A question concerning me

[NicAuf]

Ok I have this question to ask you guys. Sometime last fall I was taking out the trash, and I noticed a baby bird on the sidewalk. I thought about what to do with it for awhile. I decided to kill the bird quickly. I did this because in short it would eventually starve to death without its mother.

I told my brother and friend about it, and they were horrified. They said I was sick and demented (jokingly, but they still didnt see why I killed it).

Personally I think it was the right thing to do. Let it starve to death slowly, or ends its life quick. I have no remorse about it, I was just think what you guys think about the whole thing.

 

[Peter Parka]

The mother was probably somewhere in the vicinity. You should have probably left it alone so that the mother would come and fetch it.

 

[NicAuf]

What would the mother have done with it though? The bird couldn't even fly.

 

[SilentEyz]

Baby birds can be nursed and released, There are programs and facilitys that will pick up and take of them..

But like peter said the mother may have been around.. And often you can return the bird to its nest where it will be fine.

Sorry but I think there are many alternatives you could have taken rather then Killing it.

 

[Peter Parka]

Seriously dude, I know alot about birds. People often mistakenly see a baby bird somewhere and think its helpless and been abandoned. The truth is that birds are good parents and are usually keeping an eye on it. If it looks like its in a very vunerable place the best thing to do is move it quietly into a bush or other nearby safer place.

 

[NicAuf]

Oh well I killed it when I shouldn't have. Woops.

 

[Veronica]

why didnt you find the nest and place the bird back in the nest??

 

[Sneakiecat]

I can't quite see how you rationalized this. Did you look for the nest? Could you have left it you a while and see if the mother came back. We've found tons of baby birds and we've always kept an eye on them until the mother came back. If fact, the only one we ever took with us was attacked by our dog and we took it to the local bird lady.

 

[OUZBnd]

I've read/heard that often times if a mother bird sees/senses that a human or other possible preditor has messed with their baby's, they will neglect the baby's and leave them to die. Not sure the whole truth behind that tho...

In your case tho, i would not have killed the bird.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Urban Legends Reference Pages: A Bird in the Hand

 

[Ria]

I was wondering how long you left it til you killed it?

Something obviously made you feel it necessary to kill it - we all get instincts as to what to do about something - some would do what you did and others would not.

I'd have telephoned an organization or my local vet, for advice first. If it couldn't fly, it wouldn't have gone far while you phoned to find out what to do.

Having done it, it can't be altered now so there's no point in my getting detailed on this. If it happens ever again though, would you ring somewhere first?

 

[NicAuf]

Oh well survival of the fittest and at that time I was the fittest. Sorry bird don't be a bitch next time and you might live.



Man I'm gonna get so much crap for having a black heart, devoid of all feeling.




So be it.

 

[OUZBnd]

Urban Legends Reference Pages: A Bird in the Hand

That takes care of that question!

 

[Tim]

I though the replys in this thread were very interesting to read.

There were a lot of suggestions to call someone, take it someplace, sit back and watch for it's mother, etc... All this talk begs me ask the question... How many of you would have done that? I mean really, how many of you would have taken the time out of your day to stop and go through all of that for a bird on the ground? I would bet my next pay check that over 98% of people would just walk right on by. Maybe some of them would justify their actions by thinking that the mother bird would come and take care of it. But I still bet that the vast majority of people wouldn't do a thing about it. Even if someone would take the time to place a call... to whom? I would like to know one single agency that would send out personnel for a baby bird.
Now with that said. NicAuf actually did something, wether it was right or wrong that isn't the question. But the fact that he did stop and "put the bird out of it's suffering" was more than the vast majority of people would do. Again, I'm not saying what he did was the best choice... it may have been, but none of us were there to assess the situation. If this was indeed a baby bird so small that it was unable to walk, then it was not going to survive. Baby birds that fall from the nest at that early an age will not survive out of the nest.

Just food for thought...

 

[Scooter]

Mother nature is alot tougher than most people think. Believe me... I know. I have been in several experiences where I could have lost my life due to the forces of nature. I think the bird would have made it, they always seem to find a way.

 

[Tim]

Every summer I see at least 2 dozen dead baby birds laying on the ground. Either washed out of the gutter from a miss placed nest or by some other mishap...

you are right, mother nature is tough

 

[ngdawg]

My dad rescued a baby blue jay. He called the Audubon Society and they told him what to do. He kept it in a makeshift nest (a shoebox) and fed it a mix of chopped bread with raw egg-pieces no bigger than the end of a tweezer. After a few days, he was told to switch to raw burger and egg. He also named it Woodstock. About a week or two later, Woodstock started getting sick and wouldn't move much. Dad was really worried that he might be dying; instead, after a couple of days he passed this huge wormlike piece of crap:yuk and was back to his old self. He'd get all excited soon as he saw Dad's hand come near the box-opening his mouth wide, stretching his neck. Once Woodstock got his down and it looked like his flight feathers were coming in, Dad again called the Audubon Society and they told him to bring it to their bird sanctuary outside of Trenton.
For a couple of years after, a bluejay always was in Dad's backyard, chirping away at the porch where Woodstock had been nursed by his new mom. We figure it was Woodstock stopping by to say hello and thanks.

 

[SilentEyz]

I though the replys in this thread were very interesting to read.

There were a lot of suggestions to call someone, take it someplace, sit back and watch for it's mother, etc... All this talk begs me ask the question... How many of you would have done that? I mean really, how many of you would have taken the time out of your day to stop and go through all of that for a bird on the ground? I would bet my next pay check that over 98% of people would just walk right on by. Maybe some of them would justify their actions by thinking that the mother bird would come and take care of it. But I still bet that the vast majority of people wouldn't do a thing about it. Even if someone would take the time to place a call... to whom? I would like to know one single agency that would send out personnel for a baby bird.
Now with that said. NicAuf actually did something, wether it was right or wrong that isn't the question. But the fact that he did stop and "put the bird out of it's suffering" was more than the vast majority of people would do. Again, I'm not saying what he did was the best choice... it may have been, but none of us were there to assess the situation. If this was indeed a baby bird so small that it was unable to walk, then it was not going to survive. Baby birds that fall from the nest at that early an age will not survive out of the nest.

Just food for thought...

Have Several times.. and would again. some were just finches.. even did it with pigions.. and yes the DOW will take baby pigions

 

[Sneakiecat]

There were a lot of suggestions to call someone, take it someplace, sit back and watch for it's mother, etc... All this talk begs me ask the question... How many of you would have done that?

Like I said earlier, I can't count the number of times we have done this.

 

[Homer]

Oh well survival of the fittest and at that time I was the fittest. Sorry bird don't be a bitch next time and you might live.



Man I'm gonna get so much crap for having a black heart, devoid of all feeling.




So be it.

well yeah talking like that you do sound like a black hearted prick.