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That is good to know as I see lots of people feeding white bread to birds. My bunch get seeds, fat and fruit.
What Kitchen Scraps Can Birds Eat?
This site suggests bread, including raw pastry dough, as being suitable. The author of this page might be a bit misinformed.
I think she's just cutting pasting different articles she finds on the internet, because in another one she does say that bread is bad.This site suggests bread, including raw pastry dough, as being suitable. The author of this page might be a bit misinformed.
You can give them chopped fruits and veggies, they love those.Is it specific to white bread? What about whole wheat...I sometimes feed that to the wild turkey that visit every day.
The problem with bread is that it's like junk food to the birds, and has no nutritional value. They love to eat it and will fill up on it, leaving no room to eat healthy, nutritious food. It can cause them to gain a lot of extra fat as well, just like people. In ducks (not sure about other birds), that fat can cause organ damage as it fills them up internally.
The same goes for iceberg lettuce (it's romaine lettuce in the pictures). It just fills them up, but doesn't offer anything nutritionally.
You can give them chopped fruits and veggies, they love those.
Here's some pictures from their Thanksgiving feasts, you can kind of see what they're eating.
Woodstock Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary