Sunday, February 9, 2014

CBS news extreme bird feeding leads to a ban

In Hempstead:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/9803182-new-law-bans-extreme-backyard-bird-feeding/

Bird biologists and animal experts  like to discourage wildbird waterfowl feeding due to unsanitary conditions created and avian addictions. Disease (avian flu, botulism from dense flocks) and human imprinting are some results

See this excellent link why. http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7001.html