I recently ran across the mention of a Teflon “bird mishap” where 21 birds were lost at the San Antonio zoo – a zoo that installed heat lamp bulbs coated with Teflon. When the birds gathered around the Teflon coated heat lamp bulbs to stay warm, they died.

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Hi, love your weekly posts very much – excellent!
Just wanted to pass on the information that I bought a Vicks Warm Mist Humidifier (Model 845 series, sold in Walmart, Target & Rite Aid for about $25 – $30) and called the Vicks Customer Service phone to check about the possibility of Teflon or PTFE in the unit.
The answer was YES, THERE IS TEFLON IN THIS UNIT, so, just wanted bird keepers everywhere to know NOT TO USE THIS IN A BIRD ROOM.
The warm mist kills most bacteria, but, perhaps a cool mist one disinfected weekly or more often, would be as good but with no danger to our feathered charges.
All the best for 2019,
Stefni D
Mary Hagberg Meyer
26 Feb 2017Thank you for such great info! Going to throw out all my teflon right now. I’ve never liked cooking with it anyway!
Mary Meyer
Mary Hagberg Meyer
26 Feb 2017One other question-does a light bulb package state it is coated with teflon? We bought some at Ikea and it doesn’t say anything about teflon and the light fixture hangs over our finch cage