{"id":324,"date":"2023-12-31T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=324"},"modified":"2023-12-31T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:44:33","slug":"bird-feeding-is-not-only-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Bird feeding is not only for the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wildlife Society <a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/bird-feeding-is-not-only-for-the-birds\/\">has a great post<\/a> on the benefits of feeding birds, not only benefits the birds (especially in the lean winter months) but also has a mesurable beneficial effect on the psychology of those people who love feeding our feathered friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, during outbreaks of avian influenza, some organisations were cautioning against feeding wild birds in order to stop disease transmission. The interplay of disease, wellbeing and policy are explored in a paper in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/pan3.10566\">People and Nature<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wildlife Society has a great post on the benefits of feeding birds, not only benefits the birds (especially in the lean winter months) but also has a mesurable beneficial effect on the psychology of those people who love feeding our feathered friends. However, during outbreaks of avian influenza, some organisations were cautioning against feeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}