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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. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. Feel free to vent!”. If you see a raccoon during the day, it must have rabies! Bats just love to fly into human hair!”

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

My morning routine has already been simplified down to the essentials – roll out of bed and out from under the protective mosquito net, pull on dirty odorous field clothes, munch down a quick breakfast. My co-worker thinks a better name for them is porcupine parrotlets. Not good, I think – it will probably be another scorcher.

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