on Telegraph Hill in San ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Writer Mark Bittner, author of "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill," feeds sunflower seeds to the wild parrots that descended onto ...

Whenever I read a rave review of a “nature film,” like The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, with its implicit/explicit promise that this film is about far more than a flock of parrots and their ...

Without Mark Bittner, the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill would just be a flock of rambunctious birds laughing in the hills of San Francisco. Instead, they became the subject of a celebrated film that ...

Filmmaker Judy Irving, his partner of more than two decades, confirmed the news to SFGATE from the apartment the couple shared together just off the Greenwich Steps. Charlie Parker and Big Bird, two ...