Found a bird, olive back, yellow belly, long beak, what do I feed it?
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How to take care of a baby bird?
I found a baby bird who fell from his nest (way to high for me to put him back in) and I followed a recipe I found on Internet on how to feed him (boiled meet, grains, baby formula = blended) and I use a eye drop bottle to put it in his beak (it works great). Obviously after 3 days he’s trying to get out the big box I put him in. I don’t know how he will do out on his own (food wise). Do you think the SPCA will take him? (I call but they don’t answer) Thanks!
I have what we think is a fledgeling sparrow on the back patio. Should we attempt ot feed it? How? What?
This is a wild bird, not a pet. The small bird is two toned, with darker top and lighter belly. It has a relatively small beak with a patch of yellowish skin on either side of the beak under its eyes. It seems fully feathered, with a few pin feathers at its throat. It isn’t obviously injured, but it doesn’t appear to be able to fly.
It survived the first night in a box (we found it late last night), but we tried to return it to a nest first thing this morning. It immediately hopped out of the nest, and before long was stranded on the ground again. We’ve since decided that the nest we thought it was out of is probably a different species – it’s an oriel nest – and all the other nests are far too high for us to reach to return him.
I might add that we are in West Texas, and about 50 miles from a pet store that might sell meal worms.
Other than letting nature take its course, is there anything we can do to help the bird survive?
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Tagged back, beak, belly, Bird, Feed, fledgeling, fly, patch, patio, pet, pin feathers, small bird, sparrow, wild bird, yellowish, yellowish skin
I have a dieing baby starling, Help?!?!?
We had a nest inside the metal plastic where our roof hangs over. Well today got really hot really fast, we found one on the porch already dead, another that looked like it was trying to get out, that also died. I went in and pulled the plastic down and it was so hot, and there was still one that was alive and not looking good. I got gloves and got her and placed it in a box, I called the humane society then after calling 5 other people finally got a wild bird facility but they are an hour away and were closing in less than an hour. I can take it tomorrow after work but am afraid of it dieing before then. I went to sparlingtalk.com like the lady told me and have been giving it little drops of gatorade on its beak for rehydration, it is moving more, but still worried. Plus I gave it a little water, before I found out I couldn’t, but it threw up right after. I am afraid I may have done more damage. Right now all it is doing is what looks like to me sleeping, I just keep giving it a couple of drops hoping something will happen. Any ideas, what can I do to help the bird till tomorrow or do you think it just might be a lost cause.
also, have a heating pad under it, at low with a blanket in between the box and pad (thin box) and it covering the top, I read that it has to be 85 to 90 degrees.
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Tagged beak, gatorade, gloves, humane society, little water, porch, rehydration, wild bird
are my lovebirds’ eggs fertile?
my lovebird, tiki, was put in a cage with 2 others that i have. the other 2 are siblings. at first they fought, but then one of the 2 mated with Tiki 2 times, and the other one stayed in a tunnel – and wouldn’t come out. the next morning, i separated them again because tiki had some blood on her beak. it has been a few weeks since this happened, and she has laid 3 eggs about 1-2 weeks ago. she is sitting on them in her nest box and she doesn’t have a pair. the problem is, i cant tell the 2 lovebirds apart so i cant just take one out for tiki. could the eggs be fertile? can i put the 3 birds back together? is it bad to have a lovebird alone in a cage, sitting on eggs?
thanks.
bottom of cage behavior?
i have recently aquired a pair of peach faced lovebirds that are thought to be a year old. they are very happy with each other, feed and groom each other. question is: they love to be on the bottom of the cage chewing up newspaper and then hiding under it. also, one of them likes to roll paper up under itself (even folds a paper towel if I put it in the cage). the bird rolls the paper with its beak, stuffs it under himself, and them rocks back and forth on it. is this the male or the femal? is this behavior “O>K>”?? thanxs.
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Tagged beak, behavior, bottom, cage, Feed, femal, groom, pair, paper, paper towel, peach, peach faced lovebirds, question, year
are my budgies boy and a girl?
i have been looking all over the websites and i think its a boy and a girl here’s a video the first bird the blue it above the beak is dark blue and the other bird is a Lite-ishy blue and i was kinda hoping that IF they are boy and girl tell me all you can about how they can have babies ? what Size cadge i need and how big should the nesting box be? and where can i get one or what could i use for one
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Tagged babies, beak, Bird, box, boy, boy and a girl, dark blue, first bird, girl, kinda, Lite-ishy, size, video