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Birds - Nectar Defender - Hummingbird Feeder Fresh
Birds - Nectar Defender - Hummingbird Feeder Fresh
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Nectar Defender® protects the freshness of your hummingbird nectar by keeping it from spoiling, naturally. Just add a tablespoon of Nectar Defender to each quart of nectar. No need to boil nectar. Nectar Defender will safely keep your hummingbird feeder clean and fresh for weeks!
Simply add a small amount of Nectar Defender® to your hummingbird nectar to protect the freshness naturally, without artificial preservatives or dyes. Uses a safe mineral micronutrient found in a hummingbird’s natural diet to keep your nectar fresh up to two weeks, even in hot weather.
- Dye-free
- Bird-safe
- All natural
- Easy to use
- Change nectar less often
- One bottle can last the whole season
- Helps nectar last for weeks
- No need to boil nectar
CONTENTS: 4 fl oz (118.3 ml)
Additional information from the manufacturer:
Is It Safe?
Yes! Nectar Defender® is absolutely safe for hummingbirds. It contains a low level of a micronutrient that is already consumed by hummingbirds in their natural diet of nectar and insects.
Wild bird safety and health is critical to us at Sapphire Labs, and it is the primary reason for designing our products. We take great pride in creating products that have protected wild birds for over 20 years.
Safety Key Points:
- Hummingbirds naturally consume micronutrient copper in their daily diet of insects and nectar. It is something they must have for their normal growth and development.
- Nectar Defender is well within the natural range of copper found in a wild hummingbird’s diet. The arthropods that hummingbirds eat can be many times the copper level found in Nectar Defender. And, the copper level of Nectar Defender combined with arthropods is still substantially within a hummingbird’s natural nutrient range.
- Micronutrient copper has been proven to be safe for hummingbirds in long-term dietary studies conducted by University of California Avian Scientists, and at zoo and wildlife rehabilitation organizations, to successfully maintain the long-term health of their hummingbird colonies for years at a time.
- To ensure the safety of Nectar Defender, the amount of micronutrient used is below the level tested in these long-term studies, and below the level recommended by the Association of Avian Veterinarians.
- The safety of Nectar Defender has been approved by avian and animal scientists at major universities and other hummingbird experts.
- In a real-world situation, hummingbirds will have multiple sources of natural flower and feeder nectar. As a result, when using Nectar Defender, the actual level of copper in their diet will likely be even less than the drinking water standard.
- Hummingbirds are protected from absorbing more copper than they need due to their bodies’ natural biochemical regulation. Birds have a robust system to precisely maintain a healthy copper balance (copper homeostasis). In fact, the copper from nectar will not even be absorbed in a bird’s digestive system unless it is in need of copper nutrient.
- Micronutrient copper will not accumulate in the hummingbird’s system. Any excess is rapidly excreted.
- The micronutrient copper used in Nectar Defender is the same mineral supplement that has been used for decades to provide essential trace minerals for birds. It is approved for this use by the FDA and USDA. It is safety rated by the FDA as GRAS (“Generally Recognized as Safe”), the safest rating given.
- Based on real-world preference testing, hummingbirds equally prefer nectar with Nectar Defender and standard nectar.
- Nectar Defender actually protects hummingbirds from nectar spoilage naturally up to 2 weeks, even in hot weather.
More safety information from Sapphire Labs: https://sapphirelabs.com/is-nectar-defender-safe/
