Do Ducks' Quacks Echo? And Other Bird Myths [Updated] - Ornithology
I receive all kinds of questioDuck-Quacks-Dont-Echo-Lee-Mack-02-16x9-1ns from around the world via my website, ornitholo.wpenginepowered.com. I have been contacted by newspapers, magazines, radio and TV shows, Hollywood producers, authors, artists, scientists, architects, and even a fighter pilot in Iraq, asking about some aspect of birds. Mostly they are straightforward questions about identification, bird houses, feeding, behavior, diseases, etc., but occasionally the questioner alludes to some old wives’ tale such as that of touching a bird’s nest or eggs or young causing the parents to abandon the nest or even kill the young.
