It's just like a restaurant in my hometown, but instead of only serving bread they give you heroin, it's in a abandoned factory and you have to sit on the floor, but the vibe is just magical
Now the question is when you pay them, do you give them actual bank notes, or do you give them a paper that says "MONEY" and has brackets on four corners?
waterfowl (specifically waterfowl, not other birds), but the proposed mechanism is not *malnutrition*, but *excess* carbohydrates and protein vs. traditional high-fibre low-nutrition diets. The link is not entirely clear and is disputed in the literature.
... and behaviors - bread or not. Contrarily, human feeding of wild birds is known in some places to be key sustainers of threatened or endangered populations.
If you don't believe me about any of this, start browsing through the peer-reviewed research:
Bread is seeds (wheat grain), modified through processing, fermentation, and baking to make the nutrients therein highly digestible. "Bread and water" is literally a phrase for "a minimal (if subpar) sustainable diet".
Substituting seeds and grains is not *identical*, but not that dissimilar.
With white bread, much fibre, B vitamins, and some minerals are lost; with whole wheat, small amounts are lost. In both, iron and zinc accessibility increase, the carbs and protein become more easily digestible, and there's commonly fortification (iron, folate) in bread.
It's good for waterfowl to not overconsume human foods, and continue to forage for high fibre, lower energy-density plant matter, invertebrates, etc. But bread is not some sort of singular culprit here.
(By contrast, for seed-eating birds, bread is often quite close to their nutritional needs)
My primary source of the "don't feed wild birds with bread" idea is an actual ornithologist: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Natalia-Atamas
She doesn't have non-scientific articles or interviews in English since she is from Ukraine hence I shared the link I've googled.
"If you constantly feed bread to ducks or swans, they will be less likely to rely on natural food. If you feed white bread to a wild duck once or put it in a feeder, nothing bad will happen. It's the same as taking a child to McDonald's once. But a child cannot eat hamburgers all the time, right?"
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Sorry, came over all “Bread” there for a moment.
https://www.gibsonswildliferehabcentre.org/make-your-home-safe-for-wildlife/feed-birds-only-suitable-food
No, bread is not a source of "malnutrition". It's highly nutritious & digestible for most birds, compared to most natural feeds.
It has been argued that overconsumption of bread can lead to angel wing in...
Any addition of food alters ecosystems...
If you don't believe me about any of this, start browsing through the peer-reviewed research:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=impact+feeding+birds+%22bread%22&btnG=
Substituting seeds and grains is not *identical*, but not that dissimilar.
With white bread, much fibre, B vitamins, and some minerals are lost; with whole wheat, small amounts are lost. In both, iron and zinc accessibility increase, the carbs and protein become more easily digestible, and there's commonly fortification (iron, folate) in bread.
(By contrast, for seed-eating birds, bread is often quite close to their nutritional needs)
She doesn't have non-scientific articles or interviews in English since she is from Ukraine hence I shared the link I've googled.