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| Natalie |
 Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 11:41 pm |
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A friend of mine just found a bird's nest which had fallen from a tree
during a thunderstorm. It contained a single baby bird, which can
best be described as "small" and "brown." It is about sparrow sized,
with a yellow, wide beak (in a basic baby bird sort of shape,) yellow
legs, black eyes, dark mask. Definately not fledged yet, but fully
covered in feathers.
The nest is large, made mostly of grasses, but containing lots of
interesting stuff- bits of cloth and shiny fabric, various plastics,
fake flowers, crow's feathers. The cup is about 4-5 inches accross
and very deep inside the nest. When it was found, the nest was sort
of folded over, so that the cup was completely covered. Whether this
is part of the design, or a product of the fall from the origninal
resting place, I do not know.
The nest was discovered in a suburban area in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Another fallen nest, containing one egg, was discovered near it, but I
did not see it, and it was not described to me. This one was placed
back in the tree. I thought this might be useful info, in case there
is a communally nesting bird matching this description.
My friend was unable to keep the bird, as she is about to take a long
road trip to her home state. She asked me to take care of it. It and
the nest are currently in a cardboard box, in a dark, quiet room. It
has not made a sound since I have seen it.
It'd be nice to know what to feed it, how often, etc. I have taken in
injured baby animals before, and have not had huge success keeping
them alive. I'd like to get this one right.
Thank you for your insight :)
Natalie |
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| Al Johnston |
| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:16 am |
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Hi Natalie,
Ideally, you should turn the nestling over to a rehabber. However, if
one is not available you could try feeding it a high protein cat food like
Science Diet. Moisten the little pellets in water until there're soft and
present them to the nestling (ex nestling, really). Don't try to get it to
take any water --- it could choke! Oh, by the way, I believe the bird is a
cedar waxwing. A friend successfully raised one after it fell from it's
nest. I believe she also fed it crushed berries as well but I'll confirm
this and post later. Good luck.
Al
"Natalie" <n-berg@cornellcollege.edu> wrote in message
news:4805e9eb.0405312141.6cad2d92@posting.google.com...
Quote: A friend of mine just found a bird's nest which had fallen from a tree
during a thunderstorm. It contained a single baby bird, which can
best be described as "small" and "brown." It is about sparrow sized,
with a yellow, wide beak (in a basic baby bird sort of shape,) yellow
legs, black eyes, dark mask. Definately not fledged yet, but fully
covered in feathers.
The nest is large, made mostly of grasses, but containing lots of
interesting stuff- bits of cloth and shiny fabric, various plastics,
fake flowers, crow's feathers. The cup is about 4-5 inches accross
and very deep inside the nest. When it was found, the nest was sort
of folded over, so that the cup was completely covered. Whether this
is part of the design, or a product of the fall from the origninal
resting place, I do not know.
The nest was discovered in a suburban area in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Another fallen nest, containing one egg, was discovered near it, but I
did not see it, and it was not described to me. This one was placed
back in the tree. I thought this might be useful info, in case there
is a communally nesting bird matching this description.
My friend was unable to keep the bird, as she is about to take a long
road trip to her home state. She asked me to take care of it. It and
the nest are currently in a cardboard box, in a dark, quiet room. It
has not made a sound since I have seen it.
It'd be nice to know what to feed it, how often, etc. I have taken in
injured baby animals before, and have not had huge success keeping
them alive. I'd like to get this one right.
Thank you for your insight :)
Natalie |
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| Al Johnston |
| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:23 am |
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Hi again, Natalie,
I just checked with my friend and she fed it canned cat food (not sure
what brand) and later on, berries that she picked around her property. In
the final days before release, they kept it outside, a few hours at a time,
in a bird cage so it could absorb the sounds and sights of the out of doors.
After release it would continue to fly to her for a treat but eventually it
appeared to have successfully made the transition to the wild. I must add
that it was a real important part of her life for a brief period of time.
Al
"Al Johnston" <ajjohnston@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:6s_uc.16926$Hn.539268@news20.bellglobal.com...
Quote: Hi Natalie,
Ideally, you should turn the nestling over to a rehabber. However, if
one is not available you could try feeding it a high protein cat food like
Science Diet. Moisten the little pellets in water until there're soft and
present them to the nestling (ex nestling, really). Don't try to get it to
take any water --- it could choke! Oh, by the way, I believe the bird is a
cedar waxwing. A friend successfully raised one after it fell from it's
nest. I believe she also fed it crushed berries as well but I'll confirm
this and post later. Good luck.
Al
"Natalie" <n-berg@cornellcollege.edu> wrote in message
news:4805e9eb.0405312141.6cad2d92@posting.google.com...
A friend of mine just found a bird's nest which had fallen from a tree
during a thunderstorm. It contained a single baby bird, which can
best be described as "small" and "brown." It is about sparrow sized,
with a yellow, wide beak (in a basic baby bird sort of shape,) yellow
legs, black eyes, dark mask. Definately not fledged yet, but fully
covered in feathers.
The nest is large, made mostly of grasses, but containing lots of
interesting stuff- bits of cloth and shiny fabric, various plastics,
fake flowers, crow's feathers. The cup is about 4-5 inches accross
and very deep inside the nest. When it was found, the nest was sort
of folded over, so that the cup was completely covered. Whether this
is part of the design, or a product of the fall from the origninal
resting place, I do not know.
The nest was discovered in a suburban area in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Another fallen nest, containing one egg, was discovered near it, but I
did not see it, and it was not described to me. This one was placed
back in the tree. I thought this might be useful info, in case there
is a communally nesting bird matching this description.
My friend was unable to keep the bird, as she is about to take a long
road trip to her home state. She asked me to take care of it. It and
the nest are currently in a cardboard box, in a dark, quiet room. It
has not made a sound since I have seen it.
It'd be nice to know what to feed it, how often, etc. I have taken in
injured baby animals before, and have not had huge success keeping
them alive. I'd like to get this one right.
Thank you for your insight :)
Natalie
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| Angelline |
| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:12 am |
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"Al Johnston" <ajjohnston@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Quote: Hi Natalie,
Ideally, you should turn the nestling over to a rehabber. However, if
one is not available you could try feeding it a high protein cat food like
Science Diet. Moisten the little pellets in water until there're soft and
present them to the nestling (ex nestling, really). Don't try to get it to
take any water --- it could choke! Oh, by the way, I believe the bird is a
cedar waxwing. A friend successfully raised one after it fell from it's
nest. I believe she also fed it crushed berries as well but I'll confirm
this and post later. Good luck.
Al
"Natalie" <n-berg@cornellcollege.edu> wrote in message
news:4805e9eb.0405312141.6cad2d92@posting.google.com...
A friend of mine just found a bird's nest which had fallen from a tree
during a thunderstorm. It contained a single baby bird, which can
best be described as "small" and "brown." It is about sparrow sized,
with a yellow, wide beak (in a basic baby bird sort of shape,) yellow
legs, black eyes, dark mask. Definately not fledged yet, but fully
covered in feathers.
The nest is large, made mostly of grasses, but containing lots of
interesting stuff- bits of cloth and shiny fabric, various plastics,
fake flowers, crow's feathers. The cup is about 4-5 inches accross
and very deep inside the nest. When it was found, the nest was sort
of folded over, so that the cup was completely covered. Whether this
is part of the design, or a product of the fall from the origninal
resting place, I do not know.
The nest was discovered in a suburban area in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Another fallen nest, containing one egg, was discovered near it, but I
did not see it, and it was not described to me. This one was placed
back in the tree. I thought this might be useful info, in case there
is a communally nesting bird matching this description.
My friend was unable to keep the bird, as she is about to take a long
road trip to her home state. She asked me to take care of it. It and
the nest are currently in a cardboard box, in a dark, quiet room. It
has not made a sound since I have seen it.
It'd be nice to know what to feed it, how often, etc. I have taken in
injured baby animals before, and have not had huge success keeping
them alive. I'd like to get this one right.
Thank you for your insight :)
Natalie
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contactA.htm
locate a rehabber, also do a google search.
There are several rehabbers in Iowa, one in Cedar Rapids. If that one
doesn't do birds, they will know someone who does,
Apparently you didn't try very hard to find one, I found it in about 5
seconds.
It is illegal for you to posses these birds.
Get help from a licensed rehabber, not from a newsgroup.
In your post you say you are in the habit of picking up baby animals, and
they have died.
This is exactly why it is illegal, you don't know what you are doing.
If it does survive, the bird will likely become imprinted on humans and
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| Natalie |
| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:51 pm |
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Quote: It is illegal for you to posses these birds.
Get help from a licensed rehabber, not from a newsgroup.
In your post you say you are in the habit of picking up baby animals, and
they have died.
This is exactly why it is illegal, you don't know what you are doing.
If it does survive, the bird will likely become imprinted on humans and
unable to survive in the wild.
The nestling wouldn't take any kind of food from us- already knew too
well what species it belonged to, I suppose. I got a hold of Animal
Control, and they said they'd find a rehab person.
I'm not in the habit of picking up baby animals- people bring them to
us because we have a lot of pets and they think we know what we're
doing. If I'd found the bird myself, I'd have tried to put the nest
back in the tree and retreated to a safe distance. I had enough
experience with this sort of thing when I was a small child to know
that animals should be raised by their own parents.
We have tried to rescue the occaisional cat-battered baby rabbit, one
of which has in fact survived to be released. We did successfully
raise a snapping turtle hatchling we found near frozen, which was not
that hard to keep alive (and I suspect would have survived on its own
anyway, but I don't think it suffered unduly from a few months of
surviving on hamburger and turtle pellets in a clean aquarium.)
I do wish that my friend had simply put the nest somewhere out of
reach of cats- the chick did eventually start chirping, which I think
would have allowed the parents to locate and feed it. As it is now,
I'm afraid that it won't have very good odds of survival, since it
won't take food. I thought if I could figure out the species, perhaps
I could make a mamma-bird puppet, see if it'd take food from that.
But, it's out of my hands now. I hope it survives.
Thanks for your help. :)
Natalie |
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