Why Shouldn't We Feed Water Birds? WEC 179/UW193, 11/2003

Hostetler, Mark E., Martin B. Main, and Maena Voigt. 2004. “Why Shouldn’t We Feed Water Birds? WEC 179/UW193, 11/2003”. EDIS 2004 (1). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-uw193-2003.

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"Water birds" are birds that live in or near aquatic environments such as the ocean, lakes, marshes, swamps, and rivers. This includes pelicans, ducks, geese, herons, egrets, gulls, terns, cormorants, etc. Feeding water birds leads to many different problems. This document is Fact Sheet WEC 179, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published November 2003.

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