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I never understood the insect thing. Every house in our neighbourhood has at least one bird feeder. The birds are lazy and just chill all day around and eat all
by myth_drannon 5y ago
I never understood the insect thing. Every house in our neighbourhood has at least one bird feeder. The birds are lazy and just chill all day around and eat all kinds of seeds, oats and nuts provided by humans. From time to time they bother with worms after the rain. None are ever hungry for sure.
- throwamon 5y agoI'm trying to find a more charitable interpretation to your comment, but are you implying that insects are nothing but easily replaceable human-neighborhood bird food?
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoI think the GP is saying, the birds have plenty of food, what do they need insects for? (I agree this is probably over-simplified.)
- benglish11 5y agoMany birds solely/mostly feed their young insects even if the adults prefer seeds. Even lowly sparrows will eat insects to feed their young. This is one of the reasons Mao’s four pests campaign to kill all the sparrows was such a huge failure.