The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters
Darryl Jones
Abstract
Feeding wild birds in gardens and backyards is one of the most popular forms of interaction between humans and wild animals. Yet despite the enormous scale of this activity and the millions of people involved throughout the world, remarkably little is known about the practice or the potential implications associated with the provisioning of vast amounts of food, all of which is additional to the bird’s natural diet. Many questions arise: Does bird feeding change wildlife communities? Does it aid the spread of disease? Is it essential for the conservation of many struggling species, especially ... More
Keywords: Bird feeding, Urban wildlife, Supplementary feeding, Urban ecology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501710780 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: September 2018 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501710780.001.0001 |
