Other common symptoms include fever, headache, deformity of the nose, weakness, dizziness and sore throat. Complications of epistaxis include nausea and vomiting due to the swallowing of blood. More serious complications can include anemia, hypovolemic shock, airway obstruction and very rarely, death.
Fully grown Gambel's quails subsist upon a diet that is 90 percent vegetarian. Insects remain in their diet as a supplement, especially during nesting season when their caloric needs are greater.
Feeding Habits/What Do They Eat. The diet of the Bluejay consist of a variety of foods. These birds are intelligent and adaptable, they are quick to eat peanuts at bird feeders. Be sure to use a Peanut Feeder that can keep the squirrels from getting the peanuts. Their winter diet consist mostly of vegetable matter, acorns, beechnuts, seeds and berries. Othertimes they will feed on larger insects, grasshoppers, caterpillars, mice, bird eggs, and baby birds. Although known to rob nest of eggs and baby birds, only a very small percentage of their diet comes from these sources.