These are photos of baby birds that are being
rehabilitated. Although some babies are obvious, most are not when they are
very young! Click on the pictures for a larger version.
If you find baby birds that have been abandoned, you should try to contact
wildlife rehabilitators in your area and get the animal to them. It is
not legal to try to care for them yourself as it requires training and
special equipment. There are substantial fines involved, but the real risk
is to the animal which will die unless it receives proper care.
Baby Mourning Doves are especially tricky to care for, as they are crop
feeders, feeding on partially digested food from their parent's crop, or
gullet.
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Barn
Swallow |
Grackle |
Robin |
Carolina Wrens |
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Mourning Dove |
Mourning Dove |
Tube feeding a baby Mourning Dove |
In the flight cage; Cardinal, Bluebirds,
Robin, Barn Swallow |
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Blue Jay |
Female Bluebird |
Red-bellied Woodpeckers |
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers |
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All photos © Louise Brown July, 2004 |
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