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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

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!” At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.”

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Of Whiskey Jacks and Water Ouzels

10,000 Birds

Peregrine Falcon is certainly more elegant than Duck Hawk. Also known as Meat-bird, Moosebird, and Lumberjack. Clark’s Nutcracker : On the other hand, the folk vernacular can be surprisingly insightful about taxonomy and even convergent evolution, as when people call this non-standard corvid a Woodpecker Crow.

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