Quality, not quantity, of diet is key to health of baby birds

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 07:01 in Health & Medicine

In a new study that upends the way ornithologists think about a young bird’s diet – but won’t shock parents used to scanning the nutritional profile of their children’s food – Cornell researchers have found that when it comes to what chicks eat, quality trumps quantity. In recent decades, many aerial insectivores, such as tree […]

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