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The best advice I can give is to ensure it stays warm. Get a hot water bottle or a heating pad beneath the soft bedding but make sure it's not too hot.

Do not try to force food or water into its beak as it could end up directly in its lungs.

Other than that, perhaps see if there's a local wildlife or bird rehab center in your area? They might be able to help it or offer you direction.

If you can't find a wildlife rehab place, you might also look for a bird store -- I mean a place that specializes in pet birds like parrots. They can probably direct you to a local vet who knows something about birds. If not, they may still be able to help -- many parrots are hand-raised so someone there might have experience.

But start with the wildlife rehab, then the vet. Better to get someone with official experience if you can find them.

They do sell baby bird formula food and a "bottle" at the pet store, so if you're best advice from experts is to keep it, then buy those. I've seen in Youtube of people bottle-feeding their little baby finches (finches are harder to take care of because they are so little). The bottle they were using had a long nozzle.

I can't imagine hand-feeding finches. Soooo tiny!

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The little guy made it through the night and is doing a lot better than I thought he would!
He has had mealworms and earthworms, I thought the earthworms would be better but he only wants more mealworms now. I guess this is my Earthday present? I hope that he makes it, if he keeps eating I don't see why he would not. I am getting a good bit of water down him too, and he has taken to singing when I hold him...haha i'm afraid i'm falling for another one!

Just keep him away from that gorgeous Burmese ...

i rembmer doing the same things when my cat brough a bird it caught

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when i think of it today im more like i shoould have let it die.


Greatest rul of mother nature is

Survival of the strongest.



but then again ... its a pitty to let something die xD

Most of the wild chicks I've seen that had to be raised by hand were able to go back into the wild at some point. The hardest part, from what I understand, is not teaching them how to find food in the wild -- they seem to pick that up okay -- getting them to understand that people can be dangerous.

Another big step when taking care of a baby bird is when it's ready to fly. The backyard is probably a good place for that since it's all fenced up and there are no sorts of danger like power lines and roads. I'm imagining my backyard at this moment. And of course, it's important to keep an eye on it all the time.

Sphax wrote:i rembmer doing the same things when my cat brough a bird it caught

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when i think of it today im more like i shoould have let it die.


Greatest rul of mother nature is

Survival of the strongest.



but then again ... its a pitty to let something die xD

At a risk of sounding like a jerk I have to still say this. As a hunter the first thing you realise is sometimes nature sucks. Things happen, cats will be cats. Now granted maybie im over evaluating the damage your cat did to it. But most times if a cat gets ahold of a baby bird the damage is extensive. But like I said you actually saw the birds condition and if u thought it would be ok then you did the right thing.

Aw, what a sweet story! ^^ Do you know what kind of bird he is?

Take some pictures for us!

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