Baby Birds rescued?

Question

Just a note to (and in particular Answerer no 9, to the pregnant lady who's bird had bugs) you think someone who tries to help a baby bird abandoned is wrong ?!? how dare you judge!......the parents can ONLY feed it moron!! not protect it from the likes of cats or cruel kids. All its doing is delaying the inevitable, your sick, your the cruel one. Well done to anyone who has taken it upon themselves to take the time to help rather than heartlessly walk away. This site is about HELPING people not using it to have a go you **** wit.and as for Answerer no 1 ! who thinks to ...Ewww Bin it?!? your heartless and twisted, get ****** the pair of you!. no-one wants help like yours, your pathetic.

Answer 1

you did nothing wrong you tried to help a baby bird and there is nothing wrong with that . I hope that the baby survived . I took three of wild baby birds in their mom had been killed by something and she was dead at the base of the tree had my hubby get ladder and get them and i fed them and called the forrestry service to help me they came and took the birds from me and told me that I could not keep them without a permit . anyway after that i dont know what happened . you did a good thing dont let any snot nose person on here tell you you did not . god bless you and the many ppl like you .

Answer 2

THANK YOU! I totally agree! I've been fostering baby birds that people bring into my work. I work at a pet store and we see them all the time. I can't just tell the people "put it back where it came from" because most of them have no idea what to do, even if I wrote them a book about it. People who bring them into the store don't know squat about birds so I'm trying to be the nice guy and help the baby birds. I'm fostering four right now, and whenever I try to ask a question about weaning, or something hugely important, I just get blasted for not being a wildlife rehabber. For goodness sakes, I want to HELP the bird, not starve ot waiting for someone to actually answer my question. I HAVE experience, so it's not like I'm working in the dark. I KNOW what I'm doing, but still I get harassed! Would you rather I feed the darn bird or toss it in the garbage because it's illegal for me to own it? If I'm going to release it, who gives a crap? Just help me!!! I couldn't agree with you more and I hope this post gets into more people's heads.

Answer 3

Not sure if this was directed at me, as many people get upset by my answers...mainly because they are not the answers they want to hear.

First of all, it is illegal to keep any native wild bird in the US, no matter what your intentions. If discovered, the birds will be taken from you, and you may be subject to very serious fines.

Second, there are people who have spent a lot of time and effort studying wildlife rehabilitation and getting their license. They know how to feed wild animals, how to evaluate their health, and how to care for them properly until they can release the animal back into its natural environment.

I think it is said very well on this website:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/FAQBabies.html
"First of all, there are federal and state laws that prohibit keeping wild birds. And there are so many important but subtle elements to raising a wild bird that the job is only legally entrusted to licensed rehabilitators. Many well-meaning people raise baby birds or rescue birds from cats or after accidents, and sometimes they don't realize that the bird in their care is suffering from a serious dietary deficiency. Some of the problems aren't apparent to untrained people, but can cause death, or make the bird less likely to evade predators or to survive harsh natural weather conditions."

Let's put it this way: Your 4 year old son falls and breaks his arm. Are you going to try to set it yourself? Are you going to ask people here how to set it? I should hope not! You would take him to a doctor - someone with the training and the proper license to treat injuries like that.

So, when you find a wild animal that is sick, injured or abandoned, why do you think you are capable of taking care of it, rather than taking it to the people who are trained and licensed?

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