RFK Jr. teams up to save the ostriches with NYCs own animal-loving billionaire John Catsimatidis

Birds of a feather …Animal-loving New York City supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis has joined forces with emu-owning federal health Commissioner Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

in urging Canadian officials to take their heads out of the sand to save ostriches at a north-of-the-border bird farm.Catsimatidis told The Post on Sunday he is grateful the head of Health and Human Services is also now sticking his neck out for the cause, which he has been pushing since last month, as first reported by The Post’s Page Six.“Let’s save the ostriches! They have a right to live if they are healthy,” said the Gristedes supermarket founder, who also owns 770 WABC radio.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has said it needs to kill nearly 400 of the birds at the Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia to curb the spread of the avian flu.Catsimatidis, who also owns oil and bio-fuel businesses, said he raised the alarm after animal-rights activists alerted him to the situation.“I love animals.Let’s save the whales, too,” he said — noting his next project is protect whales from being imperiled by offshore wind-power set-ups.The mogul also has been known to love pandas, once trying to convince the Chinese government to loan out the bears to the Big Apple’s Central Park Zoo.As for the ostriches, Kennedy, along with the heads of the US Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health, sent a May 23 letter to the Canadian agency urging it to reconsider its plan.The birds don’t need to be killed to thwart the flu, wrote RFK Jr., who famously owns a pet emu, in the letter first reported by Rebel News.The ostriches should be preserved for long-term scientific study instead of culling or killing them, he said, echoing Catsimatidis’ stance.“Ostriches can live up to 50 years, providing the opportunity for future insights into immune longevity associated with the H5N1 virus,” Kennedy said in the letter co-signed by NIH Director Jay Bhattachary and FDA Co...