Wild Bird Pro

Identifying wild bird eggs generally requires a thorough field guide, as there are no hard and fast rules about which eggs belong to which type of bird. Avoid activity around a bird nest during the incubation period with advice from a professional wildlife biologist and naturalist in this free video on bird eggs.

Expert: Bo Brown
Bio: Bo Brown is a professional wildlife biologist, naturalist and wilderness survival instructor.
Filmmaker: Kevin Leeper

Duration : 0:1:38

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my mom was in our backyard and she was moving her flower pot and she found 5 newborn wild birds. what do i do to make sure they are ok and that they get the right foods?

If the bird is fully feathered, it is most likely a fledgling and has left the nest on it’s own and it’s parents are caring for it. It is normal for birds to leave the nest before they can fly. You need to replace it where you found it..preferably in a scrub or tree so it is relatively safe from predators, and the parents should come back to feed it. If it is unfeathered…then look for a nest and if you can find it…replace it into the nest. Do not worry about your scent being on the chick..birds have a very poorly developed sense of smell and will NOT reject a baby that has been touched. If you cannot find a nest, get the bird to a local wildlife rehab for it’s best chance of survival. Also, keep in mind, it is illegal for you to try and raise this bird on your own.

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Learn bird watching tips for backyard birding in this free bird watching video

Expert: Wayne R. Petersen
Bio: Wayne R. Petersen is director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas (IBA) program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

Duration : 0:2:26

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Birds aren’t like babies—you can’t expect them to pick up speech just by babbling away at them. You need a plan.

To complete this How-To you will need:

The right breed of bird
Time
Treats
Patience

Step 1: Pick the right breed

If you haven’t already bought Tweety, pick a breed that is known for its chattiness. Amazon parrots and African greys are the gabbiest, followed by macaws, male cockatiels, mynahs, and parakeets.

Tip: Female cockatiels, female budgies, grass parakeets, rosellas, and canaries don’t talk.

Step 2: Choose an inquisitive bird

Once you’ve narrowed your choices to a talkative breed, focus your attention on choosing a bird that seems alert and interested in what’s going on around him. These are clues that he’ll make a good talker.

Step 3: Get a young bird

Get a young bird. Like the proverbial old dog who can’t learn new tricks, an older bird is going to have more trouble picking up speech.

Step 4: Name that bird

Give the bird a name that is no more than two syllables. A longer name reduces the chances that he will learn to say his own name.

Step 5: Designate a teacher

If you’re married and/or have children, pick one person to teach the bird. If several people are trying to instruct the bird, it will only confuse it.

Tip: Birds learn more easily from women.

Step 6: Time your training

Start training at the optimal time. For smaller birds, that’s at four to six months. For bigger birds, wait until they’re six to twelve months.

Tip: Don’t teach a bird to whistle before training him to talk, or it will make the speech lessons that much harder.

Step 7: Keep it simple

Start training by saying a few simple words to Tweety, always using them under the same circumstances. For example, you could say “Good morning” every day when you first rise, and you could reserve “Bye” for when the bird can see you walk out the door.

Step 8: Repeat words

Repeat the words several times in each instance. You want the bird to start associating the sound you are making with the context.

Step 9: Reward speech

Give Tweety a treat every time he repeats something you are teaching him.

Tip: Remember that birds don’t just repeat what you want them to; they mimic sounds they hear. So if you’re suffering a bout of loud flatulence, or getting ready to rip someone a new one, stay out of Tweety’s earshot.

Step 10: Unteach them

If Tweety has picked up a bad word, washing his mouth out with soap won’t work. But ignoring him when he repeats the word will, because getting your attention is his main incentive.

Step 11: Enjoy

Now enjoy chatting with your fine-feathered friend!

Duration : 0:2:39

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From British Columbia the summer home of a variety of tropical hummingbirds, this close and slow look at amazing hummingbirds. Soundtrack is ‘The Orient’ by Alex Yiannaras

Duration : 0:6:31

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Make this Bird Feeder in 5 minutes. At the end I show you how I make a little play gym that you can hang near a perch outside the cage for additional play space.

This is environmentally friendly way to use those plastic bottles so that we can extend their use, and recycle old toy parts.

I think all birds need as much room as you can afford to share with them.

Good luck and have fun with it.

Disclaimer – Children should not try to make this with out adult supervision with the tools or knives or scissors.

Duration : 0:9:33

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I’ve a big park in the back of my house loaded with many wild birds. I did put a bird feed station in my rear garden a week ago. I loaded it with fat balls, seeds, nuts and water plate. Yet, not a single bird approached. Any thoughts.

Keep all perts away from the garden and put out some bird feeders and some seeds or plant some flowers and plants that attract birds. Put out many different types of food this will get you a larger varity of birds thanks john

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July 7, 2009: The Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps, order: Podicipediformes, Family: Podicipedidae) is a pelagic bird, spending all of its life in the water.

This baby has been with us a couple of weeks. He is growing fast and weighed 34 grams this morning. His current home is an incubator in ICU at IBRRC. Most of the time he snuggles into a soft feather duster. The floor of his home is covered with a towel, and there is a small mirror, so he has a friend.

He spends about 45 minutes to an hour in the incubator, and then hes ready to eat, in his own pool. We feed him tiny pieces of smelt and live minnows. When he is put into his pool, he immediately defecates, just as he would in the wild, when he would jump off his parent’s back and into the water. He swims around and is fed. We put our open hand in the water for him to swim into, when he is ready to get out. Then he goes back into the incubator, snuggling into the feather duster once more.

When he is fully feathered and given a thumbs up by our veterinarian, he will be put into one of our outdoor pools, with other grebes. Or he may be transferred to another wildlife center which has grebes like him. Eventually, he will be banded and released into the wild.

“The Pied-billed Grebe is rarely seen in flight. It prefers to escape predators by diving, and it migrates at night. However, it can fly, and stray individuals have reached Hawaii and Europe.

Although it swims like a duck, the Pied-billed Grebe does not have webbed feet. Instead of having a webbing connecting all the toes, each toe has lobes extending out on the sides that provide extra surface area for paddling.

The downy chicks can leave the nest soon after hatching, but they do not swim well at first and do not spend much time in the water in the first week. They sleep on the back of a parent, held close beneath its wings. By the age of four weeks, the young grebes are spending day and night on the water.

For the first ten days their response to danger is to climb onto a parent’s back. After that, when danger threatens, they dive under water.”

Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology: All About Birds.

Duration : 0:3:2

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