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This article was co-written by Pippa Elliott, MRCVS. Dr. Elliott is a veterinarian with over thirty years of experience. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1987 and worked as a veterinary surgeon for 7 years. Then, Dr. Elliott worked as a veterinarian in a clinic for over a decade.
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If you find a young house sparrow, you can learn how to care for it. However, before bringing the bird home, you need to carefully observe the surrounding area to make sure it is abandoned. Birds kept at home have a high mortality rate, so the bird will have a better chance of survival if it returns to the nest and is cared for by its parents. [1] X Practical Wildlife Care Research Source . Lee Stocker. Publisher: Blackwell Science
Steps
Avoid common mistakes
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Make sure the bird is abandoned. If the bird has feathers, it is a clear bird and is learning to fly. Therefore, it needs to stay on the ground and you should only take it away if it is in danger from predators, or the parent bird does not return within an hour. If the bird has no feathers, it is a young bird, you need to look around and if you find a nest, gently lift the bird and put it back there.
- House sparrows were originally found only in Eurasia, North America, and the Mediterranean region, however today they live all over the world. Because of the large number of house sparrows, they are not on the protected list. [2] X Trusted Source The Cornell Lab of Ornithpogy Go to the source That means the law doesn’t forbid you to keep house sparrows as pets.
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Protect your health when in contact with wild animals. Pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems should not come into contact with young birds. They can carry pathogens, such as salmonella, that can infect humans.
- Always maintain strict hygiene when dealing with birds. You need to wash your hands thoroughly before and after touching the bird. Wastes should be placed in sealed bags before being disposed of.
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Avoid leaving a deep impression on birds. If you interact with humans too much, the bird will think you are the parent and will not be afraid of you anymore. This makes it difficult to release it back into the wild. If you intend to keep the bird until it is healthy enough to return to the wild, you need to avoid lifting and touching it, especially during feeding to avoid causing it to lose its instinct to fear people.
- Try not to get the bird used to you. If you get used to it, the bird will think it is a human like you, not a bird, so returning it to the wild will be very difficult. [3] X Research Sources
- Try not to communicate with birds. You need to take care and feed it like an “invisible person”.
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Avoid giving water to birds. Young birds and larks only eat insects brought back by their parents, and they do not drink water. If you try to give them a drink, water can get into their lungs and cause them to choke.
Keeping house sparrows healthy
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Keep birds warm. Place a low heat thermostat in a tissue box, cover with a few paper towels, or use a small bowl lined with paper towels underneath, place the bowl over a hot water bottle, then place the bird inside. . You can also use pendant lights to keep the birds warm.
- The ideal temperature is between 30-32 degrees Celsius.
- Do not use ruffled clothing to line the bird’s nest because the bird’s claws and beak can get caught in it.
- Place the nest in a dark and quiet place, away from small children and pets.
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Keep the beak clean. After feeding the bird, you need to clean the bird’s beak and face with a disposable wet cloth or wet cotton ball. The dirt on the beak can cause the bird to become infected with bacteria. [4] X Research Source Practical Wildlife Care. Lee Stocker. Publisher: Blackwell Science
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Measure bird growth. You can use a microscopic scale to measure the overall growth of your bird by weighing the bird every day before feeding. Healthy chicks will gain weight each day.
- If you intend to return the bird to the wild, you may not need to weigh it, because the more exposure you have, the more imprint you will leave on it. If you want to keep your bird as a pet, weigh it regularly to monitor its growth.
Baby house sparrow blanket
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Start feeding the chicks with water-soaked dog or kitten food. Mix in baby bird food or soaked pronutro cereal. Canned dog or kitten food is high in protein and more similar to natural bird food than adult dog food. After soaking, crumble the food into a shallow bowl.
- If the bird is not old enough to eat on its own, you should divide the food, about the size of half a pinky fingernail, and use tweezers to feed the bird.
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Add as many insects as you can to bird feeder dog or kitten food. The house sparrow’s natural diet consists of dry food, such as sprouts, nuts, and fresh food, such as spiders, snails, aphids, caterpillars, and invertebrates. live differently. Young birds often prefer fresh food to dry food.
- Note, do not feed the young house sparrows with earthworms. Earthworms contain a poison that can kill birds. [5] X Research Source Practical Wildlife Care. Lee Stocker. Publisher: Blackwell Science Instead, you can feed the bird very small crickets (available at a reptile food store).
- Or you can also feed the birds clean white maggots, sold at bait shops. Note that only maggots with clean intestines should be fed to birds. The black line in the maggot is their intestine, wait until this black line disappears before feeding the bird.
- You can also feed birds with dried insects intended for reptiles such as bearded dragons. You can find this food at pet stores.
- If the house sparrow is a fledgling, you just need to feed it cat food, do not add insects. Insects such as flies can cause severe constipation in young birds and lead to death.
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Mix a vitamin or mineral supplement into raw foods. You can choose from supplements like Nutrobal (reptile food) or Cricket Diet Calcium Paste (IZUG) (cricket food), available at pet stores. These supplements in combination with live foods will ensure a well-balanced diet.
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Feed the bird often. Depending on the bird’s age, you can feed the bird directly, or if the bird is old enough to eat on its own, you can put the food in a shallow bowl. It should be noted that young birds need about 2 weeks to be able to eat on their own. [6] X Research source Practical Wildlife Care. Lee Stocker. Publisher: Blackwell Science
- If the bird is very young and has no feathers, you should feed it every 30 minutes. For larger birds, you can feed every 1 to 2 hours. The bird will chirp and open its mouth when it is hungry and stop eating when it is full.
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Only feed the bird with a water bottle with a valve. Young birds do not yet know how to drink from shallow water troughs and may drown. [7] X Research Sources Practical Wildlife Care. Lee Stocker. Publisher: Blackwell Science
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Change the type of food as the bird gets older. As the bird gets older, you should continue to feed it with dog or cat food that is soaked in water, and provide and offer a variety of other foods to choose from. Good quality wild bird nuts are an ideal food because the birds are mature enough to eat the nuts they want. You pour the seeds into a shallow bowl and let the bird feed itself.
- Prevent bird droppings from getting in your food by cleaning up bird feeders at least once a day.
Preparing to release birds to the wild
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Put the bird in the cage when it starts to dance. During the day, you should leave the birdcage outside so other house sparrows can get close. Avoiding close contact with the bird and allowing it to interact with wild house sparrows will help it integrate into the wild better.
- If the bird refuses to interact with wild birds, it needs to learn the song of house sparrows in other ways so that it can communicate with other birds when released back into the wild. You can let your bird listen to audio recordings of birds online. [8] X Research Sources
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Spend more time with birds outside. You can have the bird jump around in the grass when the bird is 7-10 days old. If you want to release your bird into the wild, try to keep it in an open space so it can learn to fly. Natural instincts will teach the bird how to fly and prompt it to explore its wings.
- Wait until the bird has grown enough wings, if the bird has enough feathers and still does not know how to fly, it may not be ready. To see if the bird is ready, take it outside and place it on the ground, where it is not threatened by predators.
- Leave the bird alone for about 20 minutes, if it doesn’t seem to want to practice flying, bring it in and try again another day.
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Make sure the bird is ready to return to the wild. If you’re about to release the bird back into the wild, make sure it can feed on its own and won’t make much of an impression on you.
- If the bird is too familiar with you, it cannot return to the wild. You need to continue to keep it as a pet. [9] X Research Source
Advice
- When feeding your bird, try to get the food deep into the bird’s mouth to avoid suffocation.
- If possible, take the bird to a wildlife shelter.
- Always wear gloves and wash your hands after feeding and touching birds. Birds have a lot of bird lice that can be harmful to humans. If you’ve never seen bird lice, try touching birds without gloves, you may see small dots running around your hands, which are bird lice. Wash your hands after doing so.
- Remember to feed the bird often.
- Young birds will open their mouths when they want to eat or are hungry. Do not try to force them to eat as doing so may injure or even kill the bird.
Warning
- Do not feed birds with earthworms, they will make birds sick.
- Do not give the bird milk. Birds will die from fermentation in kites.
- Do not allow the bird to drink water that falls from above, as this can cause the bird to choke.
Things you need
- Bird cage
- Thermal pads
- Tissues and tissue boxes, or tissues and a bowl.
- Dog or kitten food.
- Food for baby birds
- Insect
- Seeds for birds
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This article was co-written by Pippa Elliott, MRCVS. Dr. Elliott is a veterinarian with over thirty years of experience. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1987 and worked as a veterinary surgeon for 7 years. Then, Dr. Elliott worked as a veterinarian in a clinic for over a decade.
This article has been viewed 74,477 times.
If you find a young house sparrow, you can learn how to care for it. However, before bringing the bird home, you need to carefully observe the surrounding area to make sure it is abandoned. Birds kept at home have a high mortality rate, so the bird will have a better chance of survival if it returns to the nest and is cared for by its parents. [1] X Practical Wildlife Care Research Source . Lee Stocker. Publisher: Blackwell Science
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