AIRLINE SECURITY: Checking Under A Parrot's Wing For A Bomb.

NYTIMES/ Joe Sharkey/ A flyer's recent travel tale/

"My wife and I had never before flown with our two parrots, but this time they had to come along on our nonstop flight to Phoenix. Rosie could fly in the cabin....We were very anxious at the checkpoint. My wife solved the problem, though. One of Rosie’s tricks is to spread her wings and lower her beak if you ask her to imitate an eagle."