10 Worst Foods for Birds You Should Never Feed
The 10 Worst Foods for Birds You Should Never Feed Picture this: it’s Saturday afternoon, you’re cutting up an avocado for toast, and your cockatiel is perched on your shoulder, tilting his head at the fruit. It’s adorable. It’s also one of the most dangerous moments in bird ownership. Here’s the fact that gets everyone’s attention. In a 1989 study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, researchers fed mashed avocado to canaries and budgerigars. Six of the eight budgerigars died within 24 to 47 hours of eating it (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2914792). Not after weeks. Not after a whole fruit. Within about two days. ...