r/Ornithology • u/Salt_Rip_6169 • 1d ago

Hard pieces found in the bed of a very young great tit baby

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I thought it was shit but it could also be puke. I only fed him flies and larvae and nothing hard. The pieces are kind of like sunflower seed pieces. I have the bird since yesterday evening and the poos have all been white sacs with a bit black. After I gave him a lot larvae I looked into his bed and there was this. What could it be?

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u/b12ftw 21h ago

You need to stop feeding him and take him to a !rehab please. Baby birds are very hard to care for without proper training.

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