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I found a wild baby bird and it just died, does anyone know why?
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13 Responses to I found a wild baby bird and it just died, does anyone know why?
your not suppose to touch baby birds. you murder.
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i didnt read all u worte but maby it had the bird flu
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Perhaps the mother sensed that the youngster was unhealthy or a runt hence her attempts to evict it. She may have been trying to focus her energy on raising the remaining young.
In a case like that it is usually best to let nature take its course.
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it’s heart stopped
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maybe coz it was not in its usual habitat sorry
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Birds can catch diseases without people even knowing. The diseases will attack quickly, and the bird will get ill fast before you know whats happening. I have raised chickens for my
4-H group and we had to learn all about chicken diseases.
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I agree that he may have been unhealthy to begin with. I have also heard that baby birds need to eat just about once an hour or more. It’s hard for humans to keep up with that sort of a pace regardless of intention. I had a baby bird die on me when I was a kid. There’s just nothing you can do.
Actually, there may be. Check out your local animal shelter or humane society online and see if you can adopt an unwanted bird. I spend a lot of time when I was looking on there for my perfect dog and I saw people had given up everything from ferretts to goats to lizards. You probably could rescue a bird in this manner and really help a bird and get a friend at the same time.
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There’s a whole list of possible causes. One is that it caught a bacterial infection from its mom/chicks/from the food it ate/etc etc etc. Sometimes things can be passed via clothes, especially if you passed through a pet store. It could have had an internal deformity that was causing it to be rejected by its mom because it wasn’t acting or sounding normal. Sometimes food will go down the wrong tube and although it didn’t suffocate it could have caused an infection which made it sick. It could have had gape worms. Could have had air sac problems (especially if it was wheezing!). The list goes on. It’s pretty depressing when you look through the possible causes. The only real way of knowing is to have a vet do a necropsy which is &^%$ing expensive and that’s just to have the vet cut ‘em up and take a peek!
**hugs** I am sorry to hear about your loss. The bird sounded like a real charmer
Long time bird breeder and bird slave. Long time member of my local parrot club.
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something about if a human touches a baby bird it is no longer wanted…..and plus the food you was feeding him was a big no no ….i know you meant well..but that wasnt a good idea
damn thats specisms …damn racist birds
Long time bird breeder and bird slave. Long time member of my local parrot club.
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you may have needed to give him gravel…and get that you fed a bird scrambled eggs….dont you know mad animal disease is caused from eating the brain of your own spieces? you fed it a bird embryo…
anyway it may also have been injured or ill and the mom said shoo…thats natures way they killl the weak…
Long time bird breeder and bird slave. Long time member of my local parrot club.
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firstly i will say that the comments regarding bird flue are silly ideas, and obviously guesses made without knowing the facts.
as for mad animal disease and eating embryos etc, most hens that lay eggs are not fertile as they have not seen a cockeral so reject that idea as plain silly for that reason, and also if the egg was fertile then nothing would develope unless incubation was started so another reason to reject that idea
blackbirds eat insects etc so you would have been berret off getting some insectavarious feed for it, or egg biscuit feed, but hey you wasnt to know so dont beat yourself up about it.
it sounds like the chick was possbly already ill as you sound like you found it out of the nest originally so i suspect that there was something wrong with it in the first place.
the wheezing noise may have been for several reasons, but it sounds like it was simply going “light” as we bird owners call it and to be honest no amount of care would have stopped this happening.
you did what you thought was right at the time and that is no reason for others to call you names. just take it as a learning experience
used to bred canaries, finches and parrots as well as poultry etc
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First, you did exactly the right thing in trying to put the baby back into the nest. It is absolutely not true that a mother bird will reject the baby if it has been handled.
Second, you did absolutely the wrong thing by taking the baby home. If the mother was pushing the baby out of the nest, it was for one of two reasons. Either she sensed that there was something wrong with it, and it was going to die no matter what you tried to do for it, or it was a fledgling.
You said it was about 2-3 weeks old. Most blackbird species (Brewers, Red Winged, Rusty, Yellow Headed), common grackles and brown headed cowbirds fledge (leave the nest) by 2 weeks of age.
A baby bird fledges (leaves the nest) a few days before it can fly. It hops around on the ground and climbs low branches until its wings are strong enough for flight. The parents continue to feed the fledglings until they can take care of themselves. If this was a fledgling, you should have left it where it was.
If it was a sick baby, you needed to contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. For future reference, you can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm
These people have the training and the resources to care for sick, injured and orphaned wild animals. They have the training and resources to diagnose illnesses and provide treatment. They also have the training to feed the animal properly for the specific nutritional needs of the species.
It is always foolish for a person to try to care for a wild animal themselves. First, in the US, it is illegal to keep most types of native wild species, even for a short time, without the proper permits. Second, without the proper training, youcan do more harm than good. I like the way this website explains it: “First of all, there are federal and state laws that prohibit keeping wild birds. And there are so many important but subtle elements to raising a wild bird that the job is only legally entrusted to licensed rehabilitators. Many well-meaning people raise baby birds or rescue birds from cats or after accidents, and sometimes they don’t realize that the bird in their care is suffering from a serious dietary deficiency. Some of the problems aren’t apparent to untrained people, but can cause death, or make the bird less likely to evade predators or to survive harsh natural weather conditions.”
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/FAQBabies.html
Next time, trust the mother bird to know what is best, or find a trained, licensed professional to entrust with the care of the wild animal.
former volunteer – Avian Rehabilitation Center
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i think that it didnt have food or water at the time or had a dises
former volunteer – Avian Rehabilitation Center
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