The Role of Birds on the Farm Course: Lesson 6 - Co-Existing and Making Farms Safe for Birds

Upon successfully completing this lesson, participants will be able to:

• Explain livestock situations that are bigger or smaller risks of being sources of pathogens for birds, which could then be deposited on food.
• Give reasons why birds are likely to be a lower food safety risk when farms are in areas with abundant natural habitat.
• Evaluate farm situations (telephone wires, etc.) where birds are more likely to cause contamination.
• Share reasons why habitats like hedgerows do not have a greater risk of food borne. pathogens than the crop itself.
• Appraise circumstances in which farms may cause harm to birds (pesticides and predators).