Hit a seagull

Effects

This guy flew in front of my car earlier. He couldn't fly, just flapped around afterwards. I've moved him into the grounds of an apartment complex.
Any advice on what I should do now?
He had the wing pulled in but extended it after a while there.

Doop

Either ring a vet and ask for advice or ring the DSPCA

https://www.dspca.ie/what-we-do/rescue-cruelty/emergency-services/

Effects

Waiting for the DSPCA to answer the phone.

JustAThought

Effects wrote: »

Waiting for the DSPCA to answer the phone.

Google a local vet and ask them if yhey will look at it if you bring it in. Then go to spar and get a big cardboard box and a tin of sardines - you might be able to throw a jumper or tshirt over its head as it munches the sardines to put the box over it. Seagulls are light vet should take it as it is wildlife and they can treat it with local wildlife rescuers . Dont wait for the dspca. Try and do the right thing for it - its terribly cruel to leave it in pain be the super human : )

gimli2112

The seagull clearly blames you for this state of affairs. Fair play op for sticking around hope it ends well.

JustAThought

Where are you based?Let us know and someone might be nearby to help.

Effects

I had to leave it in the grounds as I had to get into work.
I'll keep trying DCPCA and I'll call the vet who is around the corner from the seagull.
Will also check in on the way back and bring some sardines!

Effects

Rang the local vet and they said they can look after it. I'll pick it up in a couple of hours and bring it around to them.

Effects

JustAThought wrote: »

Where are you based?Let us know and someone might be nearby to help.

It was at the bottom of the Howth road. I left him in the grounds of the Marino Crescent Apartment complex.

Bob Harris

How fast were you going and were you driving with due care and attention?

Effects

Bob Harris wrote: »

How fast were you going and were you driving with due care and attention?

About 30km/h, and yes.

endacl

Bob Harris wrote: »

How fast were you going and were you driving with due care and attention?

Jaysus.

:rolleyes:

Hoboo

Bob Harris wrote: »

How fast were you going and were you driving with due care and attention?

I think the seagull is the one you should be asking

Effects

Hoboo wrote: »

I think the seagull is the one you should be asking

He just swooped down directly into the front of my car. I was braking hard as we collided. He definitely wasn't showing proper attention.

mrcheez

Seagulls these days haven't a care in the world, not looking left or right when crossing. They don't even pay road tax.

magicbastarder

to be fair, his beak is hi-vis.

miketv

The Kildare wildlife foundation will help out.
https://animalfoundation.ie/wildlife/

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Bob Harris wrote: »

How fast were you going and were you driving with due care and attention?

Oh get off your high horse would you. The gull isn't even wearing a helmet ffs.

Bob Harris

Melania Crashing Slump wrote: »

Oh get off your high horse would you. The gull isn't even wearing a helmet ffs.

:pac: There's always one arsehole throwing around blame in a thread like this and I just wanted it to be me!

Oasis1974

Bob Harris wrote: »

How fast were you going and were you driving with due care and attention?

Surely the gardai will ask that what a strange thing to say?

Effects

miketv wrote: »

The Kildare wildlife foundation will help out.
https://animalfoundation.ie/wildlife/

That's who the vet said that they work with.

two wheels good

Looks like the same gull that threw himself in front of my car in Howth last week. Insurance fraudster?

Effects

So I went back and he was still there. When I approached he shifted along the grass about 5 metres. His right leg was damaged as he couldn't really put any weight on it. I opened the sardines and threw a few beside him but he showed no interest.
As I approached him again he moved off again, flapping his wings, and doing better than earlier. He went around a bush.
So I turned around to pick up the box to follow him but then when I went around the bush he wasn't there.
I presumed he realised that while his leg was damaged, and his wing less so, that he was able to fly and took off.
I did a good search to see if he might have been hiding anywhere but no sign of him.

Oasis1974

Effects wrote: »

So I went back and he was still there. When I approached he shifted along the grass about 5 metres. His right leg was damaged as he couldn't really put any weight on it. I opened the sardines and threw a few beside him but he showed no interest.
As I approached him again he moved off again, flapping his wings, and doing better than earlier. He went around a bush.
So I turned around to pick up the box to follow him but then when I went around the bush he wasn't there.
I presumed he realised that while his leg was damaged, and his wing less so, that he was able to fly and took off.
I did a good search to see if he might have been hiding anywhere but no sign of him.

John West only the best :pac:

OpenYourEyes

Mod Note - Thread Closed.

General Advice:
If you ever hit a bird or animal with your car, or come across one thats otherwise injured, the best thing to do is contact a local vet or wildlife rehabilitator immediately. A list of contacts can be found here: http://www.irishwildlifematters.ie/animals/contacts.html Note that groups such as Kildare Animal Foundation go above and beyond the call of duty and are very underfunded, so do consider making even a modest donation to help them carry out their work.

So - call someone with the experience to look after it, and they'll often give you directions. Usually you want to get the bird/animal out of harms way. If it's injured, maybe into a big box with a towel over it etc. until someone can take it off your hands. At this time of year there can be fledging birds as small as a Wren or big as a Gull that have 'left' the nest but aren't injured - in general you want to get them up into a tree, or onto a flat roof etc. where the parents can find them but a fox or cat won't!