will a mama bird take back its babies if i touched them and the nest?

Question

i found 2 baby blue birds on the ground and i touched there nest because it had fallen. will the momma reject the babies or the nest because i touched it =[?

Answer 1

That's just a myth.
Birds do not have a highly developed sense of smell, so the mother bird will not smell your scent on the babies, which is the popular story.
Just leave them alone and she will continue to take care of them.

Answer 2

Birds being able to 'smell' human scent is a myth. The only reason that you shouldn't touch a baby bird is because you might take away some of the necessary oils that is in their feathers which helps to keep them dry. If a bird becomes soaked with water, they're too heavy to be able to fly and therefor wouldn't be able to get away from predators.
It's awsome that you care about the young birds and that you want to help them out. The best thing that you can do in your situation is just to try and put the nest back up where you think it fell from. In most cases, that mother bird will come back. In any case, you should keep and eye on the nest and if it seems like the mother bird hasn't came back for her nest, you should take the baby birds to a wildlife professional.

Answer 3

the myth that a baby birds parent will abandon it because of human scent is 100% UNTRUE!! birds have a very poor sense of smell; the only bird known to have a well developed sense of smell is the turkey vulture. i worked at a wildlife rehab center in the avian nursery, you would not believe how many baby birds are brought in because people think the parents have abandoned them because of human scent. if you ever find an un-feathered baby bird on the ground you can always put it back in the nest, unless it is injured then you should bring it to a wildlife rehab center. never try to care for a baby bird on your own, it is illegal and if you are not trained on how to feed baby birds you can very easily kill it. your dad did the right thing! try to give the nest a bit of space so the parents wont feel threatened.

Answer 4

She will absolutely take them back! It is a myth that a bird will abandon her babies if she smells human scent on them. A bird's sense of smell is just not that acute. Wildlife biologists and bird banders remove baby birds from their nests all the time. They need to weigh them, band them, and take blood samples for study. They handle the baby birds with their bare hands. The mothers never reject the babies once they have been returned to the nest.

You can see some photos here of wildlife biologists handling peregrine falcon chicks: http://www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/perefalcon.htm

Answer 5

Most likely not. Birds have a terrible sence of smell. Try to put the nest back.

Answer 6

Yes. Most of the time they do, but just stay away from it. Watch and see.
It really is a myth that birds have a sense of smell, they don't.
I have done this on several occasions, to wild birds and those in my aviary with out ANY problems.

Answer 7

Alana, don't talk about whwat you don't know.

It's just a myth, as I am sure that other people have said. Birds do not have a high sense of smell. Thiers is less than ours, and even I can't smell a human! But don't worry, she'll stick aroudn to feed her young.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

you can not tell, but the majority do not come back to their baby. so my best advice it you wanna help is to ware a gloves or put some power on your hand.
for the smell of the human being is the reason

Answer 10

yes