New York Times Corrects Its Bird Poop Description

An op-ed printed in Monday’s edition of the New York Times has been amended to correct a fact about bird poop.

In the op-ed, author Jennifer Finney Boylan chronicles all the types of bicycles she had growing up and what they remind her of when she thinks about them. The original column contained this line: “From there, I watch bald eagles and ospreys, whose poop, owing to their diet of berries, stains the gray rocks purple.”

That poop part is not factually accurate, according to the correction:

The line with the bird poop error was changed to read: “From there, I watch bald eagles and ospreys, and other birds, whose poop, owing to their diet of berries, stains the gray rocks purple.”

[h/t Jim Romenesko]

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