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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

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! At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We Like they aren’t crazy enough?”.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

10,000 Birds

Raptors feed their young meat. Pet stores sell mealworms in small plastic containers, which will do the the trick until the rehabber takes over; just make sure they are tiny little mini-mealworms, and not the big mean ones that can actually bite you and which would make short work of a nestling songbird. Care does not include milk.