What to do with a baby bird on the ground?

Question

I think it is a finch. I found a dead baby next to him. This is about 20 feet below the mud nest on my house. The bird seemed exposed so I moved it under a pine tree. It is supposed to be 105 degrees today.

There are a couple of babies in the nest now but it seems like the birds that are feeding those babies are a different species than before-does that makes sense that new birds would take over a used nest?

Thanks everyone. It turned out to be a swallow that fell from its nest. The local wildlife centr has it now

Answer 1

These sites explain all about what to do for orphan baby birds -
http://www.crowsystems.com/rehab/babybird.html - this is an excellent article - be sure to read down the entire page!
http://www.stokesbirdsathome.com/q&a/archive/qa108.html
http://besgroup.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-happened-when-nestling-fell-out.html
http://www.projectwildlife.org/find-babysongbirds.htm
And this Yahoo Best Answer too -
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006050608886

I've got a lot of links to wildlife carers from a lot of countries on my site, at
http://au.geocities.com/leaswebsite/links under "Wildlife Assistance" - just click on them all, click on your country and state, have a browse, 'phone them and ask their advice.

Very very best of luck.

Answer 2

There are some species of birds that actually lay their eggs in other species' nests. So when their eggs hatch, the mother bird doesn't know the difference between her babies and the imposters because she has been the one sitting on them. So these imposters take over the nest, sometimes killing the original babies. It's a cruel world.

Answer 3

Once when I was younger we found a robin like that. It was pretty obvious that the mom wasn't coming back for it or didn't know it was gone, so we brought it inside and kept it until it's wing healed. We made her a nest in a box and bought bait worms to fed her, I think it was worms. We took her outside to let her 'play' once in awhile and when she was ready she left. So if you wanted to, you could probably do something like that for this bird if you think it has been abandoned.

Answer 4

i would just get a soft hand-towel and maybe some rubber gloves place the towel around the baby bird and with ladder try to place it back in the nest. if your sent gets on the baby bird and the mother senses it,the mother most likely will stop feeding it,and that's just doom for the bird watch it for a while to make sure it's being feed and that's it. thank you...

Answer 5

^dont listen what they tell you. Birds are terrible at scent. And know there baby birds by their call, cause each bird has a special unique call. The mother would not abandon it spots the baby bird.

Answer 6

Yes, and they probably kicked the baby out. Unless you get some mash(baby bird food mixture) at a pet store & start feeding it, it's gonna die.

Answer 7

Yes. There are opportunistic species in the bird world. You did good, hopefully you wore gloves or used something to move the bird so momma doesn't smell you on the baby or she might abandon it.

Answer 8

i think that you should take the baby nest inside the house and try to keep them from the hotness and try to take care of them tel they can fly them send out

Answer 9

If it is a dead bird, pick it up with some gloves on. Then put in a bag and put it in your freezer.

Answer 10

dont touch it with bare hands it will leave the human scent on it causing its mom bird to abandon it