Found a baby bird help

[Mrs. PBJ]

Ok so he was walking around screaming so i put him behind a bush with a towel and a box.

We have tons and tons of birds so i figure mom is in one of these nest around here and will find him. With 2 adult cats and a dog I don't feel safe bringing him inside.

I used gloves to hold him and its warm outside so he wont cur-come to the cold or anything.

He curled up and went to sleep in the box and towel.

I wont bother him and just check on him in the morning the only option is our shelter who is in contact with a wild life rehabber.

I did not give him any food or water I am hoping moms finds him before a cat does. We have a lot of cats around here.

Did i do the right thing?

 

[RandomWiktor]

It sounds like the bird is probably a fledgeling who was noisly calling to him mom for food or protection. If a baby bird is found well-feathered and alert, the best course of action is indeed to leave them where you found them unless they are in iminent danger. He may very well still be there in the morning, but if he is acting well, I doubt he is orphaned. You should avoid disturbing him and the area as much as possible for now, as mother birds carefully watch and even your presence peeking through a window may make her feel unsafe approaching.

Generally if a baby bird is at this stage, it will be flying in mere days, so hopefully it can avoid cats until then.

 

[Mrs. PBJ]

Yes I am not sure what kind of birds we have around here. But he was fully feather he looked my a mini me to the birds around here same feathers and all.

Oh I can not see him from my window. You can not even see the box if you stand over the bush its a small box smaller then a shoe box.

I am not going to look again tell morning I will even not bother him again tell tomorrow night if he is still there tomorrow night when I get home from work I may call the rehabber to come look at him and tell me. But I still would not handle him again at all. I have her number but I don't feel he is in any danger and he could fly very very very short distance.

To be honest his mom was most likely close or he had just been kicked out of the nest. I just wanted to make sure putting him a box was the right thing it has low sides so he can hop out but I thought he might need a safe place tell moms comes back.

 

[Luluznewz]

My concern with baby birds is that their mothers cant really move them back into the nest. At my barn the babies often fall or get pushed from the nest and cant get back even though their mothers are flapping around them very upset.

When this happens we just take them to the wildlife rehab center. They are cared for there and then released right back where they found the bird. I feel like sometimes they do better that way.

If the little bird is still there tomorrow I would take it to a wildlife center if you have one. I have really excellent ones here that release hundreds of little birds together so they can start a new colony (hahah orphaned babies uniting). If you dont have a nice center like that maybe its better to wait longer.

 

[Nela]

Luluznewz wrote:

My concern with baby birds is that their mothers cant really move them back into the nest. At my barn the babies often fall or get pushed from the nest and cant get back even though their mothers are flapping around them very upset.

I always wonder about that. I ask myself how they are going to be protected if the mom can't take the bird back to the nest. I know the 'right' thing to dois to leave it and let the mom come for it but I would have suuuuuuuch a hardtime doing it myself. I mean, if it's squeaking for mom, doesn't that just attract predators more? Surely a cat would get to it easily? How does it work? There are so many birds here I am sure I am bound to face a similar situation at some point. So how do you go about it?

Hoping the lil one is safe

 

[Luluznewz]

I'm not sure what the "right" way to go about it is. I suppose its let nature take its course...but I dunno I cant just let the little guy stay in the middle of a concrete barn isle.

My situation is a little different. Most of the time the babies I find are much too young to survive out of the nest and have no hope of getting back into it. I'm not sure if its the right way to do it, but all baby birds who are out of the nest and cant fly get sent to wildcare around here. They rehab them (the wildlife center said that most of their baby birds live and make a full transition back into the wild) and then release them.

It just how I chose to do it. I dont see how a mamma bird could get her baby back into the nest, she cant physically and often times the little guys will be rejected anyway. We can pick them up and put them in cause the mother will shove them back out because they smell weird. Its too bad. Sending them to get help makes me feel better and the babies almost always live.

This baby seems older though, so maybe he could flap back up.

 

[Mrs. PBJ]

Well I checked on him this morning and he was gone.

So either mom moved him or something happened.

But he is not there anymore

 

[Mrs. PBJ]

Well I saw a little bird I am not sure if it was the same one or another one but it was flying around.

We have a lot of nest we have dryer vent all over and they build nest in there. I have one in my dryer vent but can't bare to call the office to remove it tell I see mom not coming back.


So hopefully that was him and he is ok if not its cool to see all the bird back this year last year we did not have a lot.