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Young Bird, injured?

  • 03-06-2009 1:38pm
    #1
    Tester46
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭


    OK, from reading other posts and from looking at the Birdwatch Ireland advice on baby birds here, I guess the answer to my question is Leave It Alone, but here goes...

    There is a young crow-type bird outside my window at work (I don't know much about identifying birds). It looks young and small compared to the adults that land near it from time to time. It is on a public shopping courtyard area that has people passing through it. It is hopping around pecking at stuff on the ground, but it can't fly. Every so often, it makes a half-hearted attempt to open its wings and fly, but it doesn't work so it just hops around the place.

    There are plenty of adult birds around that land from time to time. But they fly off again, leaving this bird alone on the ground, unable to fly letting out the odd squawk. It is just sitting out in the hot sun now, pecking at bits of paper on the ground. It's pathetic to watch to be honest, but it could be perfectly normal for all I know.

    Do I:

    a) leave it alone
    b) take it home and try to feed it (would be very reluctant to do this in case it has not been abandoned)
    c) try to move it somewhere else?

    If I touch it, would that cause the parents to definitely abandon it? Maybe it is just still learning to fly?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Tester46
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Tester46


    Update: A bigger crow-type bird has landed beside it and looked like it was being friendly i.e. just staying beside the baby bird. Then a larger crow-type bird came down and scared the friendly bird away. Basically, from time to time, other birds land beside this one, but then they fly off again. Are they parents, or just other birds?

    Does anyone actually know about this, cuz I don't?


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Probably the parents. I wouldn't worry. Just (as you said) leave it alone. I'd say it's totally fine.


  • #4
    Tester46
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Tester46


    Silas Little Transistor wrote: »
    Probably the parents. I wouldn't worry. Just (as you said) leave it alone. I'd say it's totally fine.


    Yeah, I hope you're right. There were two adult birds on a roof ledge who were staying close by the baby bird on the ground. I am assuming they are the parents, but maybe they aren't. Having said that, they've gone again now. Anyway, it looks like it would be wrong of me to interfere, so I hope you're right.

    Thanks


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