Workers from Restoration Techs remove items Friday from the porch of a house on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane in Aurora, where the owner admits to being a hoarder.

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Homeowner Dave Skeberdis brings out a caged bird to give to the Greater Chicago Chicago Cage Bird Club before the city of Aurora took over the cleanup of his house on Friday.

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Diana Federl, head of adoption at the Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club, carries birds from a home on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane, as the city took over clean up on Friday.

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Some of roughly 250 birds taken from a home on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane in Aurora. Birds will be taken to a shelter in Villa Park, where donations are being accepted, and will be examined by a veterinarian.

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George Hallenbeck with the Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club, takes a cage of birds as the city of Aurora takes over the clean up of a home filled with birds and mounds of garbage on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane.

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Volunteers like Diana Federl, head of adoption at the Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club, coached workers on how to remove hundreds of birds from a home that was also filled with garbage on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane.

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Birds are removed from a home on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane in Aurora on Friday. Owner Dave Skeberdis now has until Nov. 7 to clean the mounds of garbage inside until the city can take over.

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George Hallenbeck with the Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club, carries a cage of birds that were taken from a house on the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer