When a bird leaves its nest, is it on its own for good
There was a baby bird who fell from it's nest near my house last night. We could hear it making noise all last night. My husband got up and went to check outside. There was a cat nearby as well and it sort of looked like the bird was injured, so he took an old shirt and rapped up the bird to bring it inside where we let it stay the night inside a pet cage we had for our cat. When we woke up, we both thought about something we should have the night before, when a baby bird has the scent of a human on it, the mother will not take it back. It is not a tiny little newborn bird, it is older, but not an adult yet. I am afraid to let it go on its own now. We are not sure if it is injured or not. Right now though it really doesn't look as if it is hurt. I was wondering if it might be ok to let it go? What do you think the possibilities of the cat coming back? If not injured do you think it would survive?
I am also calling animal hospitals and wildlife rescues to see if they can help!!!
Answers:If a baby bird is not fledged and moving about the tree it's nest is in, it must usually be hand-raised or it will die. Once it has fledged and is moving about on it's own from branch to branch, you can often set it back up in the tree and it will find it's own way from there. Putting it back in the nest, especially after so long, it will either be pushed out or killed, if there is another chick in the nest, or the nest will be abandoned and it will starve to death.
One summer I was busy rescuing baby blue jays. I found an old straw hat and nailed it to the tree and put the babies in there. It was pretty deep in the hat, so they couldn't fall out too easily. Even though I had handled them, the mother bird eventually found them and started caring for them again. She hated that hat though and got those babies out of there .
Sometimes you have to let nature take it's course and baby birds die, I know that is hard to face. The mother bird is probably long gone.so that bird was and would have been on it 's own.
When a bird first leaves its nest, it is called a fledgling and is not weaned yet. The parents will continue to feed it and care for it for a number of weeks, depending on the species.
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