Animals lovers are being urged to feed ducks, swans and geese in their local parks as the birds are dying of starvation.
Campaigns, including the Bin the Bread Swan Lifeline campaign, urged wildlife fans to not throw bread into ponds over claims it is not good for the wild birds.
But now there are claims the animals are dying of starvation because people have stopped feeding them.
Posters have been put up in parks across the UK urging "It's OK to feed us bread", reports BirminghamLive .
The posters, read: "Please feed us again, especially in the winter! Everyone has stopped feeding us because they wrongly think bread will make us poorly and now some of us are dying of starvation without your bread.
"Yes, it's not the healthiest for us but nothing in our bellies will kill us!"
In Edinburgh the Queen's official swan keeper David Barber said there is "no good reason" not to feed the swans bread and that many are underweight as a result of the ban.
Our sister title Edinburgh Live first reported on the devastating affects on wild birds due to starvation.
And according to the latest advice from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, feeding birds isn't bad for them, as long as it's small amounts.
An RSPB spokesman said: "For many of us feeding the ducks or swans is our first memory of interacting with nature in the wild, this experience can be an important step towards understanding our natural world and appreciating that we all play a role in caring for it
“Just like us, birds need a varied diet to stay healthy. Although ducks, swans and geese can digest all types of bread, too much can leave them feeling full without giving them all of the important vitamins, minerals and nutrients they need.
“So, although bread isn’t harmful our advice is to only feed small amounts to birds. We encourage people to use things like sweetcorn, porridge oats and defrosted frozen peas as well as bird seed.”
