IS FLIGHT IMPORTANT TO THE WELFARE OF CAPTIVE BIRDS?
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Flight is one of the most constrained natural behaviours for captive birds and restricting or preventing flight is therefore a welfare concern. A proposal has been submitted by Professor Innes Cuthill of the University of Bristol and colleagues at the Universities of Guelph, Canada and Utrecht, the Netherlands, for a study which will test the theory that restricting flight leads to welfare problems in caged birds and the prediction that welfare will be poorest in the most flight-dependent species in the wild.