wild birds

Quentin Tarantino, the director who has made us cover our eyes during the goriest sequences of his films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs is apparently a little squeamish himself when it comes to sound effects, especially those that are, as he puts it, "blood-curdling" and "pterodactyl-like".
That is one of the choicer turns of phrase in a lawsuit filed last week by Tarantino against his neighbour, who happens to be Alan Ball, the creator of the True Blood vampire series and the black comedy television show Six Feet Under. There are no ghouls, ghosts or shotgun-wielding madmen involved but just a few macaws.
The birds, it seems, belong to Mr Ball and his partner Peter Macdissi, and each day they are parked in an outdoor aviary in their garden where they are free to make the sounds that all macaws like to make. Charming for their owners, maddening for Tarantino who says the tropical cacophony has to stop.