What sort of bird is this?

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First sorry I don't know where to post this and I know you lot on HHO are really clever and love to help.

So what sort of bird is this? My cat came home with it last Friday at 11.30pm I have been feeding it chicken food scoked in water and the odd maggot. It's doing really well on this but I need to play sounds of what ever type of bird it is. I don't touch it unless I really have to and only feed it then leave it alone, in our second bed room we don't use. Where it can hear other birds, but due to it needing to be fed I bring it to work in a small box, so need so bird songs I can play to it.

I thought it was a sparrow but now I'm not so sure, someone said it's a starling. Sorry really long post now for pic's. PLEASE DON'T MOVE THIS AS I NEED ANSWER'S AND THIS PART OF FORUM HAS MOST PEOPLE LOOKING :D

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Thanks so much :)
 
How big is it? I think it will be getting towards the size of an adult whatever it is so at least that will narrow it down!

(Lot of difference between a sparrow and a pheasant!)
 
It's hard to say from the pictures The first looks like a starling, the second looks like a song thrush and the third looks like a hedge sparrow. Difficult due to the juvenile feathers.

Not much help am I:confused:
 
I'd guess Thrush from it's chest colour but luckily Gary only brings home rabbits which he eats as I obviously don't buy him the right cat food ;D But then it could be a sparrow too but hard to gauge size from pic.

Good luck with birdie :)
 
No idea sorry but would anyone mind telling me what this is -

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(please excuse my awful fleece, it's a scruffy one I use for slobbing about in :o :o :o )

It fell down my chimney this morning and then sat on my arm for a good 5 mins before it flew off, it's only young I think but was bigger then a blackbird! I really should know what it is :o :o
 
Joeanne I looked at that website but it's only 2.5" 3" long and it's beak looks different to a starling. Also wrong colour it's beak and legs are orange, the pics on there are yellow. So confused, wish it could tell me what it was:confused::confused:

I also googled both (sparrow and starling) pictures and it looks like both in different pictures. I can't be doing to bad I've had it for 4 days and it's getting stronger as keeps wanting to wonder about, also it's started streaching it's wings. Sorry I keep calling it, it we did name it Jack. As we thought it was a sparrow, so Jack Sparrow, sad I know :)
 
No idea sorry but would anyone mind telling me what this is -

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(please excuse my awful fleece, it's a scruffy one I use for slobbing about in :o :o :o )

It fell down my chimney this morning and then sat on my arm for a good 5 mins before it flew off, it's only young I think but was bigger then a blackbird! I really should know what it is :o :o

That be a Jackdaw
 
Starling or Black Bird, put a young blackbird looking very similar to this back in the hedge out of the way of a cat and magpies the other day, Corvids are the worse thing for young birds, they will kill and eat them on site.
Oz :)
 
3 beasties that is a young jackdaw, they are often known to be quite freindly. OH reckons if you raise a young jacky you can get them as tame as parrots and they can learn to almost speak. My headmaster at school had one.

I think your chick is thrush or blackbird. starling chicks are black, whereas female blackbird and thrush chicks are brown. It certainly looks like blackbird and thrush chicks i have seen in the past.
 
This looks a bit like a blackbird chick, depends how big it is. It will have just flown the nest and the parents will be looking for it!
If you haven't handled it much, put it back where you found it somewhere off the ground where cats can't get to and hopefully the parents will find it again and resume feeding it. Otherwise you will have very little chance of keeping it alive yourself, you will need to feed it constantly during the day until it's old enough to fly away.
Please try putting it back near where you found it

Arghhh - sorry just seen you've had it a few days. Get as many worms and insects, caterpillars as you can find and feed it. it will still need feeding for a few days after it can fly but then it won't know how to look for food itself now, without the parents to teach it where to look - unless you can do that??
 
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I am trying to remember what mix we fed to baby birds, I *think* included mushed up dry dog food, boiled eggs, and def a few other bits on the end of a small painbrush, with added mealworms as they grew bigger.

I would suggest that you contact a local rescue and get them to take it on if possible as that will be its best chance. If not I would suggest you ring them (these are my locals am sure they would help http://www.secretworld.org/ and ask them what they would suggest feeding
 
If it has a speckled chest then it is a thrush. Live meal worms are best with the heads removed. If a cat has got it, it will need a small shot of antibiotics. It will also need feeding every couple of hours. If you can the best thing to do would be to hand it over to your local wildlife rescue. Good luck!
 
3 beasties that is a young jackdaw, they are often known to be quite freindly. OH reckons if you raise a young jacky you can get them as tame as parrots and they can learn to almost speak. My headmaster at school had one.

we had a pet jackdaw as kids, we called him jack. obviously. He used to sit on our shoulders and go for walks everywhere. he coiuld say his own name too.....;):D:rolleyes:
 
lol. Funnily enough thats what the headmasters jackdaw was called. It would swoop down in the playground and sit on his shoulder and could cackle on command. Unfortunately im not too keen on corvids, the next wild pet i want is a foxcub, but its far too late this season to get any :(

Why should she hand it over to a rescue if she is coping well herself. If its lasted the last few days then its probably going to last the rest. There is heaps of info on the internet and if its old enough to take food then she should be fine. chicks definitely tell you when they are hungry!
 
Think it looks like a thrush. Can I offer a few tips for you, it may help as we get loads of fledlings brought in this time of year.

Not sure how you are feeding it, but try using an artists paintbrush dipped in water and touching the side of its beak, also would be better fed with crushed insect mix mixed with water fed in the same way, which I think you can now buy from pets at home. The least handling and stimulation is better so don't worry about playing bird songs and don't talk to it. They like to perch even at that age so try putting small rocks or twigs in its envornment.

Good luck, its very rewarding when they make it x
 
I think the OP is doing a good job, it is great to hear it is growing bigger and stronger. Well done OP. Looks like either a thrush or blackbird to me (wrong shape to be a sparrow). I wouldn't worry about getting the right bird song too much, I have raised quite a few baby birds (also brought home by the cat) and never needed any birdsong to be successfull. The first one my parents made me take to the RSPCA (I was quite young at the time), and they said they would put it down, despite there being nothing wrong with it. So since then I have always just kept them and all bar one fledglings I've found have all successfully grown big enough to release again. Obviously the poster on here makes a good point about trying to put back near nest if possible but that isn't possible in this case as you don't know where the nest is. You can try a rescue centre though they may or may not help. Baby birds are a lot of work but also rewarding, well done for getting it this far.
 
Blackbird chick, scrambled egg(no milk) if you cann't get the live mealworms(drown them first) try dry, also get in touch with the RSPB and they will send you a leaflet and the 2nd photo Young Jackdaw (and they use to slit their tongues so that they could talk) read that somewhere many years ago.
 
I did manage to bring up a baby sparrow in my teens and set it free (A very long time ago now :)). So I will try with this one, as it's been said it's lived from friday. I did read that you could put teddy's in with them, just happens I have some teddy's that are birds!! I don't talk to it and have the plan of when it can fly to let it have a whole doubble bed room, then open the window and leave it open (after a week or so of it first staring to fly) so it can come and go as it likes untill it doesn't come back.

I have also emailed my local RSPB, asking what to do and what they think is the best plan of action. So will wait to see what they say.

Thanks to everyone with answers, I think it is a Thrush from looking at other pictures on google, strange as I've never seen one in our garden in the 2 years of living there!!!
 
I would get it flying properly and confidently before you set it free, last thing you want after all your hard work is for it so make a giant leap and end up back in your cats jaws.
 
We have hand raised many small birds and it's very difficult to guess at first. Yours looks very sparrowy, but also like a thrush and not a million miles away from our greenfinch. Good luck, we find if they survive the 1st 24 hrs they generally survive.
 
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