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07-06-2009, 08:02 PM
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| | | unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
HI
please could someone help with an ID for this chick - brounght into house last night by the cat.
Handed over to someone who has hand-reared gardens birds before - but they dont know what it is either.
Looks like a dick to me -but no water near us and it doesnt have webbed feet.
many thanks
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07-06-2009, 08:04 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
Woodpigeon. |
07-06-2009, 08:04 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
The beak looks pigeon-like
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08-06-2009, 05:10 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
We get both pidgeon and collared doves nests on the bridge where i work and it is definetly one of the two. |
08-06-2009, 06:01 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
Hi richjam000, it looks like a Wood Pigeon to me to. Check you spelling before posting - it certainly isn't a Dick, nor a Duck 
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08-06-2009, 10:07 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
It i either a baby pigeon or a baby dove, either way, it needs hand rearing formula, fed with a syringe.
Very difficult if they have never done it before, easy if you know how. I use Kaytee Exact or Hagen Tropican. |
08-06-2009, 10:23 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
Woodie Squab,
it'll need a thin porridge of tongue-warm soft boiled broken wheat and grains, lots and often or owlmomma's formula, either is good via a syringe. Good luck! |
09-06-2009, 09:37 AM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
I must admit I'd have thought it was a duck too  |
09-06-2009, 01:12 PM
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| | | Re: unknown garden bird. fluffy chick with a big beak
Quote:
Originally Posted by richjam000  HI
please could someone help with an ID for this chick - brounght into house last night by the cat.
Handed over to someone who has hand-reared gardens birds before - but they dont know what it is either.
Looks like a dick to me -but no water near us and it doesnt have webbed feet.
many thanks
Richjam | Yeah - it's a pigeon by the looks of things, however if it has been brought in by a cat it will need a shot of amoxycillin even if it hasn't punctured the skin. Cat's teeth are covered in bacteria that often causes septacaemia and kills birds within 48hrs.
Does your friend work for a wildlife rescue organisation? If not, call the RSPCA and they'll take it to one. | | |
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