Why Birds: Should Birds Be Feed?

Does it do any good to birds, when they are fed by humans? A lot of people feed birds and believe they are favoring them in many ways. Though it may seem that that is what they are doing, it is absolutely not. Instead they are horribly harming them. People who feed birds think that they are helping them get stronger and healthier to survive in the wilderness, but what they are really doing is making it even more difficult for them to survive. How can it be more difficult for a strong, healthy bird to survive in the wilderness? There are many things that explain this question and helps people understand the importance of letting birds find food on their own. Feeding them may sound like a wonderful action to help wildlife, but it is definitely …show more content…
There are thousands of hungry birds around the world searching for at least a small amount of food to survive in the planet. They eat whatever is found and sometimes have no luck in finding some. When food is found, it is most likely that they will be willing to share with anybody else. The world is filled with competition. Birds have to compete with each other to be able to maintain themselves alive. Sometimes they spend days without the luck of finding food, so they always need to take advantage when they find aliment. Birds and all the other animals around the world are born with a competitive instinct. This instinct makes them capable of doing anything to be able to get some food. Bird feeding can attract large amounts of birds to a certain location. Each bird in that location is eager to compete with each other in order to be able to get food to remain alive. The more birds that get attracted by the food, means more competition between each one of them for every single crumb. The reason why bird become belligerent is because they often get into fights for trying to keep something that another animal wants. There is not always the sufficient amount of food for every single animal that gathers around, so birds go against each other to be able to get something out of there. In the article "Stop Feeding Wild Birds" it talks about the change of behavior of birds …show more content…
Birds and all the other animals in the world are taught by nature how to take care of themselves on their own. They learn how to find shelter, how to escape from predators, and the most important one of them all, how to find food. Food is the most important necessity for every living organism in the world. Nothing is capable of surviving without it. Knowing how to find food is what keep birds alive. When people feed birds, they are making them dependable of humans. They don't have to search for food, when they know it is waiting for them. The reason why being dependable is so harmful for birds is because they won't be fed forever by that person. There are many things that could keep a person to continue feeding birds like economic problems, home changing, or even death. This always happens in life and not only affects a person, but its surroundings. If a bird becomes too dependent of a human and that human stops feeding that bird, that bird will certainly die for being incapable of finding food. It is known that birds migrate from one place to another in the winter. This is because food is more available in thermal places than in cold places. Birds often forget to move when they are fed, looking for food in that area. If they are not fed by humans during winter time, they will certainly not survive for unavailability of food in