Wild Bird Information | Open for Questions etc. !

[duckteeth]

@the jon oh yeah no its absolutley horrible for them in every other aspect. regardless of whether or not it expands their stomachs, its still very harmful.

[Zitface]

Yeah, I figured. It's pretty much starving them without them realizing it.
no wonder geese are always so pissed off its like a person going to the buffet when theyre depressed
its doing nothing for them but they cant stop

[duckteeth]

haha for real tho
its the equivalent of like eating candy 24/7 always
or i mean literally just consuming nutritionless carbohydrates which is horrible for any species as far as im aware

[ToastingCinnamon]

I believe it is possible to feed a baby bird soggy dog food. I've taken care of some baby birds with my mom (who was a vet and has taken care of multiple baby birds and birds in general) and sister, after waiting a little bit and watching around to see if the mother was around but 24 hours later and one died so we took he other two in, and fed them soggy dog food and they grew up just fine! Dog food does have the nutrition some baby birds need, not everything but most.

[Menidia]

Excellent information!

This summer I found a northern mockingbird fledgling in the middle of the road. I went to move it to some bushes and its parents divebombed me :p

Mockingbirds are excellent parents!

I always knew bread was a bad food for birds, though I never heard of angel wing. Thanks for this guide!

[harrington]

Marking, I adore birds and hope to work with them when I'm older <3

[Kiyomice]

I found a baby bird when I was little. It lived for at least two weeks (maybe a month?) and I really thought it was going to last forever. It seemed so healthy and I was feeding it bread and water. (I actually had to dip the bread into water so it'd be soggy because he couldn't rip it apart otherwise)..But then one day it just died. ):
^ I was very young and wouldn't do that again now...but I wish I had seen some sort of sign that something was wrong. I feel like I don't ~really~ know why (even though it's probably because the bread wasn't proper nutrition...)
I'm still so sad almost 10 years later T_T

[duckteeth]

I found a baby bird when I was little. It lived for at least two weeks (maybe a month?) and I really thought it was going to last forever. It seemed so healthy and I was feeding it bread and water. (I actually had to dip the bread into water so it'd be soggy because he couldn't rip it apart otherwise)..But then one day it just died. ):
^ I was very young and wouldn't do that again now...but I wish I had seen some sort of sign that something was wrong. I feel like I don't ~really~ know why (even though it's probably because the bread wasn't proper nutrition...)
I'm still so sad almost 10 years later T_T

its definitely bc of the bread but its not your fault for not knowing! experiences like that are pretty scarring, unfortunately :(
at least you're not the person who fed a baby robin milk because she though baby birds got milk from their mothers

[myu18]

omg this is actually rlly cool
and i never knew most of
this stuff, thank u!!! im
gonna mark this.

[kivr & fireflii]

Nice post. :) I really like the cat info addition. Do you work/volunteer at a wildlife rehab? We get a lot of backyard birds, but the person I volunteer with specializes in raptors, so we get a lot of hawks and owls (and falcons to a slightly lesser degree), too.
-fireflii