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August 26, 2014

Purple Prose in The Times

This appeared last Wednesday on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times:

An Op-Ed essay on Monday described bald eagles and ospreys incorrectly. They eat fish, and their poop is white; they do not eat berries and excrete purple feces. (Other birds, like American robins, Eurasian starlings and cedar waxwings, do.)

I am guessing that the berries were pokeweed.

 

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