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From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR:  Need advice for the purchase of bird supplies.
Message-ID: <202@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 90 19:09:48 GMT
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In article <958@cfiprod.UUCP> susans@cfiprod.UUCP (Susan Scheide -CFI-) writes:
>	and now have a question: aren't cockatiels from the same area
>	that budgies are?  Therefore, wouldn't their native diet be very
>	similar to the native diet of budgies? 

Actually, if they are from the same habitat it is a safe bet that their 
native diets are different (with some overlap), otherwise, only one of 
the species would have thrived in the ecological niche.  Diet is only one 
factor, of course, but a very important one.

-lar

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