In the spring when birds remove posterity, the baby birds who dropped out of a nest - not a rarity. Zheltoklyuvy little birds look so miserable that people begin to be tormented with a remorse and take away chickabiddies home to leave, warm and save. So, you took to yourself a tiny baby bird of a sparrow. So, it is necessary to feed with something him.
If you picked up and brought home the baby bird of a sparrow who dropped out of a nest, in the beginning find to it the place. The small box, with the laid soft fabric at the bottom will approach. Make sure that the baby bird will not jump out of it. Absolutely tiny birds need heating. For this purpose it is possible to use a hot-water bottle or just a bottle with warm water.
What it is possible to feed a baby bird of a sparrow with?First of all, it is necessary to remember that baby birds of insectivorous small birds - larks, titmouses, sparrows - for one day eat food of 3/4 parts of the weight. It is the best of all that the basis of a diet of a birdie was formed by insects habitual to it: worms, front sights, grasshoppers, bugs, larvae. However, certainly, it is not so simple to get them. For some reason in books, fairy tales, movies of sparrows usually feed up bread. But it is impossible to do it at all. It is possible to give to a baby bird bakery products not more often than once in 2 days and that only in the form of the crumb soaked in milk. Besides, it is possible to give gradually small cut boiled or crude meat, the ground in a mortar and steamed seeds of cereals or oat flakes. Vegetables - beet, a cucumber, carrots also will be suitable for feeding. They need to be rasped and wrung out from excess juice. Also you can feed a baby bird of a sparrow with boiled egg or cottage cheese. The main thing that this food was unsalted. It is desirable to add a little coal to food or pounded chalk - the baby bird will be glad to such seasoning. In turn, salt to birds is strictly forbidden to be given. Try that the baby bird ate independently, however, if it is impossible, you can give him food, unclenching a beak by means of tweezers. As a bird still small, it is necessary to feed her often - not less, than once at 2 o'clock. It is rather difficult task, and therefore it is considered that it is difficult to bring up baby birds of small birds. Besides, do not forget that besides food in free access the bird has to have also clear water.
Before leaving a baby bird of a sparrow, think
Before leaving a baby bird of a sparrow, think: perhaps, it is better to leave after all it where you found it? In most cases fledglings drop out of nests. So call baby birds who are not able to fly yet, but made the first attempt it to try. Their adult parents try to finish feeding then the offspring already on the earth. If in the district there is no large number of stray dogs and cats, an opportunity at such baby bird to survive at liberty significantly higher, than in house conditions. It must be kept in mind that quite often birds perish because of the wrong feeding or contents at home. And if you very much want to take feasible part in rescue of a baby bird, perhaps, better to put a feeding trough with food where there is a dropped-out baby bird, than to feed him in a cage at home. You remember: the birds who are grown up in bondage often perish after they are let out to the environment.