“He’d been at the wrong place at the wrong time, seen something he wasn’t supposed to, and wouldn’t stop talking about it. All this chatter, King told Heck, meant he was making himself into a potential target.” Laurel Braitman shares the strange tale of Echo, the parrot who saw too much. (Every day I worry that my cats will learn to speak.)

+ NYT: Parrots are a lot more than a pretty bird.