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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

10,000 Birds

Last year scientists in Ethiopia discovered the jawbone of a 2.8 Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. On to the avian world. million-year-old early human.

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Weavers

10,000 Birds

It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation. African Harrier-Hawks, snakes and other predators frequently raid weaver colonies to rob the nests of eggs and chicks. Image taken in Samburu, Kenya by Adam Riley.

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