Animal nuts..........(PETA types) I have a question.

[freeflir29 0]

Is it really true that a mother bird will not take one of her own babies back if it has human scent on it? I have always heard that but didn't know if it's really true. I just walked outside and found this poor baby bird had crawled out of the nest and fell into the trash can. A couple of weeks ago I found one of it's syblings dead on the ground out there. The trash can just happened to be in the right place and it was full of empty water bottles which broke his fall. I tried to pick him up using some cardboard and a wooden spoon but he was struggling so much I couldn't even get him out of the trash can. I finally gave up and picked him up with my hand. I put him back up near the nest but will Mom continue to take care of him? Poor little thing hardly even has wing feathers half grown. There's no way he can survive on his own. Anyone know about this for sure?

[swedishcelt 0]

http://petnetdesigns.com/myths.htm

and

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/advice4.htm

Picturing the big guy with a baby bird.

(Aw. Clay you softie.)

[flyinghonu 0]

I hear this is pretty common when the little guys are learning how to fly. Happend at our place but the little guy took a 2 story fall onto cement and lived. We also tried to place him back in the nest but he did it again...and lived again. We took him to a local animal sanctuary where they care for the animals and then try to re-assimilate them back into the wild if possible. We were told we did the right thing that the baby bird would have continued to try to fly but may have not developed correctly or fully and that is why some of them don't make it

Edited to add: HEY - I'm not an animal nut and I think A LOT of what PETA has done is .....oh, whatever!

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky..." - Jimi Hendrix

[freeflir29 0]

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Aw. Clay you softie

Well..........my first thought was "Poor thing........I should just kill it and put it out of it's misery." That thought kind of repulsed me though. Especially after finding the last one dead. So.....I put it back up there and made a little cardboard lip over the end of the angle iron that the nest is in. Hopefully that will allow Mom to get in and out and keep the little idiots in there.

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Picturing the big guy with a baby bird.

Do you know how gross looking those things are? They are cute once they get feathers but this thing was still ugly as all!!!!!! Face only a mother could love.........Like Shrek's!

[airtwardo 7]

Poor little thing hardly even has wing feathers half grown.

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Then I would suggest a white wine...and only a few minutes on 'bake' at 400 degrees!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[swedishcelt 0]

Sicko.

[freeflir29 0]

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Then I would suggest a white wine...and only a few minutes on 'bake' at 400 degrees!

Uhhh.........I'm not quite hungry enough to eat a 1/4 developed sparrow in a third world country. Now last summer when I had no food.........

[Stevehend15 0]

I dont think birds have scent glands.
Maybe they do...... I have a bird and that little shit sneaks up on you and bites your toes, then he laughs! I am going to eat that bastard.

[skinnyshrek 0]

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Aw. Clay you softie

Well..........my first thought was "Poor thing........I should just kill it and put it out of it's misery." That thought kind of repulsed me though. Especially after finding the last one dead. So.....I put it back up there and made a little cardboard lip over the end of the angle iron that the nest is in. Hopefully that will allow Mom to get in and out and keep the little idiots in there.

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Picturing the big guy with a baby bird.

Do you know how gross looking those things are? They are cute once they get feathers but this thing was still ugly as all!!!!!! Face only a mother could love.........Like Shrek's!

Gross looking isnt that bad. Ask all your ex girlfriends.. Wait, you can't. They all have restraining orders against ya.. I am not buying into this bird cap with ya. You must of been dumped again and is looking for some new fresh meat at the dropzone. I want to see pics of you rscuing this bird. I know how you operate fatty

http://www.skydivethefarm.com

do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?

[SpeedRacer 1]

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Is it really true that a mother bird will not take one of her own babies back if it has human scent on it?

No it is not true. A human scent on the baby bird will not make the mother reject it.

which doesn't mean the baby might not die for some other reason.

Here is how I dealt with a similar problem.

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[freeflir29 0]

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I know how you operate fatty

DUDE.............STFU!!!!!!! Don't tip them off!

[freeflir29 0]

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So I just put the little guy back up in the angle iron where his nest is. I couldn't put him directly back in the nest because it's about 4 Ft from the open end of the angle iron. He seemed uninjured when I put him in there and I could only hope that he would go back to the nest. I climbed up where I could see in there today and he was staring back at me. The little piece of cardboard I put up to cover about a 1/4 of the opening seems to have worked. He crawls up to it but stops. Also, Mom was rather upset that I was up there bothering her little one. In spite of the mouth full of bread she was bringing him she was chirping up a storm and flying all around the porch aggitatedly. Seems they'll be fine as long as JR waits a couple more weeks before he trys another outing.

[NlghtJumper 0]

Thats awesome!

A man will do anything for the right woman,
and when that woman destroys him,
that man will become a hunk of meat with the common sense of a rodeo clown! ~ Christopher Titus

[PLFXpert 0]

PETA member here

But, I'm a non-paint & feather throwing member

Despite some of their displays to make a point, they actually are excellent researches/investigators and provide a wealth of information. PETA has also been instrumental in a lot of improvements--which is why I'm a member. I'm not really into the "shock value" aspect.

Anywho....sounds like your problem is solved and thank you for caring
The best thing to do in nature is to let nature takes its course with as little intervention as possible---of course, I have a VERY hard time not helping.

Unfortunately, many baby birds (not directing this to your case since yours happened to be in a garbage can) appear to "have fallen" out of a nest but they are actually learning to fly and the mother bird is nearby. Caring passerbys will too often pick up the bird and try to "rescue it" when it's perfectly fine. Some species of birds can only be reintroduced to their immediate family and not into a surrogate one. Other species actually push one out too early on purpose b/c there are too many babies to care for---it's sad, but it's nature.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[freeflir29 0]

He seems to be doing fine now. I know he isn't trying to learn how to fly. He'd need feathers for that. I sat out there for a while today wanting to make sure that Mom could get in the smaller hole OK. I figured she could but I wanted to see it. She's too sly for that though. I must have sat out there for almost an hour today. She would fly up.......mock like she was going to go in but turn away and find a perch not far away. Then sit there and chirp at me. I was sitting low in a chair about 15 ft away and I was hoping she would just ignore me. Not a chance.....neither her nor another Mom would ever go into their nests while I was out there. I was actually a little closer to another nest and that Mom got pissed. After sitting there chirping at me for about 15 minutes she flew over about 5 ft away. Ruffled up her feathers and started the most incessant noise making I have ever heard from a sparrow. I finally took the hint and left them alone. Pretty fierce for a tiny bird. The little one I saved kept sticking his head over the little piece of cardboard I taped up there and chirping his head off. I think he'll be fine if he stays in there long enough to grow some feathers!

[PLFXpert 0]

Oh yea, the mother birds are no bird brains

We used to have a tom cat in the neighborhood that I named "Swoop" (the neighbor adopted him, but she liked the name I gave him b/c....) b/c he was always out climbing trees and messing with the birds and they'd come swooping down at him from the trees anytime he was out and about. The birds were smart about where'd they'd build their nests and Swoop couldn't get to it, but he'd come pretty close sometimes and even in the tree the birds would chirp and swoop over at him, once even causing him to fall from the branch (landed on his feet of course).

It was quite hilarious to watch since it was all fun & games and neither party was getting hurt.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.