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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

10,000 Birds

Porcupines throw their quills! Porcupines can’t shoot their quills, any more than people can shoot their hair. 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.”. s and “Kill me now!”s.