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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” And Heather Merritt gets the grand finale: “People trying to feed wood chips to nestling woodpeckers because ‘that’s what they’re doing up there, isn’t it?’”.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. Schloßpark Schwetzingen (“palace gardens of Schwetzingen”) in Schwetzingen – obviously – are a very good area, and also good for woodpeckers and generally common park/garden birds.

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