Well, we were walking towards inside the mall (but in the parking lot and we found a fledgling. It was just sitting there in the middle of the road/street. He/she almost got killed a couple of times because he/she was right in the middle and cars kept going past it. We took a little bit of our shopping bags and scooted it to the side where he/she was safe, but it hopped towards the middle again. We went through this about five times and my mom just put it in the bag for safety. Well, now it's at home and it's in a little cage (clean and we are keeping it warm) plus we put tons of cushion around it plus some bird food and water (clean). Now it's chirping and sleeping a bit.....I'm thinking of telling my mom maybe we should bring it back tomorrow, but I don't know where to take him/her..we didn't see any nest at all around the inside parking lot or outside...where we found him/her...and there's roads all around so we don't want it to get hurt. What should we do? 5d2d.comPets Questions and Answers

My dad doesn't want to call the vet because he says they might charge us.... help? I don't want the bird to die because I read that this is an important stage in the bird's life...but we had to save it from getting killed by the cars! Please help!

You've made the classic mistake of removing a fledgling bird from its parents after it had left the nest. A lot of species leave the nest before they can fly a long distance and will hop around in the roadside or in hedges, where the parents find food for them and then the chick learns where its food comes from. Eventually it starts to feed for itself from this learning technique.

The parents keep the chick/s in sight at all times and would have flown to a safe distance when your approached the chick, so vacated the area but been within calling distance to the chick and any siblings it had nearby. Because they were calling to it, when you backed off, it hopped back into view of its parents which was the middle of the road. But in most cases any approaching object of a size would make it retreat back to the safety of the bushes, such as a car. www.5d2d.comPets Questions and Answers

If you take it back today it may survive, especially if there are other chicks but that's only dependant on how much you have handled it. Fledge nest leavers tend to feed direct from the parents so presenting it with bird seed will not work as it will not recognise it as food or even know how to pick it up. If you leave it in a cardboard box over night, with a lid on it, and an old towel to sit on, then leave it well alone, you may be able to return it tomorrow. Put it in the bushes near to where you found it and it will call to its parents. Back off completely, to at least 200 metres away and they may return to feed it. Do not keep going back to check on it as you will just lessen the chance of it being reaccepted

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the parents will have forgotten about the bird by now is it eating/drinking? what bird is it? finch,blackbird ect.. can it fly to beable to fend for itself? all this info will help.

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