Why not feed birds artificial food?
• Salt present in bread and processed foods is not present in bird’s natural diet. • Fat also limited in natural diet. Kookaburras eat lizards, frog’s insect’s etc, all low in fat unlike the processed meat often fed to them. • Bird Seed often not the type of seed that the birds would naturally eat. Seed left out in damp conditions rots, grows mould and introduces disease to the birds. • Spread of disease by concentrating food and birds in large numbers in one place. • What happens when you stop? Birds often become dependent on the provision of food and lose the ability to forage for themselves particularly if they have been reared to this type of feeding by the parent birds and not taught how to find food in natural circumstances. • Illness ‘Runners’ are created by a virus spread from bird to bird and causes loss of flight feathers and therefore prevents flying. These birds become easy prey for cats and foxes. They also can get a bleeding disease, which is caused by a lack of pectin no
