FOOD OF YOUNG BIRDS
It is impossible to ignore the quantities of insect-food consumed by nestling birds. Young birds eat their own weight in food in 24 hours. A young robin (to quote a well-known computation) will eat 14 feet of worm in 12 hours, and be ready for more. A moment’s consideration of the numbers of nests and young, and of the number of times a day, an hour, in which food is brought to the ever-hungry brood, may suggest the millions upon millions of injurious insects so destroyed, but no conception can realise the gigantic total.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 8, 1 March 1925, Page 16
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