He has most of his feathers but cannot perch or fly yet. He flaps his wings a whole lot and tries to crawl. He eats well, i feed him moist cat food.
What other foods are better?
Is his breathing normal? If not, what do i do?
Is the flapping of wings normal?
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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Tagged ants, baby bird, cardboard box, cat food, chirp, couple days, cute name, fayetteville nc, feathers, oatmeal, porch, tweezers, warm water, water bottle, wings, yesterday evening
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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Tagged ants, baby bird, cardboard box, cat food, chirp, fayetteville nc, feathers, oatmeal, porch, tweezers, warm water, water bottle, wings, yesterday evening
I’ve been taking care of some baby birds (Sparrows to be exact) and I know they are naturally insectivorous. I’ve been feeding them moistened cat food and some crickets, and now that they’re getting older, I’d like to switch them to a food that woint spoil if I leave it out for them. I looked at all the adult bird foods, but the protein percent isn’t high enough. However, a package of Bearded Dragon pellet food I found has a very high protein percentage and seems safe for the birds to eat. Would this be a suitable diet, so long as I supplemented it with other seeds and fruits?
P.S. Please do not get all “legal” on me for keeping sparrows. If you do your research, they are not native species and I don’t need a permit to foster them. So if you don’t have something helpful to say, pick on someone else. I’ve had too many people bash me for not having a permit.
I found a food very suitable for insectivorous birds. I ordered it, it will come from Italy, and I no longer need any responses. It IS a house sparrow, and I DON’T need a permit. Thanks for not beleiving me once again. Trust me, I won’t be asking any more questions about my birds from now on sice everyone thinks I have no idea what I’m doing.
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Tagged adult, adult bird, baby, baby birds, bearded dragon, Bird, bird foods, birds sparrows, care, cat, cat food, crickets, dragon, Food, fruits, high protein, insectivorous bird, lizard, pellets, protein, seeds, sparrows, suitable diet, woint
There are local people feeding these animals. Feral cats also eat these intentional hand outs. ( opened cans of cat food. ) Problem is all of these precdators also eat baby rabbits and ground nesting birds such as pheasant, quail and .ruffed grouse. As a result, there are no baby bunnies or baby pheasants, quail or ruffed grouse… This is a semi rural area that still has a lot of woods and fields left, but no small wild animals except the aggressive, undesirable ones, who are also carriers of rabies.
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Tagged baby bunnies, baby rabbits, cans, cat food, cats, food problem, ground nesting birds, grouse, municipal ordinance, pheasant, pheasants, quail, rabbits, rabies, raccoons, rural area, skunks, wild animals
A few hours ago, I heard birds chirping really loud, i went outside to see what was up and saw 2 birds looking directly at a bush, i looked at the bush and was suprised to a baby bird, based on what I saw I assumed the bird fell out of its nest ( the nest was on the roof of my house, i know because ocasionally i’d see those 2 birds fly up there ) and the 2 birds are trying to figure how to get the baby back up there, i felt real bad for the bird but went back inside, about 2 hours later i noticed there wasnt any more chirping outside, so i went outside and couldn’t find those 2 birds anywhere but I did find the baby bird still in the bush, i didnt know wat to do, if i left it inside the bush it was likely to be cat food. I thought for a while about what to do… I got a shoe box with 2 holes in it, some hamster bedding, and then put the hamster bedding inside the box, i then went to the sink got a really really small glass bowl ( small enough so the bird could drink out of it ) and filled it with water, I picked up the bird and put it in the shoe box, brought the box inside my house and now here i am, I tryd to spoon feed it water ( well i guess i mean spoon drink it ) but it wouldn’t take it, it just sits there all scared and shakey, if i put my hand over the box it’ll pull its head back into its body and its wings will come towards my hand just a little bit. I have no clue what to do, I’m probably gonna take it to an animal shelter. What to do??
I just read recently on a website that a baby bird outside of its nest is considered a fledgling, falling out of its nest on purpose to keep away from predators like hawks or climbing cats and being fed by their parents who will soon come back and keep feeding it for a few weeks until it is able to hunt for food its self and be on its own… i feel ive done the wrong thing. I also read that once human hands have touched it, the parents will never accept it again. Is any of this misleading information? Should I tomorrow take it to a shelter, or bring it back to the bush where it could still be cat food?
to first poster: I can’t put it back in its nest, its to far up on my house and I can’t get a ladder to climb.
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Tagged 2 birds, animal shelter, baby, baby bird, bedding, Bird, birds chirping, box, bush, cat food, clue, fly, glass bowl, Hamster, holes, house, little bit, nest, saw 2, shoe, shoe box, spoon, water, wings
I supplement her diet with nuts, vegetables and fruit (lettuce, celery, grapes, apples) and even some cat food since I’ve read that hamsters are NOT vegetarians. Is all this enough or do I absolutely have to buy hamster food?
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Tagged apples, Bird, bird seed, cat, cat food, celery, diet, Food, fruit, grapes, Hamster, hamsters, lettuce, nuts, seed, supplement, vegetables, vegetarians
