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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hatchling that I got in two years ago,” wrote Leslie Jackson, a rehabber in Tulsa, OK, and sent the ‘before’ photo above and the ‘after’ photo, six weeks later, below. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”. She was totally featherless except for a tuft of white on the crown of her head.