Feeding an abandoned baby magpie

We found this baby sitting in our street apparently abandoned. We left Maggie ( we decided to call her/him) for the day to see if parents would come back and feed her, as instructed by the RSPB. When it was obvious she was abandoned and was very dehydrated we took her in for a couple of hours to rehydrate and feed her. The RSPCA came and rescued her to take her to volunteer rehabilitators. It would have been cute to keep her but apparently they become tame in as little as 2 days and would not have been able to be released in the wild once she grew older.

[@dannisan77]

That's a cute bundle of fluff. We need more kind people in this world.

[@bahmanzare1073]

BEUTIFULL LITTLE GIRL ❤

[@Gaibreel]

Omg it’s so fluffy I wanna cuddle it forever

[@RoninRen]

Hmm, other than spaghetti noodles and tomato sauce, they pretty much pick clean the remaining turkey I left out for the dogs(even once saw a magpie fly off with a rib bone)

[@ShadowriverUB]

I think you confuse baby more then helping with that sound XD Mother usally don't make any sound during feeding, they just open open beak once they see parent or feel shake in nest, if not they probably make short noice which magpies can do

[@my_dixie_rect8538]

Shadowriver it might not be what happens in nature but I can assure you it won't confuse the bird. It's called Pavlovian Conditioning. Any and all animals can associate a noise or action with food. If you look you'll see the bird open its mouth ready when the noise is made before food has been presented to it.

[@skyew.5071]

I fed mine soaked dog biscuits and mince . I then bought some Insectapro and mixed it in. I now 1 week later mix it up between boiled egg from my chooks mince and insectapro and dog buiscuits if I run out of mince
I don’t make that annoying fuckin noise when I feed my small young magpie found on road
Good luck

[@shrutithegreat]

🤩🤩🤩

[@Sawrattan]

How did you leave it out without predators coming? Was it just a risk RSPB recommended, or was it caged at least?

[@jonahbaby]

The RSPB said to leave for a while in case it's parents were around, it was a risk I had to take. I had to collect my kids. It was a really hot day so I just moved it slightly in the shade of a hedge. A few hours later, the RSPCA said to cage her and they collected her

[@Sawrattan]

@@jonahbaby ah thanks for clarifying.

[@DrFamine]

What do you feed to him?

[@jonahbaby]

I mashed up some soft cat food. Didn't really know what to do so made that noise like the adult birds to try get him to open his mouth

[@DrFamine]

Oh, okay, thanks.

[@sunflowerprincess]

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[@frankprior9376]

What was this annoying noise?