The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 (9), Article CD009956
So it may well be that these birds indulging in pest control spawned the Phoenix legend...
Marques P, Piqueras L, Sanz MJ
Backers of the ban have disputed the findings of a key study cited by opponents about cigarette smoking among high schoolers after San Francisco banned flavored products, saying that it arrived at a premature conclusion about youth switching to cigarettes because it relied on surveys that reflected incomplete implementation of the San Francisco ban
Dickinson.-However, if our countrymen are so soon changed, and the language of 1774, is become odious to them, it will be in vain to use the language of freedom, or to attempt to rouse them to free enquiries: But I shall never believe this is the case with them, whatever present appearances may be, till I shall have very strong evidence indeed of it
After crossing the road and looking down the side of the ditch, I saw Old Whitey lying about three feet from the edge of the road