What do you do for a baby robin that fell out of its nest? The parents have abandoned it.?

Answer 1

First thing first...the dad is usually the one to sit on the nest while the mother is out food searching. The dad bird sits on the nest usually just around night time. During the day, the baby is warm enough, and the dad is around somewhere close. But.......
You can either take it to the ASPCA or an animal clinic or you can raise it yourself. Raising it yourself is very time consuming though. Get a very small baby bottle. Put some milk in it, warm it up. Chop up some worms and put them in the milk. feed it to the bird. You have to feed it every 2 hours. When it gets big enough to walk well on its own....you will have to teach it how to catch bugs and dig for worms on its on. Point them out on a tree or on the ground and if it doesnt catch its attention...pick it up, and put it next to it and let it get the food on its on if it will. If not, catch the food and feed it to it, then it should get the idea that its ok to eat them.

When it gets ready to fly, you will have to point out other birds to it, and let it see how its done. All of this will take about 6 weeks to do. When it looks like its ready to fly, you will have to get the courage up to hold the bird in your hand and toss it in the air.


Good luck with your decision. Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

ARE YOU SURE IT IS ABANDONED???? Most birds leave the nest BEFORE they can fly and they sit around in a scrub or bush and get fed by the parents, until they can fly and forage on their own. Unless you have watched the baby continually for about 45 minutes or so and have not seen parents tending to it...only then can you assume it has been abandoned. If the bird is fully feathered than it has left the nest on it's own!! If feathered...leave it where you found it and the parents will care for it. If it is bald, try and locate the nest and you can put it back and the parents will continue to care for it...if bald and no nest around....then get it to a wildlife rehab in your area. A vet or humane society can probably point you in the right direction. Also, touching a baby bird is fine...adults will not abandon it..birds cannont smell like some people seem to think. Good Luck.

Answer 3

Are you sure that the parents have abandoned it?
My mom is one of those bird people and even when I was little when I used to find a helpless baby bird we would try to help it.

We hand reared one and were able to let it go (it was a robin as well). Often if you can find it a few worms (I found some small worms just digging in the garden), and bring it above it's mouth like a mother might do, it will eat. Robins especially will open their mouth for just about anyone.

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/search/Robin.html#Conservation
If you plan on trying to rear it, I suggest going there for more info.

Answer 4

If the robin is mostly feathered with a short tail it is called a fledgling. It is learning how to fly. Usually, it takes about 24-48 hours of it being on the ground to actually leave. I highly recommend if this is the case that you leave it be (keep your pets indoors during this time).

The parents will continue to come back and feed it while it is on the ground. Often times the parents will call from farther away to encourage the little one to fly. Watch the bird from inside your house if at all possible...you will see one of the parents return to feed it. If you have already touched the bird, do not worry about it being rejected. This is a myth. Birds, such as robins, are visual...and their sense of smell is actually quite horrible.

If the bird is injured in any way...bleeding, broken bones, been in a cat or dogs mouth; you should contact your local wildlife rehabilitator immediately as it is in a life-threatening situation.

Answer 5

If you can put it back in the nest then do it. If the parents have thrown the baby out of the nest there is a reason for it. If you can not place it back in the nest contact your local Vet for a list of Federally licensed Rehab people. Since the Robin is Federally protected you are not allowed to keep it to raise.

Sapphyre
Certified Avian Specialist
http://www.borrowed-rainbow.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BorrowedRainbowAviary/

Answer 6

See my website for emergency care instructions: http://www.starlingrescueandcare.bravehost.com . Also the baby diet there will apply to a baby robin as well. DO NOT PUT WATER DIRECTLY INTO THE BABY"S MOUTH! This will cause him to aspirate (inhale liquid causing inhalation pneumonia or possible drown!), instead place a few drops on the outside of the beak and the baby will suck it in. If the baby is unfeathered, you will need to keep him warm by placing him in a small box with a heating pad underneath set on low. After he has warmed you may then feed him egg (not raw) or dog/cat food moistened with water to a consistency of cooked oatmeal. After you have followed these steps (please see website for further instruction), you should contact a wildlife rehabilitator, because it is illegal to keep a native species. Here is a directory for rehabilitators: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/ . Please also see the Identify a baby page located on my website to be sure the baby is indeed a robin.

Audra

Answer 7

i would give it water to cheer up and put it back. it is not true that the parents abandon it when you touch it (that is only true for mammals, not birds)

are you sure it is abandoned? sometimes the parents are shy if you are around, give it some water (in any case) and watch it from a distance for several hours

dont feed it any seeds, it is too small for that, only insects - if you find some apprpriate bugs, it will gulp it happily. boil an egg (10 minutes) crumble the whole egg in little parts and feed the crumbles and water - that is if realy abandoned. that will help before you think something up..

Answer 8

Usually the parents of the robin leave it to try to learn flying alone and watching from far. If the parents come to help their child and smell the odor of human fingers they abandon it. I advise you leave it or put it on a high point(tree)
and watch from far for some time. If no one it parent come then rather than taking care of it send it to any firm that takes care of such animals in your region

Answer 9

This has happened to me a couple of times. I found a baby bird in my back yard, and I picked it up...I had cats around at the time...and it appeared healthy. So I fed it baby bird food that I got from a pet store (I used to raise all kinds of birds). I used a dropper, and it did real well. It finally got big enough to fly, and so I let it go free. It flew off and appeared to be fine. Three days later I was lying out in the sun in my back yard, and I heard this little bird squawking, and all of a sudden it flew straight down at me and landed right by my head and started flapping it's wings and opening it's beak...demanding to be fed. So I did, and it flew off again, and came back a few more times to be fed, then finally flew off for good. That happened to me again with another bird later on, but the little bird died because a cat had gotten to it. Apparantly if cat saliva gets into the bird's blood stream, it won't survive. That's what I've heard. If you do decide to feed the baby bird, be sure not to overfeed it. I've watched mama birds in trees feed their young, and it's not as often as you'd think that they do that. Good luck!

Answer 10

that's so very hard... and that i understand that is .. yet you want to go away this on my own and enable nature look after her own. Animal administration can be a good position to commence yet they are not those who ought to address this. you want the organic world rescue. you could look them up on-line or you could call a community vet and they could placed you in contact with a approved rehabilitation professional. undergo in options contained in the U. S. it isn't legal that you could own even a feather from a robin a lot less a robin or it is egg except you're transporting it to a approved facility or man or woman. I ***understand***** that you want to help, yet you truly do favor to acquire a rehab professional and get suggestion from them. in the period in-between, you could attempt to save predators away, yet... this can make the mum and father see YOU as a predator and prevent on their chicks or attack you. Please attempt to the contact a license rehab professional