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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

10,000 Birds

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! Milk + Wildlife = Big Mistake.

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PSA

Reddit Animals

You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters don’t normally take wildlife and if they do it’s rare. 3) Rabbits have one of the highest caloric milks among mammals so cows milk isn’t going to cut it. It’s just not their function and against a few rules.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. Baby birds/wildlife and milk is another entire blog, there are so many. The baffling, mind-boggling public. He had a big heart!”.

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