Question:The little bird drinks water from a rubber, kitchen-syringe thingie. The mushed up Wheat Thins in water didn't do the trick. Before I chop up this worm, is it worth it?
If I took a guess, I'd say the bird could be a starling. It's too big to be a sparrow, and I see young Robins and Grackles out and about with their moms. This little fellow is dark and sort of big, but still losing down and just developing feathers. He doesn't move around much at all, and he has a few small abrasions from the hammering he was taking from the blue jays. Mostly, I let him rest and feed him water.
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When I was a kid I would raise baby birds that I found fallen from nests. I fed the featherless ones room temperature bread soaked in egg yolk. I fed them with tweezers. as they started getting feathers I started getting bugs and chopping up worms. It is a never ending process but they can survive. The hard part is when they are ready to leave the nest. Birds continue to care for their babies even after they leave the nest. For awhile the parent will continue to feed the baby and will take them around to the good eating spots. I often lost my babies at this point as they would drown in a bird bath or just sit in the tree out back and not move. They end up getting eaten anyway or don't know what to do once freed. So, keep him for his life or you should have let him get eaten.
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We would feed them white bread that had been soaked in milk, success was very hit or miss though.
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You are doing a great job,carry on,feed him the worms on a pair of plastic or rubber tweezers.Water should be body temp,with a tiny amount of glucose every 2-3 days for extra energy .You are now his Parent. Congratulations.Keep us posted.Let him take the water at his own pace so he doesn't choke.
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i would feed him worms, but not any rice or fruit. Then I would contact the local conservation agency and ask them
Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.
They have the training to care for sick, injured and orphaned wild animals.
Do not attempt to care for this bird yourself. If you do not have the proper training, you can do more harm than good, and getting formulas and advice on the internet is a poor substitute for real training.
Do not feed bread, it has no real nutritional value, and bread and milk both contain things that are difficult for baby birds to digest properly. Do not give water. Baby birds can aspirate and die. They get their liquids from their food.
I used to raise baby birds for a vet who was a licensed wildlife rehabber. I fed them high quality canned kitten food (like Iams, Eukaneuba, Science Diet, etc.) until they were big enough to start learning to catch bugs. I had the highest success rate of anyone who'd ever done it for him.
Feed small chunks of the canned kitten food with tweezers, every 2 - 3 hours. After a while the bird will learn to eat the food from a dish.
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