friend found the bird in her backyard, we think it’s a northern flicker possibly a sapsucker. it has some feathers but not all. she has it n a cardboard box with branch to stand on. shes feeding it some sort of mush. what should we do?
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baby woodpecker info please? anybody have experience with raising them?
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Found a bird with broken leg?
This morining I was getting in my car and found a bird in the grass floppin around with ants all over him.So I brought him inside and got the ants off of him and made like a little nest out of hay and and got a cardboard box and put in inside of it then got a piece of cardboard and put it over the box like a roof.so he would have some shade,then gave him some water and wild bird food.I dont know what kind he is but he is small and black.I culdnt just leave him there so ants could eat him.So what else can I do to make sure he survives and his leg gets better?Thanks in advance.
Yeah It turned out he was a grey catbird,and he died,dont know how he was eating and even started flying a little bit off the ground.But then I walked outside for not even 5min.And when I came back he wasnt breathing anymore but his eyes where still open.But at least I tryed.Thanks everyone who ansered.
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it found some baby birds, all dead but one :(?
i was opening my shed today and i found that a nest next to my shed had been ripped off and the baby birds inside were thrown out on the ground, all were dead (there were 4 of them all together) but one, the 1 that is alive is in a cardboard box that has an old birds nest from a previouse cat attack, the nest is all together, the bird is sitting inside, with a heatlamp shining on the side of the nest to warm it up, not directly on it, but my question is how often should i feed it? and what? i wound some worms in my backyard and fed it 3 of them, just little tiny ones, about 1-1.5 in long, it gobbled those up strait away. then it pooped in my hand. (i washed my hands with soap befor and after i touched the bird thank you). the bird seems active, it almost stood up, rolled around onmy hand, shook its head and opend its eyes. so what should i feed it and how often? and yes i know its tecnically “illegal” to care for a wild bird.
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I found a baby bird! Help! What to do?
So, my aunt found this baby bird yesterday evening on the ground. It was getting eaten by ants. She brought it inside and made a nest for him with a small cardboard box and some tissue with a warm water bottle underneath. We have determined that the nest is somewhere in this very tall tree above where we found the bird. So, the bird is tiny tiny. Maybe an inch and a half long. He is fuzzy bluish with small feathers only on his wings. His eyes aren’t open yet. So he’s probably a couple days old. He only makes a barely audible chirp when he opens his mouth to be fed. We have been feeding him watery oatmeal bits and warm soaked chopped up cat food by tweezers. We do this about every 25 minutes. He has been pooping too. Through the night we kept him in the warmest room in the house with a hat over the box. Today, we’ve been keeping him up on this shelf thing on the porch with the hat still. We tried calling anyone we could look up, but no answer. We live near Fayetteville, NC. So my question is, what things could I do to help this baby bird more? Advice please? Thanks!! Also, any name suggestions? I don’t know the sex yet, but a cute name could go either way. He seems like a boy to me. =)
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I found a baby bird? Help?
So, my aunt found this baby bird yesterday evening on the ground. It was getting eaten by ants. She brought it inside and made a nest for him with a small cardboard box and some tissue with a warm water bottle underneath. We have determined that the nest is somewhere in this very tall tree above where we found the bird. So, the bird is tiny tiny. Maybe an inch and a half long. He is fuzzy bluish with small feathers only on his wings. His eyes aren’t open yet. He only makes a barely audible chirp when he opens his mouth to be fed. We have been feeding him watery oatmeal bits and warm soaked chopped up cat food by tweezers. We do this about every 25 minutes. He has been pooping too. Through the night we kept him in the warmest room in the house with a hat over the box. Today, we’ve been keeping him up on this shelf thing on the porch with the hat still. We tried calling anyone we could look up, but no answer. We live near Fayetteville, NC. So my question is, what things could I do to help this baby bird more? Advice please? Thanks!!
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HELP! BABY ROBIN FELL OUT OF NEST AND GOT RAIND ON?
okay so theres a baby robin in my backyard that fell from the nest. i was going to leave it be but we had a terrible storm and the baby robin got all wet and im afraid it will freeze to death in the night. the mother is close by watching it and its very close to the nest, and ive even watched the mother feed it. but my biggest concern is that a cat or fox will come in the night and kill it. my options are that i can try to pick it back up with fresh gloves that wouldn’t leave a scent and put the bird back in its nest, or i could put it in a cardboard box and bring it in for the night. but i dont know what i should do. help!
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How do I care for a baby bird?
While i was waiting for my mom to pick me up from youth group I found a baby bird with no feathers. It looked like it was recently hatched. I thought it was dead because it was on the steps on its back but when i touched it it moved. So I brought it home,(after i looked for the nest, not successful) and put it in a cardboard box on toilet paper under a heat lamp. That was Wednesday and it has now been 3 days and it is very frisky. I am feeding it small pieces of worms, but what else should i feed it? And what would b the best way to water it? From a syringe? Is there anything else i could do to help it grow and not die. I know baby birds are hard to hand raise and most die, but I wanna try. Please no mean comments or anything, only helpful tips. Thanks!
Rachael – it was getting dark and it is a tiny feather-less fledgling on concrete steps on its back. I doubt it’s mother was coming for it.
but don’t mothers feed them worms? And i can’t seem to find info on fledglings and what kind it is! :O
oops i meant hatching 
do i use wet dog food or dry? is cat food alright to?
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