"Doug Brown" wrote in
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"Twayne" wrote in message
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Call the nearest humane center or SPCA. They can refer you to the
proper authority which will pick up the baby bird and have it placed
with experienced, recognized experts whose job it is to get the
animal healthy, back on its feet and be releaed back into the wild.
Never try to do it yourself unless you've been schooled in such
things.
The biggest problem is having a youngster imprint on you as a
"parent" and when (not IF, even if you successfully make a pet of it)
it's gotten back to the wild it will have a very short life indeed.
IMproperly raised youngsters do not imprint properly, often don't
have any way to learn how to find food and some experience very
painful, terrible deaths because someone tried to help them. Honest;
if you doubt me, there are lots of internet sites you can find about
this subject. Just make sure they were written by authorized,
recognized organizations, that's all.
In our area both the dog warden and SPCA can take such things and
find
fostering for them. We have no local Humane Society, unfortunately;
very rural here. It works well; they even invite you to the event of
letting the animal go in the end if you wish it.
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Regards,

Tom1


OK,forgive me for being a callous lout but ----- it's a frigging
bird!!! Leave it alone and let nature take its course. Calling the
Humane Society, expending money, energy and effort for the sake of one
small baby bird is assinine and a sign of one of the many things wrong
in our society.



for the sake of one
small baby bird

Yet they wouldn't do squat for a callous lout in a ditch in the middle of
nowhere...I mean, wtf? It's only one crummy carbon unit of 6 billion
anyway.