The mom is alive but just lays with the eggs. We have seen the male go in the vent (we assume to feed her) but we can’t have the nest in the vent. I don’t know if there is a place that I can take them for a rescue, or what to feed her….. I just don’t want to let them die.
In Oregon it is legal to remove the nests of house sparrows, by the way. And I know how to secure it after they are out- that is not my question.
I live in Boston. I have a mourning dove 3 weeks ago build a nest on my airconditioner. The male and female were a great mom and dad. They took turns sitting on and feeding the baby birds for the past week. I thought there were 3 in there, but when I looked today..only two. The mommy dove was on them all day until about 2 this afternoon when I saw her fly off. She is still not back. The 2 baby birds are up there snuggled together and are breathing. Will the mommy come back? I had a birdfeeder on my deck and she was eating the seed today. I am concerned about the babies, but don’t want to touch them in case she comes back. I don’t know why they would take off all of a sudden. There are not any predators as they are on a 3rd story AC and sheltered by the roof overhang.
Any suggestions or help would be great!
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I found a bird, must have been young but it had all its feathers and must have fallen from the nest.. I read that mommy birds will kick their young out of the nest sometimes if there is something wrong with them and let it die instead of wasting time feeding them…
Anyway I took it put it in a shoe box on top of sum stockings to keep it wamr and it seemed content.. it wasn’t hard ot catch either and when i pet it, it would close its eyes and seem very calm.. I fed it organic apple blueberry sauce and tried to give it bread but it didnt want the bread… It seemed fine before I went to bed.. It slept all night and when i woke up i woke it up to try to feed it but it wouldnt take the berry mush i had made for it (since the parents regurgitate food usually, which i tried to recreate)
since it wouldnt eat I left it and was going to take it to a rehabilitator or try to see if the mom would come to the place where I found it, but when i got back about 3 hours later it had died.
DO you think it was just sick or did I do something wrong? Im really sad cos I get attached to animals very easily.
It’s legs were broken, it couldn’t even walk, plus it was next to my school’s library and I live on a small campus.
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I hvae a bright blue egg, i have been heating it on a heating pad. Is it true that heating pads will cause hatchlings to have some type of deformity? I have been candling it, the light from the flashlight stimulates it to move. I can see veins, and most of the egg is dark and hard to see through unless the chick wiggles around to a different position. How many days before you think it hatches? Should i lower the temperature of the heating pad a few days before it hatches, or keep it the same? I know what to feed the chick, mashed up earthworms. I need as much information on what i have to do to be a prper mommy bird when the egg starts to hatch, any websites with info?
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so i have this big box to hold my hose in and i left it open like only a crack and then i went looking for something and when i opened it up there was a little birds nest and in it 6 little eggs about an 1 inch big and about 1 inch on the side they arelike a light pink with alot of little speckles and on the rounded end of the eggs it is like kinda purple…. my brother my mistake knocked one egg out of the nest and then he put it back….and i did see the mom come back a couple times but now i dont see her it been about 40 min. and i havnt seen her yet…shee is probly still around but i am scared that because my brother touched her egg that she wont come back…and does any one know what kind of bird she is….little pink eggs and she is little herself a little bigger then a humming bird and she flys fast she is like gray and brown….i live in MA. what kind of bird id she and is she going to come back….P.S. she might be like eating or something but idk what to do or what kind she is.
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the problem i am having is that i am trying to find this one childrens book. i must have lost it moving or something. well in this book this girl and her younger sister are on this boat. on this boat there are tropical birds and plants i think she got some of her food from the plants and fished for the rest of her supper. i remember her feeding her younger sister and taking care of her. kinda like playing mommy. then this storm ends up hitting and she is trying to bring the boat out of it. i am pretty sure that the next thing you know she is back in her own bed at home. if anyone out there knows what book i am talking about please if you would help me. i remember reading it when i was little and now that i am going to have a little one of my own i would love to read it to him. any help would be great! thanks
i know that it is a little book, something you read to a young child
My husband and I just adopted 2 cute little sugar gliders! One girl and one boy, they are almost a year old. They came from below standard living conditions, they’re cage was a very tiny little bird cage and they were never really taken out. They were only fed quiko sugar glider food and thats about it. Even though they werent played with they are somewhat tame and eat fruit out of our hands and don’t crab too much. I just wanted to ask the experianced glider mommy and dadys out there afew questions;
1.The cage smells awful!Theyre poo is caked to the side of the cage, we can’t seem to get it off.Whats a safe way to clean it?
2.Is the quicko food ok?What else should we feed them,when and how much?
3.We had them out of their cage last night and they would climb on our hands and bite us.They even drew blood on my thumb. How do we bond w/older gliders and will they always bite people they don’t know?
4.What do u recomend as a cage liner? They were using kitty liter.
Thanks!!
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