By Help prevent local wildlife from starving this winter
Wildlife rescues and nature reserves across the country have hundreds of animals such as birds who are starving due to the lack of visitors through the pandemic.
Visitors who visit local parks, lakes and reserves tend to bring feed with them in order to feed the ducks and geese however due to coronavirus the amount of people who visit has reduced rapidly.
Hundreds of places across the country are urging locals to help by donating food or money to local wildlife rescues.
Dr Neil Reid, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology at Queen’s explains for animals which rely on forging in urban spaces the pandemic has hit hard.
He said: “Species associated with, and dependent on humans as a source of food, for example, urban gulls and pigeons may have substantially reduced opportunities to forage on spilled foods and leftover takeaways.”
“This could cause starvation, lower breeding success and perhaps cause population declines.”
One location which desperately urged locals and rescues to help their wildlife is Cleethorpes Boating Lake.
The Boating Lake posted on Facebook: “We asked Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue to visit our site after noticing that the birds are a lot hungrier than normal. We are so thankful for their volunteer team.”
“They visited with 40kg of really high quality seed and tree feeders for the various other birds at our lake. They also did a welfare check on them while at the lake.”
The boating lake are hoping this will give them a boost while there are less people due to cold weather.
They still advise if you are visiting the lake, or your local wildlife hotspots, that you bring some bird feed with you.
They recommend this could include: WHOLEMEAL bread, wild bird seed, dried oats, peas, sweetcorn or even lettuce.
Wildlife areas are suffering with a lot of starving birds so please consider feeding the wildlife.
Please also consider making a donation to your local rescue.
