House sparrows? My niece has raised one since it was maybe a couple days old and fell out of it's nest on her back porch early this past summer. I'm surprised that she was able to feed it at such a young age and raise it to now......
While she's home, it has the run of the house but she has to be careful since she has a couple of dogs.
She said she hasn't released it into the wild because it has a deformed foot.
She named her Grace, after her grandmother.
They’re hardy and easy to raise. We’ve raised them from completely featherless, fallen from the nest.
We give them regular Purina Cat Chow, soaked - not the kind for kittens, because you don’t want to give them any dairy stuff. Just pinch little pieces off and stuff it in there every hour or so.
(One vet told me that it was probably too ‘high test’ and I should give them something else, but several of mine have lived to be 10 years old, and I’m not going to mess with success.)
We had one that would sing along with music on the television.