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| Question about Pets:I have a baby bird that i found, about 1-4 days old and i want to know how to take care of it thebest way.? |
The best chance that bird has is if you put it back in the nest. The parents will not reject it just because you handled it. A bird's sense of smell is not that acute.
If you can not get it back into the nest, the very best thing to do would be to contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact....
These people have the training and the resources to care for sick, injured and orphaned wild animals until they are ready to be released back into the wild.
Please do not attempt to care for this bird yourself. If you live in the US, it is illegal to keep most native wild species without the proper permits. Also, if you do not have the proper training, you can do more harm than good. I like the way this website explains it: "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."
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/f...
former volunteer - Avian Rehabilitation Center
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