Bad Bird Seed Can Harm Environment
Posted on January 28, 2008
Feeding wild birds is a lot of fun but if you don't take the trouble to find the right seeds you could up harming the environment. The main reason for this is that the wild bird seed may contain invasive weeds that are not native to the area.
Portland Audubon's Karen Munday told KATU, "The last thing we want for the health of our birds is to have non-native weed seeds and weeds be out there. The weeds non only hurt habitat bio-diversity but the wild birds can fly away and spread the seeds elsewhere."
A KATU video report says some of the bird seed also includes milo, which is a grain that the birds won't even eat. It is ridiculous there is a grain in the bird seed that birds don't even like.
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