Help with a baby animal?

Get some mealworms! They're great for baby birds. If you get live ones, make sure you cut the tips off each end as they can eat through a baby bird's stomach. If you get dried ones (easier to find), soak them in water before you feed the bird. Birds don't drink unless they're very dehydrated, they get most of their moisture from juicy insects and grubs.

Don't handle him too much, and feed him with tweezers. Unless you want a pet pigeon, don't let him get too attached!

Feel free to email me with any questions as he grows older.

Baby pigeons are very hard to raise. In the wild, squab (baby pigeons) are fed a "crop milk" that the parents produce. They are fed that substance exclusively for the first 10 days of their lives, before the parents start introducing solid food.

Pigeons are NOT insect eaters. They eat seed. But before the squab is old enough to eat seed on his own, you would need to hand feed him a formula that will be as nutritious as the crop milk. The hand-feeding formulas designed for parrots, parakeets, cockatiels, etc. do not have the nutrition that a pigeon needs.

The absolute best thing you can do for the baby is take him back to where you found him. If he has most of his feathers, he is a fledgling. Baby birds fledge (leave the nest) before they can fly. They need to hop around on the ground and climb low branches and exercise their wings until they have strengthened them enough for flight. The parent birds continue to feed and care for the fledglings until they are self-sufficient. So if you take the baby back and let him go where you found him, his parents will be able to continue feeding him the proper food.

While your dad has the very best of intentions on helping this baby pigeon he could find himself in serious legal trouble.

Call the A.S.P.C.A. or your state wildlife agency and find how to contact the local avian rehabilitation expert. Then, bring the bird there. They're trained in how to help injured and baby birds without allowing them to lose their vital wild survival instincts. I know this will be hard for you and your family, but it's in the birds' best interests and in the best interest of your family.

Pigeons do not eat mealworms or any other insects. Baby pigeons are fed crop milk from their parents...If they lose their parents they need to be tube-fed baby bird formula every few hours or so...Please take it to a wildlife rehabilitator so It can get proper care from experienced individuals.

Yeah, animal toddlers are way cuter. i think of lambs are the cutest animal toddlers! and that they don't cry once you touch them! Human toddlers make me disturbing because of the fact if I touch them they are going to scream and cry and positively everybody looks at me disgustedly as though asserting 'why in the international do you want to break such an harmless, stunning little toddler?'

First of all, try to find a local wildlife rehabilitator. It is against Federal law to even touch a wild bird. All native birds are protected by law.

Do some yahoo and google searches. Type in Pigeon

and read & learn.