apart from worms, does bird (baby bird) eat any things else?

Answer 1

FEEDING
Nestlings require frequent feedings-- as much as every 30 minutes from dawn to dark. One person should take care of the bird to avoid excessive human contact. (Don't tame the bird!). Food should be at room temperature and of soft consistency. The bird shouldn't need water if the food is fairly moist.

Begin feeding young birds with an eyedropper. Fill the dropper so there are no air bubbles. If the bird won't open its mouth when food is presented, gently open the beak by slipping a fingernail between the upper and lower jaws and prying them apart. Put the dropper in the back of the bird's throat, behind the tongue, and slowly squeeze the dropper. Be careful not to get fluid in the breathing tube in the floor of the mouth just behind the tongue. Clean food from the beak and feathers with a moist tissue.

Later the bird will take thicker food and will eventually open the beak when it sees food or it may even squawk when it wants food. Stick the food to the end of a pointed popsicle stick or a drinking straw cut on a slant and give it to the bird. Do not use metal tweezers--they may damage the bird's tender mouth. As the bird grows it will eat more, but less frequently.

FOOD
Birds have a high metabolic rate and a high energy requirement. Bread crumbs and milk are not sufficient. Most baby birds are unable to feed themselves; normally the parents feed them, so putting bird seeds or worms in the box does no good. You have to put the food into the baby. At first you may have to pry open the beak to do this, but soon the bird will realize that you are the source of food (Momma) and will open its beak and squawk whenever it is hungry or when it hears you approach. Feed it when it asks for it. When it has enough it will collapse and sleep until it is hungry again.

Emergency Food

When a bird is first found, it likely is hungry and dehydrated. You may make a quick food that will keep the bird alive until you can prepare a complete diet. The following recipes are for emergency use only and should not be used for more than a few hours since they are only "energy" foods, not "growing" foods.

Mix 4 tsp. water and 1 tsp. sugar - OR
2 tsp. water and 1 tsp. white Karo syrup - OR
2 egg yolks and 2 oz. boiled and cooled Coca Cola.

Feed the mixture with an eyedropper. Fill the dropper, poke it down the bird's throat (past the entrance to the air pipe or trachea), and pump it in. Take care to keep the food from soiling the bird's feathers. Once it dries, it will be very difficult to remove without harming the bird.

COMPLETE DIETS
The majority of birds can be classified in two groups: meat eaters and seed eaters. Basic diets for these are listed below with suggestions for special foods for different species of birds. The sooner you identify the bird, the sooner you can provide the best diet. The basic foods mentioned in these diets can be classified into two groups:

MEAT:
* P/D dogfood (canned and available from most veterinarians),
* dry puppy kibbles (have to be soaked in water),
* boiled chicken, strained beef baby food,
* hard boiled chicken egg yolk,
* live insects such as flies and mealworms.

GRAIN:
* high protein dry baby cereal ,
* wheat germ,
* corn or oat meal that has been powdered down in a blender.

MEAT and GRAIN proportions are generally:

INSECT EATER BIRDS -- 1 part MEAT to 2 parts GRAIN

SEED EATER BIRDS -- 1 part MEAT to 4 parts GRAIN

When MEAT is asked for in the diet, you can pick any MEAT from the MEAT group. You can then add in, the right proportions , any GRAIN from the GRAIN group. For example, a seed-eater diet could be 1 part P/D dogfood and 5 parts wheat germ. It is suggested that you can vary this diet as much as possible as long as you stay within the proper framework. For example the next time you mix up a batch of formula for your seed eater bird, you might use 1 part boiled chicken and 5 parts high protein baby cereal. Variety is the spice of life, and also keeps young birds healthy.

A good pinch of VET-NUTRI, a Squib vitamin/mineral supplement available at most veterinarians, should be added to each new batch of food you mix. Sprinkle over and mix in. Mix food daily; never mix more than you can use in a day's time. Otherwise it may sour. Supplement these basic diets with frequent little goodies whenever possible. Normal diets are listed below, so use your imagination. Those occasional tidbits of natural food help. Remember that young birds eat large amounts of food and at frequent intervals. Some consume an amount equal to their own weight each day. Just leaving food in the box or feeding two or three times a day is not enough!

SPECIFIC DIETS
Click on the name of the bird you think you have; to see the recommended diet.


MAKE SHURE YOU CLICK THE LINK IT TELL YOU WHAT FOOD FOR WHAT BIRD THEY DO NOT ALL EAT THE SAME THING

* BLACKBIRD
* BLUEBIRD
* BUSHTIT
* CHICKADEE
* CHUKAR
* CLARK'S NUTCRACKER
* CROW
* DOVE
* EAGLE
* FALCON
* FINCH
* FLICKER
* FLYCATCHER
* GNATCATCHER
* GOLDFINCH
* GROSBEAK
* HAWK

* HORNED LARK
* HUMMINGBIRD

* JAY
* JUNCO
* KILLDEER
* KINGLET
* MAGPIE
* MEADOWLARK
* MOCKINGBIRD
* NUTHATCH
* ORIOLE
* OWL
* PHEASANT
* PHOEBE
* PIGEON
* QUAIL
* RAVEN
* ROBIN
* SAPSUCKER
* STARLING
* SWIFT
* SHRIKE
* SPARROW
* SWALLOW
* THRASHER
* THRUSH
* TITMOUSE
* TOWHEE
* VIREO
* VULTURE
* WARBLER
* WAXWING
* WOODPECKER
* WREN
* WRENTIT

Answer 2

Baby birds are provided for by their parents. The mother and father feed the baby birds regurgitated food such as worms like you mentioned as well as other things such as grains, berries, etc. If you have found a bird it is good to know that they need feeding about every 45 minutes from 6AM to 8PM for 4-6 weeks. When they become self feeding (which may not be until six weeks old), they need to be exposed to their natural food (grains, etc. for seed eaters, mealworms, fruit and berries for the insect and fruit eaters). The website I looked at stresses that if you find a baby bird it is best not to feed it, but to call propper authorities. Please take to heart the information provided there. Hope this helped. :)

Answer 3

Yes it depends on the species of birds. In most small birds the young will be fed a variety of insects as the young need a considerable ammount of protein for their development. If you even look at house sparrows, 94 % of their adult diet is seeds and grains but they feed their chicks insects for the main part. If you look at swallows the parents catch flying iinsects and feed them to the young they don't land on the ground in serch of worms or other ground dweelling invertebrates. Some birds have a lot of fruit in their diet when they are young, waxwings are one of the few where the young can be fed large quantities of berries as chicks. If you look at raptors it depends on which one again, a golden eagle for example will feed its chicks bits of meat it tears off its prey (ex rabbit), whereas osprey and bald eagles will feed their chicks more fish, an american kestrel will feed insects and small mamals, and its the same deal for owls whereas a great-horned owl will go for squirrels skunks etc, the very small pygmy owl actually goes for worms. Then you can look at a lot of the aquatic species, gulls, cormorants, herons, etc which will feed their young almost exlusively fish. Pigeons and doves are a special case they feed their young "pigeon milk" it's not milk but basically food which has been broken down in their crop (which can store a lot of food). Then you can also look at ducklings, goslings, grouse chicks, turkey chicks etc, which don't need their parents to feed them they simply go arround and catch whatever invertebrates they can, eat any berries they find, and for some eat plants / grass. Basically the food the chicks eat is very diverse and changes from one species to the next.

If you do find a baby bird , take it to a wildlife rehabilitation center, don't try and keep it and raise it as it is a federal offense. The fines are quite substantial and odds are you are going to kill the chick or raise it improperly. Here's a site to locate the neares rehab center http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Edevo0028/contact.htm

Answer 4

seeds. and the mother pukes up a certain something when the birds are hungry.