I found a baby bird and have tried to call local places but cannot find anyone at this time that would take it, so now I would like to know what should I feed it, how often and how much…this bird is able to stand and hop has feathers but cannot fly yet and is still a little unsteady at times. the birds size full grown is bigger than a sparrow but smaller than a pigeon. not sure of the breed yet.
I’ve been feeding him/her millet. The bird rolls over occasionally and doesn’t seem to flap his wings. Any Ideas on how to help this little one?
The bird looks big enough to fly. The bird was on the ground at the school where my wife teaches for a couple of days before the students brought the bird to my wife. He jumps around quite a bit (I have the little guy in a box with water and shredded paper). In addition to the millet (which I just removed from the box, based on your kind responses) I fed him ‘extra’ bird formula that I mix with some water and feed with a syringe). It’s daylight now so I have the box opened out on the porch). I did the same thing yesterday, bringing the box & bird in after the sun had set). I’m having trouble finding a bird sanctuary where I live near Pasadena California, so if anyone know of a place I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Stoke
It was wet and cold. There are a bunch of trees out there and it’s very difficult to spot a nest, if there is one, so what I’ve decided so far is to keep it until it is strong enough to be by itself. I’m not a complete ignorant about the animal kingdom, but still I would like to get some more information from personal experiences about sparrows and how to pet them or just keep them alive. I have helped other birds before but not that small. I’m going to try to find the nest, or the mother. How to feed the bird would be a good start. Thanks and please answer this if you really know what you are talking about, if not, go make some points somewhere else.
Hello?!!! found it in a parking lot?!! There is a car parked right now where I found it. Can it fly or whatever…didn’t seem to because it was just there all wet and it didn’t even try to fly away. As far as I know, some birds can’t fly with their feathers wet…and it’s illegal…ok …what are they going to do? give me a fine or put me in jail cause I was trying to help an animal? screw that!!
Fuck that bird!! I killed it!! because I found out that the bird had a cut on its back and when I put some Scilocaine to mitigate the pain, maggots started to crawl out the wound!!! f’ing disgusting!! so I chopped its head off to end its pain!! Now I want to fumigate the whole house!! I’m so grossed out, I don’t even want to sleep in my room!!
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A nest of house sparrows was knocked over my a neighbors cat. The mom and most of the babies were killed.
Two of the babies lived, but one was severely injured so we killed it.
There’s one baby left and he/she is doing okay. We fed it dog food soaked in water a few times.
What else should we be feeding it? I don’t have any way to get get a petstore or do I have the money for the bird formulas.
We have it in a cardboard box with a heat lamp.
And before anyone mentions this, House Sparrows are NOT PROTECTED BY ANY LAWS.
a sparrow and her mate are nesting in a potted plant outside our door. The mother is very tiny, so we were shocked to see she had laid seven eggs. It doesn’t look all of those could even fit inside of her. Anyway, today when we peeked in the nest, she had rolled one of the eggs out of the nest into dirt. Is she trying to kill one of the eggs because there will be too many birds to feed? Should we return it to the nest? Should we try to raise it, if it’s going to die anyway?
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Well, yesterday, my brother & I rescued a baby sparrow from certain death. He (I suppose it’s a he) and his sibling fell out of the nest, which was in our neighbor’s vent, and were lying in the grass, completely exposed to sunlight. The sibling died shortly after the fall, but the other one is still alive! We sat him in a cardboard box lined with paper towels & a few small sprigs of grass & wired the box to a bush near the nest as the wildlife rehabilitator that we contacted said to do. We left it there for about a quarter of the day yesterday, all last night, and the mother still has not come back. Can you please give me the approximate period of time that it takes for a mother bird to find her baby?
& whether you can or can’t answer the question, please pray for the little bird.
Also, he is chirping; it is a quiet chirp, but a chirp nonetheless. His eyes are not open & he has no feathers, so I know that he is a nestling. Birds have an undeveloped sense of smell, so the mother most likely will not smell our human scents on him.
The baby is still outside in the box & when I checked on it about an hour ago, it’s chirping is louder, he is able to stretch his neck out completely, his eyes are opening a bit, he’s moving more, he’s excreted waste, & my brother & his friend said they saw a sparrow fly out of the bush where the baby is! This may be the mother!
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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