Pitangus Bird
Personal memory by Yuritzia Jimenez
2014 • Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico
When I lived in Mexico, a Pitangus bird would always come to our back door and stare at us. We would go outside and it wouldn't fly away. It would stay there all morning then by the afternoon it would leave just to come back the next morning. It did that for a very long time. then one morning it didn't show up. I wasn't worried because I thought it was gone for only a day but it never came back.
Image Source: Pitangus Bird, Wiki Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Kiskadee_(Pitangus_sulphuratus)_(28584142050).jpg
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