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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

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Raptors feed their young meat. It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator!

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Salami for an American Kestrel, salted popcorn for a baby squirrel,” wrote Sigrid Warren. “I I took in a Flying Squirrel they’d been feeding chocolate covered coffee beans,” wrote Letitia Labbie, to which Sandi Lancaster Leonard replied, “OMG! wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Redtails in Tornados

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Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh, I forgot I had a squirrel in here!” THEN we’ll kick him out. I exclaimed, while picking through my freezer for choice meals. “I

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. They are considered unlucky, so no one has a kind heart for them.”.