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Feeding the Hospitalized Bird of Prey

All raptors consume a meat-based diet ranging from the specialist diet of the fish-eating osprey (Pandion haliaetus) to a generalist diet that can include insects, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even carrion. Other than poultry, the exact nutritional requirements of birds are unknown, however the natural raptor diet is always relatively high in protein and fat and low in carbohydrates. Whole prey diets have a calcium/phosphorus ratio of 1.5:1 as the bird actually consumes the bones as well as the meat…

Elizabeth Daut, DVM, PhD

Dr. Elizabeth Daut is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), a National Science Foundation-funded think tank in Annapolis, Maryland…