Jim Corr - Home Page. PakPassion.net - The Home of Pakistan Cricket. 5 Ways You Bug Your Boss--and How to Stop- Yahoo! HotJobs. Ten Toxic Foods for Bird Owners to Avoid. Because birds are such social creatures, many owners allow their pets to be included at mealtime. While sharing food with your bird is a lot of fun - not to mention wonderful for your pet's emotional health - there are many common human foods that can be harmful or even fatal to your bird. Owners need to know which foods are fine for sharing, and which pose a serious risk.
Read on to find out the top ten foods that are hazardous to your bird's health. 1. Chocolate Reiner Urbaniak/The Image Bank/Getty Images Chocolate is a wonderful treat to share with human family members, but it can be harmful or fatal to your pet bird. 2. Believe it or not, apples - along with other members of the rose family including cherries, peaches, apricots, and pears - contain trace amounts of Cyanide within their seeds. 3. The skin and pit of this popular fruit had been known to cause cardiac distress and eventual heart failure in pet bird species. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1760. ZooBorns. The Denver Zoo welcomed the first Steller’s Sea Eagle chick to be successfully reared at the zoo.
Because only a few United States zoos exhibit or breed these raptors, the chick’s hatching is a rare event in the U.S. The first two photos shown here feature the chick; the third and fourth photos show an adult Steller’s Sea Eagle. Photo Credit: Denver Zoo The unnamed chick, whose gender is still not known, hatched on March 4. The chick is currently nesting with and being brooded by its mother. This is the first chick for both mother, Ursula, and father, Vlad. Steller’s Sea Eagles are the largest known eagles with average weights between 15 and 18 pounds. With a wild population estimated between 4,600 and 5,000 individuals, Steller’s Sea Eagles are classified as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Real News Network. The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper.