Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.
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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham
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! Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien.
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10,000 Birds
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As long as they had no drugs in their system, and as long as they weren’t touched by a cat (and thus contaminated with salmonella/pasteurella/Bartonella, etc.) He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well.
Sepilok: Worth a Second Look
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JUNE 25, 2014
We heard, but didn’t see, a Brown Wood-ow l, and best of all a massive cat-sized Red Giant Flying Squirrel and a rabbit-sized Sunda Stink-badger. This Cream-coloured Giant Squirrel was one of the highlights of Sepilok’s Rainforest Discovery Centre. It is hard to tell, but it is massive!
How To Help A Baby Bird
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
You typically do not find a bird this naked or featherless outside of the nest unless there has been a storm or the nest has been attacked by predator like a raccoon, chipmunk, squirrel or corvids. They don’t build nests and some like Great Horned Owls take over old hawk or squirrel nests. That is probably one of the adults.
Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds. I also use the weight sensitive “squirrel proof&# feeders to keep them out of my sunflower seed. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.
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