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14 Μαΐ 2015 · Hedgehogs eat the eggs and chicks of native, ground-dwelling birds. Riverbed breeding birds such as the banded dotterel and black-fronted terns are most at risk, but they are known to prey on a range of species and can take birds up to the size of a two week old chicken.
We will discuss which insects can benefit your hedgehog most, where to get them, and how to store your hedgie's bug cuisine. The nutritional values of each insect below will vary depending on where you purchase them and how you feed them.
Hedgehogs hoover up countless endemic birds’ eggs and chicks, lizards, and invertebrates. In braided river systems they feast on the eggs and chicks of banded dotterels, black-fronted terns and pied oyster catchers.
A hedgehog raiding the nest of a dottrel (Charadrius morinellus) and eating the eggs. - Credit: Braided River Aid (BRaid). Translocation or extermination are clearly options for reducing hedgehog impact, but elsewhere we have seen fences used to protect breeding bird colonies from predators.
27 Νοε 2023 · Hedgehogs eat a wide variety of things, but the main course for them is insects. Sometimes they will snack on other small critters like slugs, frogs, fish, worms, and eggs. See the trend here?
Scientific name: Erinaceus europaeus. Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles. They are most active at night and hibernate through winter. Species information. Category. Mammals. Statistics.
Hedgehogs are chiefly insectivores, often travelling a mile or more by night in search of food. Their diet includes beetles, caterpillars and earthworms, alongside fruit, birds’ eggs and the odd small animal. Such a wide-ranging menu ensures a hedgehog’s natural diet is perfectly balanced to suit its nutritional needs.
