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Portland’s pigeon poet: ‘It don’t cost you nothing to be good to somebody’

By Troy R. Bennett, BDN Staff

Starr Sarabia does more than feed the pigeons in Portland's Congress Square. Calling himself the "Bird Man of Portland, Maine," he kisses them and takes them for bike rides.

Posted July 24, 2013, at 9:12 a.m.

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