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Do not rescue baby birds in your garden

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  • 02-04-2003 2:57pm
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    Victor
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    It seems you gotta be cruel to be kind. This does whittle out the weaker chicks and promotes the health of the overall population.
    If you really have to, perhaps leave some suitable food & water near the chick?
    http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/464141?view=Eircomnet
    Do not rescue baby birds in your garden, warns DSPCA
    From:The Irish Independent
    Wednesday, 2nd April, 2003
    Nicola Tallant

    ANIMAL welfare officers have appealed to the householders not to "rescue" baby birds that may appear abandoned in their gardens.

    Thousands or fledglings needlessly die or are brought to the DSPCA between April and July every year because members of the public think they are saving them.

    DSPCA education officer Gillian Bird yesterday called on householders to leave the birds alone.

    "Taking a baby bird from the garden that appears to be lost or abandoned might seem like the right thing to do, but it is often doing more harm that good. "Many are perfectly healthy but, instead of being fed by the parent birds and learning to fend for themselves in the wild, they suffer stress from being handled by humans.

    "Fully feathered birds that are not injured should be left alone, while baby birds that have no feathers should be returned to the nest or placed out of harm, up high, a short distance away - preferably in something like a flower pot, and left completely alone for an hour or so. The parents are likely to be nearby waiting for the person to go. If after a few hours the parent birds have not returned and fed it, then call the DSPCA."

    According to Ms Bird the DSPCA is inundated with calls from the public who have "saved" baby birds through the spring. People are very well-meaning but most of the time we are better just standing back, she said.


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    Littletinyman
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    So Victor, what sort of weaponry should one use for taking out the little c*nts?


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    Mercury_Tilt
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    Littletinyman
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    Shut up, tree-hugger. So Victor, should I use dum-dum bullets or just regulars?


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    Typedef
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    Straighten up and fly right.

    On topic serious discussions ... now...
    mumble.


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