An appetite for connection: why we need to understand the effect and value of feeding wild birds

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Garden Bird Feeding: Insights and Prospects from a North-South Comparison of This Global Urban Phenomenon (2017, background): “…of food supplements provided, especially in Australia where meat is routinely fed to populous species such as Australian magpies, butcherbirds Cracticus spp., and kookaburras (Alcedinidae) that are all relatively large species and abundant in urban landscapes (O’Leary and Jones, 2006; Jones, 2011).”
Decreased vigilance or habituation to humans? Mechanisms on increased boldness in urban animals (2019, background): “However, humans sometimes make affinity relationships with wild animals such as small birds and mammals; for example, humans feed animals and animals rely on such artificial feeding (Jones 2011; Jokimäki et al. 2017).”
Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities (2012, background): “…cultural (e.g., introducing or removing predators; Sims et al. 2008) or practical (e.g., convincing homeowners to stop providing food for wildlife; Jones 2011) reasons, modeling can be used to explore population responses to changing food availability, diet composition, and predator abundance…”