Someone just brought me a baby bird :(

[dishgal1]

:20: It's pretty cute but a bit frustrating, with the baby parrots if you don't actually hold them all the time they will constantly try to run or fly away from you and it really does take a good deal of time getting them to enjoy being handled, yet with this wild bird that I had no intentions of taming it's like he just automatically accepted us, go figure.

That is interesting. You might try wearing gloves and cover his cage so he cant see you if that is possible. I read something like that and that is what I would do if I had it to do over with the crow.
He was so sweet. He loved to dig in our pockets and carry my husbands tools off....LOL hubby didn't think it was funny.

 

[ann]

Awwwww he sounds like a real cutie. I think you should do your best to release him, but if he's still tame in the end I think you should keep him for his own good.

 

[MikeyTN]

Wild birds are regulated. There are four types, endangered, protected, not protected, and injurious. You need to have a Federal permit to handle endangered or protected birds, and a state permit for all others.

That was the first thing I did was call them, I find some of them to be idiots.... I did not want to hear the word euthanize!!!! They give me the permission to do so when I did it. I'm sure they will do the same for Icy.

dishgal,

I would be heartbroken too! It still bothers me until this day that I don't know whatever happen to that baby Robin that I raised, also a morning dove later on.....These days I'm saving them outside from my dogs, the babies don't fly very well when they leave the nest and they're considered food to my huskies, the reason I don't trust them with my birds except Willie the only bird that they love, probably because he feeds them.....

 

[ann]

how is he doing icy?

 

[Phlox]

I'd love to know how the little guy is doing too...though I would have sworn that was a baby robin or a thrush. Last year I ended up handfeeding a nest of baby robins for a few days before I could get them to the rescue when my husband had to take them out of a tree a client insisted on cutting down during nesting season. They looked just like this. I thought starlings were proportioned a little differently.

They eat the same things, so that shouldn't matter, though a thrush or robin you definitely can't keep.

I've always wanted a starling -- they look like they'd make great pets, but I've never had the heart to raid a nest, so I'll have to wait until one appears or live vicariously through you.

 

[aliray]

This post is from spring 2012.