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Belinda dont take it to the vet UNLESS it has an injury.
Some vets dont respond well to native wildlife... Wires has a list of vets that are okay with taking natives, so call them to find out the closest native-friendly vet to you.
From memory, theres one in Dural or the next suburb along.
 
Cool, I am 5 minutes or so from dural. It;s about 2 minutes from our paddocks. My brother has just finished his HSC, so he's home all day and has helped out with the birds before. I'll get him to look after it tommorrow, and when I get back from school I'll contact WIRES.
 
It would be preferable if you could go back to where you found it in the morning and check for its parents. They will be wondering where their baby went.
As it is fledgling it was obviously trying to fly.

If they aren't there, then contact Wires in the morning. That way they can get someone out to you during the day. If you call them in the afternoon it might not be possible to get someone there in time... get what I mean?

The office closes at 4pm anyway so try and get it sorted out before then. Leaving the bird for that long without proper care can be very detrimental!
 
Ok Pinkie...What time does office open? The bird seems alot more active with the heat pad now....I feed my horses in the morning so I'll check if the parents are there. If not if the office opens early i ring before school and get my brother to give it to them when they arrive....

What number do i contact them on?
 
Sound good to me Belinda, good on you.
The office opens at 10am, so you might have to get your brother to give them a ring then and keep an eye on the miner until someone gets there.
In the meantime the heat pad sounds great, leave him alone if you dont want to stress him out, he doesn't really need to eat until tomorrow morning. But if he is active and chirpy, you can try to give him some of the mashed banana using a paddle popp stick, dropper or biro cover.
If you hold it above his head when he's chirpy he should gape for it, then just pop it in while he's gaping :)
Dont have to worry about water for now.
Hope it all works out for you :D
 
8977 3333

If its before 10am or after 4pm it will go to our message service so leave your name and number and one of our friendly volunteers will return the call when they get a chance :)

Just bear in mind that little noisy miners are fragile birds and they often die in care, even with specialist carers... If it does happen to die its not your fault, and its better than your brought it inside so it was peaceful rather than lying out in the cold, or attacked by another animal.
 
Thanks for all Your help Pinkie... You have taken alot of stress off my shoulders :)
 
No probs :)
I've answered many a call about baby noisy miners over the years lol. Its good to talk to people who care about our natives!
 
Even if its not native, I love it! When did you become a WIRE worker pinkie? I am intersted in volunteering when i am older.
 
I just feed him and he ate really well. He's settled down for bed so hopefully it all goes well.
 
If it is the Noisy Miner Manorina melancephala then it is a honey eater. Dispite the honey eater tag it feeds mainly on insects but also nectar and some fruits (apparently including banana).
Now here comes the hard part. They have small nest and the young fledge early (at 16 days), in fact they can barely fly. At this (very dangerous) stage of life the animal is call a branchling and is still looked after the colony. On the Gold Coast the colonies were only about a dozen but winter colonies here in Adelaide can number over 100 birds. The branchling stage only lasts a few days.
When you picked up the bird did other birds come flying up to the area and start complaining loudly, (real loud, they ain't called noisy miners for nothing). They would have sat in branchs about 3 meters of the ground and told you off. They may have even dive bombed you, but the dive bombing is strictly non-contact. If that is what happened then the best thing you can do is try and re-introduce it, first thing in the morning preferbly 1/2 hour after first light. Take it back and place it back where you found it. Then back up about 10 meters and watch. On sighting other members of the colony it should start making a near constant "mip,mip" sound. You'll reconize the sound if you have Noisy Miners in the area. The sound should induce the adults to feed it. If you see it feed then the you can let the colony take over.
 
Ok...And what happens if the birds dont feed it..?

You are really knowledgeable Fuscus! Good on ya!
 
I have falling for branchings before, they look so helpless. So I know where you are coming from. Did the adult birds behave as I described?
One of the major problems with hand rearing Noisy Miners is that when they are released they are not a member of a group. This dramatically reduces the birds chances as the established groups will proberly mob the new release.
 
Hmmm....Yea that did act like that. But the bub looked weak a dreary and I couldnt resist.
 
I have a friend who cares for sick/injured/orphaned birds. She feeds all her miners on very lean mince with insectivore mixed through and some calcium. Meal worms. Egg and biscuit with a syringe. Mashed banana.
 
buy some handrearing mixture from a shop and add apple sauce chicken and sweetcorn baby food and smooth peanut butter and warm water so it is runny then feed with a suringe thats how i handrear my whiteface cockatiels and indian ringneck mutations and my uncle rears macaws and conures and red tailed black coacatoos and stuff on it
 
Macaws? Did you say MACAWS? They sell for like 10 grand! i'd kill for one of those in my bird collection!!!!!
 
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