10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2020

Once I moved to the riverbank, I got to see something else I had never seen before: a Squirrel Cuckoo , drying itself after a good bath. As I learned this week, locals cook the unripe fruit into meat dishes, and eat the ripe fruit raw… as do birds! One allowed me to get almost embarassingly close.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

Raptors feed their young meat. Even wild mammals – fawns, squirrels, bunnies, etc. Not so with birds, who are taken care of by either the mother or both parents until they are old enough to fly. Care does not include milk. Songbirds feed their young mostly insects, sometimes seeds and berries. Waterbirds feed their young fish.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh, I forgot I had a squirrel in here!” THEN we’ll kick him out. I exclaimed, while picking through my freezer for choice meals. “I

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But what really caught my eye as I drove on the gravel road over the top of the capped landfill was a young Red-tailed Hawk feasting on what looked like a dead Gray Squirrel. Always remember to pause during your meal to keep an eye out for potential meat-thieves. Other hawks are the worst! Finally, take small bites.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2009

Squirrel meat is all the rage in Great Britain. Forget Bambi. See here for the story.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

They took it to a bird hospital in Delhi, but were turned away; as the hospital is located behind a Jain temple, so feeding meat to patients was prohibited. “We The first injured bird Nadeem and Mohammad ever found was a Black Kite. We used to regularly find kites with injured wings but there was nowhere to take them,” says Nadeem.

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