cay
pppppppppppppplllllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssssseeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i really really really need to become a baby sitter!
Answer
Check out some parentings books and watch some of those parenting shows like Nanny 911 and such.
You could also try volunteering at a day care center.
Best of luck !! =)
Check out some parentings books and watch some of those parenting shows like Nanny 911 and such.
You could also try volunteering at a day care center.
Best of luck !! =)
Four baby birds are outside on my porch and I believe that the mother has abandoned them?
Adam
What can I do to take care of them? I feel sorry for them. Is there somebody I can call or is there a way for me to take care of them myself?
Answer
If the babies have most of their feathers, they are fledglings. Baby birds fledge (leave the nest) several days before they can fly. They need time to hop around on the ground, climb low branches, and exercise their wings until they have strengthened them enough for flight. The parent birds continue to feed and care for the fledglings until they are self-sufficient.
If they are fledglings, leave them where you found them. The parents are probably just gathering food for them. Leave the area, because the parents think of you as a predator, and will not come back to their babies if you are visible.
If they do not have many feathers yet, and you think they are still nestlings, try to find the nest and place the birds back in the nest. Do not worry that you have touched them. Birds do not have an acute sense of smell. The parent birds will not detect your scent on the babies, and will not reject them. Wildlife biologists and bird banders handle baby birds all the time, with thier bare hands, and the parents never reject the babies.
If you can not find the nest and place the birds back, contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm
Please, under no circumstances, attempt to care for the baby birds yourself. There is so much more to rehabilitation than keeping the animal alive until you think it is ready to be released. You have to know not only what to feed the bird, but how (please do NOT attempt to give the bird any liquid by dropper - baby birds can aspirate and die), how much and how often. You also have to know how to assess the birds general health and condition.
A baby bird kept in captivity must be taught to recognize and find the type of food it will eat in the wild. If it is being hand-fed, it may not associate the bugs and berries and seeds in nature as being food. It must also have the opportunity to exercise its wings a lot, so it will be able to fly on or shortly after release. When I volunteered at the Avian Rehabilitation Center, we kept the rehabilitating fledglings in a large walk-in cage with lots of shelves and branches leading from one shelf to the other, and down to the ground. We would place different types of food in the cage for them, as they were being weaned from the hand-feeding formula. We offered seed, meal worms and chopped up fruit. No fledgling was released until it was eating on its own, had sufficient weight gain, had all of its flight feathers in good condition, had no sign of diarreah or nasal discharge, had clear eyes, and could fly at least a few feet in a straight line.
These are the reasons to get the bird to a licensed rehabilitator - they have the training and the resources necessary to do all this, in addition to having the permits to do it all legally.
All native migratory birds in the US are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and you must have the proper permits to have them, even for a short time, even for good reasons like saving them. Many other countries also have similar laws regarding their native species
If the babies have most of their feathers, they are fledglings. Baby birds fledge (leave the nest) several days before they can fly. They need time to hop around on the ground, climb low branches, and exercise their wings until they have strengthened them enough for flight. The parent birds continue to feed and care for the fledglings until they are self-sufficient.
If they are fledglings, leave them where you found them. The parents are probably just gathering food for them. Leave the area, because the parents think of you as a predator, and will not come back to their babies if you are visible.
If they do not have many feathers yet, and you think they are still nestlings, try to find the nest and place the birds back in the nest. Do not worry that you have touched them. Birds do not have an acute sense of smell. The parent birds will not detect your scent on the babies, and will not reject them. Wildlife biologists and bird banders handle baby birds all the time, with thier bare hands, and the parents never reject the babies.
If you can not find the nest and place the birds back, contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm
Please, under no circumstances, attempt to care for the baby birds yourself. There is so much more to rehabilitation than keeping the animal alive until you think it is ready to be released. You have to know not only what to feed the bird, but how (please do NOT attempt to give the bird any liquid by dropper - baby birds can aspirate and die), how much and how often. You also have to know how to assess the birds general health and condition.
A baby bird kept in captivity must be taught to recognize and find the type of food it will eat in the wild. If it is being hand-fed, it may not associate the bugs and berries and seeds in nature as being food. It must also have the opportunity to exercise its wings a lot, so it will be able to fly on or shortly after release. When I volunteered at the Avian Rehabilitation Center, we kept the rehabilitating fledglings in a large walk-in cage with lots of shelves and branches leading from one shelf to the other, and down to the ground. We would place different types of food in the cage for them, as they were being weaned from the hand-feeding formula. We offered seed, meal worms and chopped up fruit. No fledgling was released until it was eating on its own, had sufficient weight gain, had all of its flight feathers in good condition, had no sign of diarreah or nasal discharge, had clear eyes, and could fly at least a few feet in a straight line.
These are the reasons to get the bird to a licensed rehabilitator - they have the training and the resources necessary to do all this, in addition to having the permits to do it all legally.
All native migratory birds in the US are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and you must have the proper permits to have them, even for a short time, even for good reasons like saving them. Many other countries also have similar laws regarding their native species
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