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Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:47AM (#23748472)
...except that recognizing birds is pretty trivial these days if you let somebody else do the heavy lifting: https://cloud.google.com/vision

Which is the OP's issue as well: they'd be better off letting somebody else like Google parse their text instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by tominsam on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:31AM (#23748963)
and indeed that comic (published September 2014) is more than 5 years old now. Seems accurate.