Wren’s are small fast birds that you can find in your own back garden, Their are over 10 million wren’s in the UK alone!. They have been localized to many towns (even maybe in your area) and are compact with quick reflexes and energy. The Wren have a beautiful song that is loud and full […]
Continue Reading The Common Wren
I am trying to keep a baby wren alive. The sibling has flown away and the mother bird has abandoned the other one. I’m not sure what to feed it. I fed it some raw egg earlier with an eyedroper – tomorrow I will try and dig up some worms and mash them up for it. Is there anything else I can do to keep it alive? It is very weak because of the mother not feeding it for a couple of days. I have kept it in the nest which is waist high, and have been handeling it with rubber gloves, just in case the mom comes back. Should I give it water. Thanks Nancy
we found a baby wren and we have been feeding it bird formula we bought from the store. we found out that it doesn’t matter if you touch the baby bird cause if the momma bird comes back she will still take care of the baby, even though you have touched it. we found the baby bird last monday and he is doing great.
dont touch baby birds because you will leave your sent behind on the bird and the nest.then the mom wont come back.
i was outside and i looked in this bush. i saw 4 baby wrens. i kept checking on them.and today they all left there nest im sad because i have been watching them for 3 weeks.
That is not a true statement, just an old wives tale.
It is a fallacy that birds will smell your scent and abandon their babies. They have no sense of smell. Please help them and do not worrry! They will see you and may not come back for a while, but most oftent they do return to take care of their young.
If you have to handle a baby bird it is untrue the parent will not come back to feed it, as long as the baby is put straight back as the call of the hungry baby overrides any scent left but do try to use gloves and do not handle them unless absolutely necessary.
I have picked up and placed fallen baby birds back into their nests and the mother has always returned to take care of them so it is not true that your scent will stop her from returning.
Humans scent will not matter if you touch baby birds. It is an old wives tale.Birds have a limited sense of smell. Mothers may reject their young if they feel it is weak or ill.
we to found 4 wrens we have been having sucess with can dog food and a pair of twizer.we add just enough water to keep it moist .good luck
I found a eyes closed baby Wren on the ground. I am glad that I look down when I did. It was cold and HUNGREY. I took it in and housed it in a round small bow on a wash clothes and started feeding it small worms as fast as it wood eat them. When it went to sleep I checked the internet for food to feed besides insects since there are many that I am not sure to feed.Suggestion was soft scrambled egg through out the day as well as insects,cook oat meal, and now I am feeding baby chick food medicated.He started out with one leg that did not function and now the other leg is loosing mobility. I haven the heart to let it die and it eats like crazy as well as chirps/sings all days. It has all it features now and works his wing when I exercise it about 4 time a day by holding it with thumb and finger to support it. It seems to enjoy this. Seens that will be its life until…….
It sound like really young wren or a lazy one.
We found a baby starling which was uncooperative when being fed worms and had to be forced fed. We then purchased live maggots (from a fishing-bait shop) and feeding became easy, as soon as it realized it could eat them, it was pecking them off the ground. A fledgling wren will be a lot smaller than a young starling, but the maggot technique should work.
Normally birds gain there water from there food. But if your worried of dehydration you can dip the food your feeding it in water or rub a wet finger around its beak, if its really thirsty it will drink from your finger.
A Wrens natural diet is Beetles, spiders and anything that crawls in between thin rocks and lump of rotting wood. Use tweezers when feeding and it should ideally be fed every 30 minutes, if the maggot technique works feeding will become easier.
If you do have to force feed there’s a possibility you will bruise its beak, but this will heal.
PS: you may find force feeding cruel but a bruise on its beak is better than starvation!
By the way: if you have any pictures of the wren we are more than happy to post them here.
GOOD LUCK! ;0
Kyle Wal :)
we found 3 baby wrens outside our backyard.
the nest fell over in gusting winds, andi grabbed all three babies and brought them inside.
i have them in a heated blanket and im only feeding them raw egg, i need advice on what to do next.
-Rebecca
I have been trying to care for 5 house wrens for almost 3 weeks. They were probably about 3 days old when I ‘rescued’ them. The little guys did great, they were eating and flying. I was taking them outside everyday. They werent trying to find insects on their own. Two of them died in the past 24 hours. I am trying to figure out what I did wrong. My advice to you is read everything you can find about caring for baby wrens. I’ve been feeding them a mixture of canned cat food, mashed up dry cat food moistened, oats, peanut butter, and mashed cooked egg yolks. They were always hungry and I may have overfed them. Maybe wrong kind of food. I may have made them too cold by trying to clean them because they kept dragging their tails in their poop. The research I’ve done repeatedly says how fragile they are and how quick they can get ill. They can get fluid in their lungs if the food is too moist, or if the food isn’t put far enough back in their throat. I wish you and the little birds the best. Please post on here how the little guys do. Need Wings
I found a baby wren with all it’s feathers in the bottom of a trash can that was near the nest.
All the other wrens were gone. I put the baby wren back in the nest and waited all day to see if the mother would come back for it. The baby wren kept calling out and after it became dark and clear that the mother wasn’t coming back, I brought the baby bird inside and brought part of it’s nest in an attempt to make it feel at home. I have a parrot so I moistened some of it’s food and gave it a small amount in an eye dropper since I’m not sure how much or what to feed this little bird.
Can you please help me? I need your advice.
Thanks,
Linda
wrens eat spiders and other insects. feed it that.
if you feed maggots to any very young bird make sure you kill the maggot first by running tweezers through it as live maggots will eat bird from inside
I AM HAD RAINSING 3 BABY WRENS. SMASHED UP DOG KIBBLE IN WARM SURGAR WATER, HARD BOILED EGG YOKE, AND BABY RICE CERAL,,,,,WORKS WONDERS. THE SHRIMP OF THE BROOD IS GROWING AND GIVING HIS SIBLINGS A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY. I HAVE ONLY HAD THEM FOR 4 DAYS AND THEY ALREADY KNOW WHEN THE CAGE DOOR MOVES ITS FEEDING TIME….AND YES YOU HAVE TO FEED EVERY 30 45 MINUTES DURING THE DAY LIGHT HOURS ONLY. THANK GOODNESS THEY SLEEP ALL NIGHT,.
OK,
Just yesturday Jenna found a baby Wren and we are helping her stay alive but we don’t really like to pick up spiders and insects and we think that the baby bird is sick!!!!
EJL
We have 2 baby wrens in a birdhouse outside our back door. All was going well, but today, the babies have been screeching all day and no signs of the parents. Is this the parents way of teaching their babies it is time to go out on their own? They appear big enough to fly but have not done so. What should we do?
I found a small spotted egg on the ground today. I thing it may be a wren egg. It was in the sun and still warm. I have made it a little nest and have it under a lamp. If it is a wren, how long should I wate to see if it hatches?
A Wrens eggs can hatch in 4 – 5 Weeks but it dosent sound like a Wrens but more like a cuckoo.
Kyle Wal :)
found a baby wren. it fell out of the nest.. i do not know if it is hurt or just in shock.. also i do not know what to feed him beings i do not know how old he is… what should i do please help?!?!?!?
A wren egg hatches in about 14-16 days and the bird is ready to leave the nest in about 2 to 3 weeks after hatching.
Hi, just read all the above. I saw this chick hopping in the road, round with quite long legs, only guessing it’s a wren, but also bald around the back end? Anyway, not too sure what to do with it. HELP!! I have picked it off the road and put it in the hedgerow at the rear of my garden as don’t want to frighten it to death, but feel I should be doing something. Any ideas? Don’t want it to just die – poor little thing!
I’m at my wits end! have 3 baby wrens still with downy fur rather than feathers, in a nest in some windchimes on the patio, parent been so active feeding them for 3 days constantly! but ive not seen parent since 8 last night, chicks almost falling out of nest and constantly calling, i’m so upset and not sure what to do..i work 8 til 3 each day so i cant always keep ann eye out as to what will happen..any advice! Many thanks Nat
I have 5 baby wrens,only 2 to 5 days old. I went to a local pet store (that fish place in lancaster Pa ) and purchased Exact baby bird formula.Ihave been feeding them with a syringe for baby medicine.They are all doing great!you have to remove the droppings immediately.and also keep the food off their feathers.In 1 week i started to introduce the bugs.They were a little shy at first but they get the hang of it.I am going to band them to see if they return!!
We had a Wren nest under our deck. One of the babies (much larger) left the nest and the parents followed abandoning the two smaller babies. I suspect the much larger baby was not a Wren but a parasite cowbird baby. The unsuspecting Wren parents do not know they have left their own babies to follow and care for this cowbird baby. Cowbirds are parasites and lay their eggs in other birds nests. After about 24 hours of no parent feeding we have started feeding the babies ourselves. The Wren babies are quite young and I think we will need some prayers if this is going to work.
Hi, I found a very small brownish fledgling yesterday – I thought he might either be a sparrow or a wren. I have been feeding it meal worms cut in half (eeurgh) which it is eating every 30 or so mins. He has got a very upright tail, perhaps more likely to be a wren? unfortunately he has a leg injury where the leg goes out in a straight line behind him, dislocated hip perhaps?? if anyone has any good advice i look forward to hearing it. but thanks for the forum, very interesting and informative!!
i went to the vet today to get something for my cat, and there was a lady there with a baby wren, probably just a couple of days out of the nest since its tail feathers are so short. i suggested she put it back where she found it, but she took it in last night, so it was too late to bring it back to the parents.
i took it from her because she didn’t want to keep it. Now i’m trying to hand feed it, but i’m not sure what to feed it. i’m trying cat food right now, mixed with a little water to get it in the dropper. i guess i’ll be taking a baby bird to class with me tomorrow!
if anyone has any suggestions, please please let me know. i work with birds in the wild, but i am not really sure what i’m doing with this one.
hi i also have found a nest on the ground in which is i think 3 baby fairy wrens .im going to feed them soaked cat nuts .i will see how i go with it .thanks to everyone for all the info on here
My pretty little bengal kitten brought me a gift of a very quiet (but breathing) baby wren, I have no idea where she has brought it in from, no idea about the age it could have been from the nest or maybe old enough to have been hopping around on the floor. I felt distraught so last night…… and I can not believe I did this, i cut up a slug and fed it using tweasers (now I feel guilty about the slug)… I made a nest in a china bowl using cotton wool pads and a few soft leaves (to make it feel like home).
this morning (at 5.00) I have a chirpy little thing that is hopping and looking much more confident. So the dilema is, is it ok, should I let it go and keep the cat in for a day or two, to give it a fighting chance, or should I try and feed it for a few days?
have a brood of young wrens in a man-made spruce nest in my garden,,,noticed that the adults had seemed to have disappeared altogether and the young were making a right racket and were almost falling out the nest,,,i think they must only be a week old max….but who am i to say? so waited for signs of adult visits,,,none happened,,,took decision to start feeding them chopped worms,,,thought i would give them a fighting chance,,hoping the adults may return otherwise may get some maggots tommorrow and keep feeding them…seems to be working so far….play it by ear i guess?? any advice.. my expectations of them surviving are realistically low but worth a try, i think….
my comment to Campbell is to keep feeding them in till they start trying to fly off your doing the right thing feeding them small pieces of food don’t forget to occasionally dunk the worms in water so the wrens get liquids.
if it is a week old it should be a fluffy white or brown color with a small beak if it cant open its eyes its younger than a week.
use twisers so they don’t get use to humans there’s nothing worse than a bird not being afraid from a human being.
Kyle Law :D
Hope i could help.
Ive been taking care of several wrens for about a week. Our local nature center told me to feed the birds dry cat food that has been soaked in water till soft. Works great and the birds love it. A good alternative till I can release them.
Good Work Regina they should released in 2 to 3 weeks time just keep doing what your doing Keep me posted.
Kyle :D
I found a Wren fledling in parking garage at work yesterday. His legs are straight in front and he sits on his hind end. It’s eating mashed finch food soaked in water very well from a syringe. Not sure if injured or just too young to stand on those long legs.
I found a juvenile wren in the middle of the road. It doesn’t fly or sing but it eats mealworms. I just don’t know how many to give it and I don’t know if that is a balanced diet. any ideas?