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2. Pellet (ornithology) - Wikipedia

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   A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate. The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestible plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth. In falconry, the pellet is called a casting.

3. Bird food - Wikipedia

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   Commercial bird food is widely available for feeding wild and domesticated birds, in the forms of both seed combinations and pellets. [9] [10]When feeding wild birds, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) [11] suggests that it be done year-round, with different mixes of nutrients being offered each season.

4. Regurgitation (digestion) - Wikipedia

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   Some bird species also occasionally regurgitate pellets of indigestible matter such as bones and feathers. [3] It is in most animals a normal and voluntary process unlike the complex vomiting reflex in response to toxins.

5. Poultry feed - Wikipedia

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   Pellets consist of a mash that has been pelletized; that is, compressed and molded into pellets in a pellet mill. Unlike mash, where the ingredients can separate in shipment and the poultry can pick and choose among the ingredients (many times picking out just the corn and leaving the rest), the ingredients in a single pellet stay together, and ...

6. Experts Say to Keep This in Mind When Cooking Chicken During ...

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   “Bird flu infections in birds, poultry and cattle currently pose a low risk to the public,” says Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., M.D., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious ...

7. US reports first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry - AOL

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   PARIS (Reuters) -The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday. U.S ...

8. Americans may have had bird flu and not even know it, new ...

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   A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it.. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

9. Barn swallow - Wikipedia

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   The barn swallow is a bird of open country that normally nests in man-made structures and consequently has spread with human expansion. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures and feeds on insects caught in flight. [5]