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Wild Baby Bird Care Instructions?

Posted on March 19, 2012 by admin| 5 Comments

My teen daughter (an aspiring Vet) found a very small newly hatched bird and since many other children had been around it, she decided to put it in a box and try to take care of it until we can take it to the bird sanctum tomorrow. We are wondering how to take care of it for now. Should we try to feed it? Should we keep it under a heating pad to keep it warm?

Please, any ideas would help for the duration of this little guy.
This is a baby-baby. We’re pretty sure it’s a Mockingbird. It has no feathers and if it senses something around, it opens its bright yellow beak to eat.

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Help! Am I doing enough for this baby bird?

Posted on February 26, 2012 by admin| 5 Comments

My across the street neighbor stole a baby bird that I am guessing only 2 or 3 days old I have been feeding it bread soaked in water and feeding it thorough a syringe (the reason i have it is because my mom took it from him to try to find the nest which apparently had been ripped up by my across the street neighbor) i am keeping the bird in an old shoe box inside of a metal crate (like one of the file crates with a whole bunch of holes in it) with a heating pad in the bottom for at night and a lamp above it for during the day. I was wondering if there is anything else i should be doing or what else i should know. O yea i have no clue what kind of bird it was

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HELP!!! 3 robbin eggs abandon?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin| 6 Comments

What should i do. there was a nest on our porch and after afout a little under a month (april) the mom left. We are having funckey weather and its snowing. I did not touch the nest but we put it into a box in my house and but a towl over it then a heating pad on medium. I dont want them to die. What do i do. How do i take care of them. If they hatch what do i do. I know little to nothing about birds.

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Morning Dove on my sidewalk?

Posted on May 20, 2011 by admin| 7 Comments

Last night my husband found a baby morning dove on our front patio. We put it back in the nest but the parent birds flew off and didn’t return until this morning. I put the baby in a box on a heating pad for the night and returned it to the nest this morning. To my surprise there was another baby on top of some bushes by my front door and one of the parents was there pretending to have a broken wing.

Later I checked on the nest and the baby I returned to the nest was on the patio again. An hour later both babies are under one of the parent birds in the middle of my sidewalk.

This isn’t a safe place. I live near an open space with snakes and many feral cats. Is there a way to get them all some place safer?
Thanks for the answers. I can’t move them to my back yard because I have two dogs. I have put up a sign asking people not to use the sidewalk up to my front door. The babies are under a bush with one of the parents. I will hope for the best.

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I found a baby bird and he had no fethers what can i feed him? Is baby food ok?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by admin| 13 Comments

I dont really know what to do, so i put him in a small box with a heating pad on low. And I have baby ceral single grain cereal. Is that ok to feed him for now, I dont get paid until tuesday.
It is also 10:00 pm at night i just want him to pull through the night!
I dont even know what kind of bird it is. I just dont want him to die

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my cat brought a baby bird in the house?

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

my cat brought a baby bird inside the house, the bird is very young. i took it outside to look for the nest but there was not one in site. it is late and all the animal hospitals around me are not open and wont be open till monday because of memorial day weekend. i put it in a box with an old clean sock and tissues with a heating pad underneath it. i need to know how to take care of it. i have mashed up a worm and put it in some water and fed the bird it through a tube, but is there anything else i can do?

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Keeping baby birds warm?

Posted on October 30, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I’m trying to raise some baby blackbirds that have fallen out of their nest. The mom built the nest in the wall of my barn. The babies couldn’t stay in it, I’ve tried putting them back several times and they fall again. One died from the fall onto a concrete floor. I took the other three this morning. I’ve been feeding them every hour and they seem to be doing well. Every time I feed them I give them two hot water bottles. I’m worried about them getting too cold over night in the house with the AC on. They are nestled together in some straw on one side of the box with a hot water bottle on each side. Would it be ok to wrap a heating pad in a wash cloth and put it on the other side of the box, leaving it on a low setting overnight?

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