VILLA PARK, Ill. (CBS) – Hundreds of birds
that had been flying free in a trash-strewn town home in Aurora were in a new
home on Saturday.
WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports a total of
358 birds were rescued from David Skeberdis’ home on Shadybrook Lane in Aurora
this week, after his home was declared a nuisance property by the city of
Aurora.
Barbara Morris and a team of volunteers from the
Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club have been caring for the birds at a Villa Park
storefrtont, after they were rescued by professional contractors on Friday.
Skeberdis had tried to capture the birds on his
own beginning Wednesday night, but managed to capture only about a dozen by a
10 a.m. deadline on Friday. That’s when Aurora officials sent in private
contractors to remove the rest of the birds.
“They took in nets. It was a team of seven men
who went into the home in hazmat gear, because of the … extraordinarily high
mold levels within the home,” Morris said.
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