Small mousebird need help with age and requirements

[careliezev]

Good day

Our cat brought a small mouse bird to our door step. I just wanted to his/her age and what i should feed it, i have hand reared birds before but this is a littel different. Its quite strong and active and it only has seeds and water for 2 days now and seems to be doing okay. I tried to feed him some baby bird food but his not very interested.. Please help me out.. Thanks o

 

[Ali]

Mousebird care and species information

Here are links to recovered information posted by Susanne Russo; Mousebird species size and weight: https://web.archive.org/web/20160519222735/http://www.mousebirds.com/species-size-and-weight.html Visual difference between species...

forums.avianavenue.com

 

[Kassiani]

I love Mousebirds!!! Kateri Davis has also written a good book about Mousebirds in Aviculture, but I don't know if it's available online.

 

[Zara]

Welcome Cara

Cute little guy! Lucky he´s ok!

There´s a good link all about hand-feeding in the thread Ali linked for you above.
There´s also Sarahs (Snada) telephone number if you are in South Africa, she works at a rehab centre there.

 

[Sparkles99]

Rehab sounds ideal! The little guy'd likely want to get back on his feet (wings?) & go back outside once recovered.

 

[budgieluv3]

I had no idea what a mousebird was before this. Good luck!

 

[faislaq]

@Cayleigh-Anne had good luck raising the one she found. Not sure if she gets email alerts, but it's worth a try.

Here's the thread: What kind of Mousebird do I have?

 

[BirdWorld]

I can't help here, know nothing about mousebirds, but he sure is cute!

 

[expressmailtome]

This thread may also be helpful: baby mousebird needs help .

 

[faislaq]

Of course there's always @Birdbabe who is a miracle worker when it comes to rehabbing animals. She may not have treated mousebirds specifically, but I'll bet she'll know what to do.

 

[Birdbabe]

Thank you for helping him! Mousebirds,,,,,safe fruits, berries, seed, a member here has mousebirds, but cannot think of her name, hopefully, shes still here and will see this! Theres a thread here called ",soft bill circle "..could help you..