Found a baby bird, what to feed it? Urgent help needed!

(06-22-2012, 12:32 AM)Ram Wrote:

(06-21-2012, 10:33 PM)tajnz Wrote: As for the food problem I believe my mother mashed up fruit e.g banana like Victor Leigh mentioned. I also think she mashed tiny bits of bread with water as it was easy for the bird to eat.

Are you sure? While bread might sustain some adult birds, small birds need protein and calcium in order to grow. It is hard to imagine that banana and bread can provide the necessary nutrients for a bird that is still growing. This bird is almost covered by feather, but it can't fly. It is still a fledgling.

I am not really sure what are the nutritional requirements of baby birds. What I posted was just from my observation.

Where I used to live before, the villagers are in the habit of getting baby birds from the forest to rear at home. The banana was what I saw them feeding the baby birds. When I asked them about it, they told me that they had observed mother birds doing the same thing in the forest. The mother birds eat the banana then re-gurgitate it for the baby birds to eat.

Maybe they are doing it right because I have seen many hand-reared birds that grew up strong and healthy on banana. Perhaps birds in that area lived mainly on bananas, too.

Have you observed the eating habits of any of the adult birds in your area? That might give you a clue as to what they eat.