A baby american robin bird fell out of its nest right by my house. How best should I take care of it?
June 4th, 2008 | by admin |
rabbitgoesmoo asked:
There were four fledglings until this one fell out. It’s been about a week since they hatched (they aren’t blind anymore, so I know it’s been more than 5 days) and I tried putting the baby bird back in its nest, but its mommy rejects it. I would like to help out, but I don’t know much about taking care of baby birds. How should I go about doing this for the poor thing?
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There were four fledglings until this one fell out. It’s been about a week since they hatched (they aren’t blind anymore, so I know it’s been more than 5 days) and I tried putting the baby bird back in its nest, but its mommy rejects it. I would like to help out, but I don’t know much about taking care of baby birds. How should I go about doing this for the poor thing?
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2 Responses to “A baby american robin bird fell out of its nest right by my house. How best should I take care of it?”
By Goldenrain on Jun 4, 2008 | Reply
Last Spring there was a baby Robin Redbreast in my yard that needed some help getting started and not eaten up by cats so I caught it and put it in a cage. The parents were keeping track of it diligently. I prepared some food for it by grinding up some cat food on a coffee grinder and mixing it with yogurt and diluting it with water as needed. I fed the baby bird that “food” with a syringe/dropper. It so happened I was not working so I bird sat and each day I put the cage out, opened up the door on the top and the parents would come with all sorts of food and feed it. I learned Robins like to eat alot of worms, juicy stuff like that. I even dug in my ground for worms and fed those to it too. It was pretty easy feeding it because it had the reflex to just open its beak when the food was at hand, so young and helpless. At night I brought it in. In about 4 days or so it really wanted to take off so it flew up in the tree above and I heard the parents tend to it for several days more up in that tree. The time I had it inside at night I had the pleasure of hearing it wake up and squawk for food in the morning and sing some bird songs. They are beautiful creatures.
By lilbritt91493 on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply
take it to a wildlife center or something near you they will take care of it and most likely let it back into the wild