How Do You Care For Baby House Sparrow Bird?
You could care for the baby fledgling, for another four to five weeks at least. The bird will know when to go because it will attempt to fly away. Milk and bread is OK and a little meat chopped up or diced. This will sustain it until it is ready and able to fly properly. Be watchful for predators. You will have to place the shoe box in a safe area in the house or shed up high from the ground. You will have to change the sawdust sometimes for fresh. I myself did this with a baby sparrow years ago, and it flew away with a lovely set of feathers and plumage. I got great satisfaction with helping the bird to survive and have a life in the wild.
Hi! Everyday, baby birds are found by humans and need to be taken care of. This happened to me with a Golden Finch. (She lost her nest). You should feed her. She might be hungry. Go to your pet store and buy bird baby food. There is a unique food only for baby birds. Feed this to her. (The instructions will be on the back of the package). Next, get a small cage or somewhere comfy. Put cloths on the bottom of the cage/place so that she’s warm and comfy. Since she’s a baby, she’s going to open her beak to you if she’s hungry. Get a needle, the one WITHOUT the point, you know, the one that isn’t a shot needle, and put the food or water in there. Feed her that way. CAREFUL, if you feed her on the wrong side of her mouth, she will die because she has an air hole so try not to feed through her air hole. When she can fly or she seems old enough, free her. It’s hard, but you have too. If you free her too late, she won’t know how to survive in the wild. Good Luck!
Please stop feeding it bread and water, and do not feed it ground beef, they cannot digest these things as they are nutritionally incompetent. You will only give it diarrhea. There is a specific formula for baby birds, but soaked puppy food with mashed hard boiled eggs will work until you can get the bird to a trained professional. The bird will need to eat a small amount hourly from sunrise to sunset. Keep it on a heating pad in a quiet dark place, stress kills. Never feed a cold animal. Call a wildlife rehabiltator in your area as soon as possible, taking care of wildlife is alot more complicated than feeding it till it flies away, although you mean well, without training you can potentially do more harm than good. The bird is a fledgling learning to fly. They learn to fly from the ground up, and yes mom still takes care of them, in select cases the bird is truly orphaned and does require help, but it is best for the animal if it gets the best help possible by a trained professional.
