HALP! I just rescued a baby bird fallen from a tree and IDK what to do!!!

didn't have time to read every post

but from what I remember a vet telling my mother once when she ended up with some baby birds:

the vet said to not try to give them water or food without having any experience because you could drown them, the mother bird goes deep down into their throats with the food and if you don't get past the lungs they will suffocate

my mom took them to the vet

It probably needs to eat bugs. We have insectivore rearing mix here and mix it with ground beef.use tweezers to shove pieces down its gaping face hole

he was making cute little noises when he wakes up but he's not making them now. He keeps moving so much, I kept his box on the ground in case he escaped I didn't want him to fall far and I put a pillow under it so it would be soft too. But he stayed inside, he just rolls around a lot.

https://imgur.com/a/DmnlMwX

lol, we got plenty of those!

smashed boiled egg with a little water worked perfectly! Thanks again BBQ Boy!

This is so good to know, it's scary not being prepared but this time of year we find little babies out of the nest all the time.

Just need some eggs, heating pad and a wildlife center close by. Everyone should find where their center is and be prepared!

this

GLP is always such an odd mix of saints and demons.

BBQ Boy, you da man.



Thank you for helping the lil guy Chastity. And you have a great son btw.

If you touch it or bring it home it will most likely die.

If you can restore it to it's best without touching it with your hands and the mother does not reject it, maybe it'll live.

Otherwise it's going to die.

I know! I knew I could trust his advice! My little boy cried all night worried he would die! He was so happy! Thank You BBQ boy!!!

Here's some baby bird poop for good measure!

https://imgur.com/a/zUTQCXi

Trees were too tall to see a nest and he was on a piece of bubble wrap when my boy found him in his friends backyard. The little boys adoptive mom is 85 and she may have put him there not knowing what to do.

it will not work, the others will reject him. give him proteins, bugs, flies, keep him warm and touch him a lot, hopefully he will survive

Some successful grew up them

one last vid before he goes, his eyes are opening at the end.

https://imgur.com/a/Z91HOKh

I raised a baby Starling and beef baby food worked.

Yea you need some dull tweezers or a dropper

Personally I'd take it outside and whack it over the head.

The likelihood a thing that young surviving is low, without specialist knowledge of the diet (and of course the species).

I would guess a mixture of caterpillars, worms and grubs. Meal worms need their head squishing before feeding. But these things need variation in their diet. Do not constantly feed it the same thing over and over.

I watched a nature program that was studying a nesting bird. They had nest cameras set up everywhere. One of the parent bird died, the crew knew the young were unlikely to survive with only one provider. To prevent a wasted show, they provided easy access to various food (worms etc.) They were surprised how little the single parent bird took advantage of the easy access meals. They concluded that the bird better understood natural dietary needs of it's young and the small amount of free stuff was used to sustain itself.

Young birds diets alter as their body develops into a fledglings - be warned.

Q-TIP NOT TABLESPOON.

A linen lined cup or bowl so the little tyke can stay upright with it's legs under it is needed . Feed it with a flat narrow thin spoon like object . I always carve my own .

Keep it warm . over feeding is no good either . They are so vulnerable at that age . Pablum mashed boiled egg yoke is good .

Keep it clean .

If he was a starling I would have kept him.

He's safe at the wildlife center now! He's going to do even better now!! Thanks for all the help and support everyone!


I have a question for some of you, why did you think he was going to die, oh ye of little faith?

SAVING ONE OF THEM IS LIKE WALKING A TIGHTROPE..ONE SLIP..
LIKE MY SQUIRREL COMMENT ON PM...LOW TEMP, IMPROPUH NUTRITION, DROWN IN OWN LUNGS, ZERO SOCIALIZATION WITH OTHER BIRDS OR MOMMUH BOID...FED TOO LITTLE AS IT GROWS...
INSUFFICIENT FLUIDS/WATUH...IT COULD HAVE SURVIVED BUT HAD
AN UNDERDEVELOPED BRAIN..LIKE BIDEN...AND NEVER COULD HAVE
SURVIVED IF EVUH RELEASED INTO THE REAL WORLD OF NATURE. IF
IT CROAKS AT THE WL-CENTER...DONT TELL YOUR SON. CAPMAN. UH

i typed it up at the other bird place

Why ?

Animals don't love .

Yeah, i guess he could have died.

Oh my got! I could have kept him, he's a sparrow, invasive species. But I don't think the center will euthanize him, they only do that to a mute swan. I read but I'm going to call to make sure.


[link to www.eastvalleywildlife.org]

https://imgur.com/a/jDRtnOe

The bill should have been a dead giveaway for you and the size and feathering . I've raised a lot of sparrows over the years as well as corvids .

Love them all , thank you for caring and taking the time to help another one hit the air . Every one of them is a gift from god .

will they give it back? I heard sparrows can talk?

They call them an invasive species yet I have a different view of them . Habitat loss has cost the native stocks much more then the sparrows have .

With the loss of species to habitat destruction the available forage for the remaining stocks such as raptors falcons owls etc was so drastically reduced they to were in grave danger of extinction .

The English sparrow filled that void very well and now supplies much of the forage the remaining avian species need to simply exist . A trade off of sorts .

They serve a vital purpose here now and if they were lost we would see a rapid collapse of what is left . Starlings to at a lessor extent .

Puppy chow,kitten chow,soak to mash.You can mix in a few berries if you want.Refrigerate,but keep the small amount you feed at room temp.
Keep it warm,and feed it every time you walk by.Feed it every time it begs for food.
We raised robins and starlings the same way.

Some of us aren't selfish with our love enjoy loving people, animals and things that don't love us back. It's called agape. I would not enjoy a life where I only loved if I was loved back, sounds very cruel.

I would have thought robin too but the feathers were what lead me down the wrong bird identification path...

I love them all too!

I don't want the responsibility. I need to sleep at night! The starlings can talk but not the sparrows that I am aware of.