Miner Bird Injured?

if it's possible you should take it to a vet or bird breeder or something otherwise it will proberly die i've tried to look after a few adult minor birds when i found them injured and fed them worms but they all died from stress in the end. sorry i couldn't be of more use.

It probably needs a wildlife rehabber. Call your local vet and see if they can direct you to one. In the meantime,feed it fruit,nectar and insects.

The Noisy Miner primarily eats nectar, fruit and insects, and occasionally it feeds on small reptiles or amphibians. It is both arboreal and terrestrial, feeding in the canopy of trees and on trunks and branches and on the ground. It forages within the colony’s territory throughout the year, usually in groups of five to eight birds although hundreds may gather at a stand of flowering trees such as banksia. The Noisy Miner collects nectar directly from flowers, hanging upside down or straddling thin branches acrobatically to access the nectar; it takes fruit from trees or fallen on the ground; gleans or hawks for invertebrates; and picks through leaf litter for insects. It has been recorded turning over the dried droppings of Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) searching for insects.[49]

An immature bird (with brownish feathers) eats a mealworm.

In a study of birds foraging in suburban gardens, the Noisy Miner was seen to spend more time in banksia, grevillea and eucalypt species, and when in flower, Callistemon, than in other plants including exotics. Most time was spent gleaning the foliage of Eucalypts, and Noisy Miners were significantly more abundant in sites where Eucalypts were present. The Noisy Miner can meet most of its nutritional needs from manna, honeydew and lerp gathered from the foliage of Eucalypts.[26] Lower numbers of Noisy Miner were recorded at banksias and grevilleas than other large honeyeaters such as Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) and Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata).[50]

Detailed studies of the diet of the Noisy Miner record it eating a range of foods including: spiders; insects (leaf beetles, ladybirds, stink bugs, ants, moth and butterfly larvae); nectar (from Jacaranda mimosifolia, Erythrina variegata, Lagunaria patersonia, Callistemon salignus, Callistemon viminalis, Eucalypts Argyle Apple, Sugar Gum, Yellow Gum, Grey Ironbark, and Grey Gum, Banksia ericifolia, B. integrifolia, B. serrata, Grevillea aspleniifolia, G. banksii, G. hookeriana, G. juniperina, G. rosmarinifolia, and Flowering Quince); seeds from oats, wheat and Pepper Tree; fruit from Saltbush, Mistletoe and Crabapple; frogs and skinks; and other matter such as bread, pieces of meat and cheese, and food scraps.[49]

In the first study to demonstrate different learning techniques in a single species, the Noisy Miner was found to employ different cognitive strategies depending upon the resource it was foraging. When searching for nectar, which does not move but is readily depleted, the Noisy Miner uses a spatial memory-based strategy, identifying characteristics of the environment—a strategy that is efficient in new environments and is not affected by changes in the bird’s activities. When searching for invertebrates, however, it appears to employ a different strategy based on learned rules of insect movement (they improve at finding invertebrates with practice). The two different strategies imply the existence of adapted cognitive mechanisms, capable of responding appropriately to different foraging contexts.[51]