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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

10,000 Birds

Waterbirds feed their young fish. 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.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We A nestling Eastern Screech Owl they fed nothing but fish,” wrote Eileen Hagerman. “I I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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