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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. s and “Kill me now!”s. Do you associate the sound of a bell with an armed ninja who wants to kill you? If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die.