I wonder if there are some minerals in the clay that the bird needed.
I have seen deer eating "dirt" and always in the same spot.

Jerry and Sandy Converse
Grand Coulee, WA
mailto:sanjer at televar.com

MBlanchrd at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/22/00 9:16:09 AM PST, footet at elwha.evergreen.edu writes:
>
> > What do you make of all that..? If you have an owl and you don't give it
> > some sort of clay you might be depriving it of something special...Who
> > knows. I brought a couple hand full of the stuff home and over the
> weekend
> > will offer it to some of my hawks and just see what happens???? Who
> > knows???
> >
> > Steve here still scratchen his head.
>
> Hmmm. I know that parrots and macaws in S. America eat clay to neutralize the
> alkaloids in the seeds they eat...but I never heard of a raptor doing the
> same thing. This is fascinating. Let us know how your birds react.
> Michelle
> MBlanchrd at aol.com
> Oly, WA
> >

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