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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

I was so horrified I didn’t even ask why.” “A bat in a bucket floating on a piece of watermelon,” wrote Michelle Whitfield English in Alabama. The carrier was a normal cardboard box, but the opossum was nestled on a square of white fur, surrounded by pinecones and greenery, and all of it was festively tied with a ribbon.