She cannot fly but is old enough to chirp and screech. Mom and Dad (bad father’s day—bad joke) cannot come down and bring her back to the nest. Should I feed her bread crumbs until she can fly???? This sounds crazy but I am serious–poor thing! Kids with stupid answers can proceed to next question.
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Tagged bad joke, bread crumbs, chirp, fly, mom and dad, screech, small bird, stupid answers
We found a baby bird out on the lawn and everytime I threw bread out it’d open it’s beak. I didn’t give it any. There are no trees around, but two adult birds but we can’t tell if they’re the parents because they won’t feed it. It ran across the road so my brother led it over there safely but it tried coming back to our side. W e put it back on the other side and all it does is sit there and chirp chirp chirp. What should I do, the adult birds are gone, i’m afraid it’ll get runover or starve.
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
Ok I have had one of my birds for a couple years now. I wanted her to breed with my male but he was very attached to me (actually would hump my hand) so he had no interest in her. Unfortunately he and my other female died from a bacteria brought in by a baby bird I tried to save (no contact but in the same room. I know I’m a horrible pet owner. I feel guilty every day) So since his death, after she went through antibiotics, I bought two more cockatiels. She seemed to really be hitting it off with one of them. They were doing the breeding chatter and everything. But she has suddenly bonded with me. I take them all out every day but she has become obsessed with me (like my male was). I have also been opening the nesting box every day so they’ll be used to me doing that and I think that it has just confused her even more. Now every time I walk into the room she runs up to the box and does her breeding chirp. And she now wants nothing to do with the male in the cage. They clean each other but that’s about it.
Sooo….my question is this… have I totally ruinned their chances of breeding? Or is there a way to get her less interested in me. I don’t want to stop socializing with them. Any thoughts?
Any suggestions on what to do? Was cleaning up the yard and a bird’s nest was dislocated so we had to move it. The baby birds aren’t old enough to chirp so the parents are flying all around looking for their babies but can’t find them. Should we feed the birds?
Guess it’s important to say we haven’t touched it with our bare hands – wore gloves the whole time. Hopefully the parents won’t reject them! And they are red robins, if that is helpful.
I go on youtube..Naked.. Go around busy places such as big box stores and I pretend I’m a bird! I go and peck and make bird sounds and when someone goes around my chips I chirp at them!” Screaming I’m a bird!” I then grab all the things from around the store and make myself a nest..naked..
I think my heart is in the right place. This okay?
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Tagged Bird, bird sounds, box, box stores, chips, chirp, Naked, okay, Screaming, someone, something, THIS, YouTube
