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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 had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!” “We have a resident Eastern Screech Owl who was fed dry oats for ten days BY A VETERINARIAN!”

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

10,000 Birds

This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!),

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