did the Bird-man of Alcatraz ever keep birds in his cell on "The Rock" ???

Answer 1

No. The first answerer is incorrect. Robert Stroud raised and sold birds in Leavenworth prison, but stopped the bird business when he was transferred to Alcatraz.

The movie erroneously portrays that he kept birds at Alcatraz.

Answer 2

No. Stroud kept birds and wrote his treatise on the diseases of birds while imprisoned not at Alcatraz, but at Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas. He was later transferred to Alcatraz, where he was not allowed to continue his study of birds. The biography written about him in the book "Birdman of Alcatraz" became the story which was made into the famous movie starring Burt Lancaster in an Oscar-nominated role of Stroud; Many parts of the film were only partly true, or covered several prisons into one story.

Answer 3

Yes he did.........

He was originally at Leavenworth, but was later sent to Alcatraz, where he continued to be interested in birds and eventually wrote several books about bird diseases.

Over the course of Stroud's thirty years of imprisonment at Leavenworth, he developed a keen interest in canaries, after finding an injured bird in the recreation yard. Stroud was initially allowed to breed birds and maintain a lab inside two adjoining segregation cells, since it was felt that this activity would provide for productive use of his time. As a result of this privilege, Stoud was able to author two books on canaries and their diseases, having raised nearly 300 birds in his cells, carefully studying their habits and physiology, and he even developed and marketed medicines for various bird ailments. Although it is widely debated whether the remedies he developed were effective, Stroud was able to make scientific observations that would later benefit research on the canary species. However, after several years of Stroud's informal research, prison officials discovered that some of the equipment he had requested was actually being used to construct a still to make an alcoholic brew.

In 1942 Stroud was transferred to Alcatraz, where he spent the next seventeen years - six years in segregation in D Block, and eleven years in the prison hospital. In 1959 he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, and there on November 21, 1963, he was found dead from natural causes by convicted spy, close friend, and fellow inmate Morton Sobell. Stroud had never been permitted to see the movie in which Burt Lancaster portrayed him as a mild-mannered and humane individual, but "Birdman of Alcatraz" later earned Lancaster an Academy Award nomination for best actor.

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Answer 4

The Birdman of Alcatraz became facinated by birds while watching them from his prison cell. I recommend you get the most up-to-date book about his life because many stories about him have been passed around, and the movie about his life also contains many factual errors. It was made for entertainment and does not stick strictly to the truth, as a documentary would do.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Yes, and they sang like canaries !