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Dear /an/,

I have stumbled upon this bird with no mother in sight or a nest, thus I have decided to take it in and raise it until it will fly and let him/she go. Question that I am asking is, does anyone know what the name of its species is? Also will buying worms from the local fishing bait shop, chopping it up and feeding it will be an excellent source of protein because I read around that it needs lots of protein.
>> Anonymous
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sorry if some of the picture are blurry
>> Sacri
I read somewhere on the interbutts that keeping wild birds is against the law, but then again it could have just been focused on a state (correct me if I'm wrong /an/?)


Looks like a bird my cat brought in -- still alive mind you. Perhaps a finch? Images are way too blurry to 100% tell.

It's good that you're trying to help it, but truth be, you may just be stressing the poor thing out. What you *need* to do is take a small basket lined with tissue paper and hang it outside on a nearby branch where your cats wont get a hold of it. The parents should come and deal with the baby soon enough..
>> Anonymous
Well the thing is, my mother was the one who found it in a park a few miles away from here.
This is not the first time we took a bird, a few years ago we found a dead blue jay being eaten by a cat. Later that day we found a nest where another cat was trying to eat the baby. We rescued but it died on us because it was clawed and we din't know.

Now so far we are feeding it every time it start chirping. Right now it has gotten used to us because as soon as we step out it will jump up and open it's mouth. I am trying my best so it won't die... and we did pritty much have eveything with tissue paper. We clean it every day. We just hope it will survive without a mother and know how to hunt and fly by itself.
>> Anonymous
Your bird (which does look like a finch) is old enough that if you would have just left it alone it would have made it, most likely.

It is illegal to keep wild birds without a license but oh well. Feed him for another week and make sure you keep him *warm* and then toss him out in the front yard. He'll be fine.
>> Sacri
Aww... That's precious.

Well, then. Keep up what you're doing given you're making it happy. Just as the one above me said, keep it warm -- feed/water it (the obvious things) and hopefully it'll be alright. Sorry I'm not giving you anything more than that, the only birds my cat brought in where all dead, save for the baby that was brought alive, put in basket, etc.

But whatever you do -- GOOD LUCK!!
>> Anonymous
It IS illegal but as long as you aren't jumping up and down with it in front of DNR dont worry about it.

You might wanna try offering it some seeds if it is a finch.
>> Anonymous
>>247657
I read somewhere on the interbutts that keeping wild birds is against the law, but then again it could have just been focused on a state (correct me if I'm wrong /an/?)
Most birds, yes. Common birds like OP's sparrow/finch are usually not even looked into because they are so common and if the person caught one it is probably dying already. It's selling or killing them that is illegal. Except European Starlings - (in the US) those are legal to kill on your own property; as they are considered an invasive pest.

OP - Let it go. Keeping it will kill it. It won't eat in captivity. few birds will. If it makes it, that's awesome, if it doesn't that sucks, but it's how nature works.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
...You have a fucking mockingbird.

You need to take it to a place where someone can care for it.
>> BitterAnon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
If a cat got it, it is dead. Cat bites and scratches kill birds 99% of the time.

That looks like a little starling of some sort, possibly a fledgling. Keep it for a week somewhere warm, keep giving it worms (you don't have to mince them, but cut them in half if they are more than 3 inches long), then put it outside in a bush. It has feathers and is about at the age where it should be getting out of the nest.
>> Anonymous
>>247691
>Let it go. Keeping it will kill it. It won't eat in captivity. few birds will.

Its actually not that hard to raise baby birds if you have the time and know what you're doing.
>> Anonymous
Holy fuck I am tired of seeing idiots taking in baby birds just because there's no mother in sight. How the fuck do you think mother birds get food, it doesn't just magically come to them while they sit on the nest. Just because you can't see the mother it doesn't mean the bird is completely abandoned. Leave the fucking babies in the wild, they are a lot less helpless than they look, and you're helping nothing.

And no, it's not extremely hard to raise baby birds, but the fucking reasons for taking in baby birds are usually retarded due to ignorant morons who don't know shit about birds.
>> Anonymous
>>247719
to clarify, it was not in the nest, it was wondering around the floor, where i found it their was no tree and the closest tree their was i climed to see if their was a nest. I did not whant to leave it in the ground to were some stupid dog would eat it or a cat.
>> Anonymous
I've raised a blackbird from a pinky with no feathers and it was pretty easy, some punk kids at my high school tore the nest apart out of a gutter over a doorway where a LOT of kids come through, so I didn't see the mother coming back to them so I took all 3 home. Only one lived but it learned to fly pretty much on it's own with no real "teaching", just a few tosses in the air once it had all it's feathers. It actually came back the following year and flew right to me and landed on my shoulder, it was pretty cool =)
>> Anonymous
Oh yeah and once it did start flying, it would go all over the neighborhood and just waltz up into people's houses like it lived there, i got phonecalls that my bird just walked in their house all the time xD
>> Anonymous
Get it to a rehab. You are attempting to do a noble thing but if you continue on without seeking professional help you are just being a twit. I appreciate you trying to help nature but she takes due course for a reason. The bird's best chances are with a rehab that will give it the best "wild" life it could hope to have.

The other post where the bird became so imprinted is what you don't want to do. Trust me. It may seem cool but it is a nuisance and it isn't natural.