They hover in the green areas, among the branches of the trees, announcing through melodious chirping. The birds and their songs mark the course of the beautiful days, not only in the spring but also in summer. The heat of these months, however, can also be a risk for these animals.
So here is that to help and refresh them we frant to buy Pastoni or handful of seeds to be distributed around. But Is nourishing birds in the summer period really a healthy habit?
The question is rather controversial with very divergent opinions about it. If some claim that giving birds in summer is a practice not only harmless but represents concrete help in providing them with proteins and nutrients, others are of the opposite opinion.
To clarify the topic, we contacted the Wild Fauna Recovery Center of Rome of the Lipu, the Italian Bird Protection League. This is what Ester Gianfelici, head of the structure, has.
The advice we give to those who go to our recovery center is not to feed the birds in the summer. The risk is that adult specimens go to feed their children with industrial food “
The use of the industrialist, that is, the feed for sale could have consequences over time that we do not expect on wild species. An example are the deficiencies and the recovery center knows something about it.
Birds could present carenial symptoms due to what they eat “
The experts of the French Authority to protect the LPO Avifauna are also of this notice, remembering, among other things, some secondary dangers connected to the practice of feeding birds in summer such as attracting predators or the transmission of diseases from individual to individual.
How to really help birds in summer?
But if not through food, are there other ways to really help birds during the torrid season? The answer is affirmative because good deeds are not limited only to wanting to feed species that in reality should procure food on their own.
More than feed, we can offer birds water bowls in which to drink Or take the bath. This simple gesture can really make the difference. Let’s not forget, however, to change the water of the bowls or the drinking troughs regularly, preferably once a day, and to position them in a repaired area.
In what time can you feed the birds?
If in summer it should therefore be avoided distributing food to birds, In winter it is more than recommended. Winter is a challenge for birds, which can find difficulties in dating.
It is in particular from November to late February that we can help them with special feed. Let’s remember, however, to fill the feeders only in the cold months and to keep them for next winter in early spring. With spring and abundance of food in nature the feeders are no longer needed.
Because in general the wildlife should not be fed
We want to clarify a point when it comes to wildlife. Wild animals, which as such should be and remain wild, in general and this applies all year round, even when food is scarce.
Eating them is a mistake That many commit believing they are helpful, but that’s not the case. Providing food to a wild has a very high price and should never be done for these reasons. He can cost him his life both because in doing so the animal could consume foods that do not belong to their diet and because the habit makes it confidant and dependent on man, lose his survival instinct.
Even if we think we do good by leaving the wild animals of the food available, we actually do more harm than we can imagine.
