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Most people are ignorant to the fact that when baby birds fledge, they leave the nest to be fed on the ground by their parents for a few days before they can fly on their own. Most of these birds are kidnapped while the parents above are angrily vocalizing to the perpetrating humans. Yes, there was a cat, but cats shouldn't be outside anyway with the number of songbirds that they kill :/
Now, this bird is in the awkward stage where it's almost ready to be on its own but won't be easy to feed. You can gently force a syringe into its mouth and slide it to the back of the throat to avoid getting food in the glottis and causing aspiration pneumonia. Small insects work well too if you can get them in the mouth.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-u…
BUT. This is fledgeling European starling and really should be destroyed. I can't imagine PAWS would rehab and release one, though I could be wrong.
They do make good pets and aren't protected by migratory bird laws so it's legal. I'm sure you could find stuff online if you wanted to raise and keep it.
I fed it cat and dog food from a miniature teaspoon and water from a syringe as mentioned. It thrived.
Best of luck, it was one of the best experiences of my life.
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I agree - starling? Kill it. Break its neck and throw the corpse at other starlings. I hate them.
This bird is not edible, not even with a béarnaise sauce. Crow would be much more satisfying. Let it go...in Kent or Burien or the FW, not here.
Also they are temperamental baby birds. The post above is right that you can do everything just so and they still sometimes die - ungrateful little fuckers.
How about Slim Gandolfini? Having an oxymoron for a name would be pretty cool.
Great post Brendan, great bonding time for you and the little guy. There's something on the web yesterday about some Army servicemen taking care of a baby bunny.
http://www.paws.org/about-wildlife-cente…
They rehabbed a baby hummingbird we found on the ground in very cold weather. They are very knowledgeable and should be able to give you good advice.
I don't think they would take an animal if they didn't intend to rehab it. For example, we found a baby robin that had left the nest. We though it had fallen out and tortured it trying to put it back in the nest. They told us the best thing to do was release it into the bushes where we found it. Robins do indeed spend several days on the ground being fed by their parents. I think we had probably already caused that one to die of stress and lack of food. The next time they dropped out of the nest, we had all the neighbors keep their cats in. Being a baby bird can be a tough life.
I don't know what kind of bird that is you have. People are saying Corvid. Is that a crow?
I would call PAWS wild animal rescue again and that Animal Hospital mentioned above might be a good resource.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpYHYrMn…
I recognize the invasiveness of starlings, but I cannot help but love them. We had a nest about our apartment, so I stuck microphones near it and would listen throughout the day to the babies learn to talk. Amazing sounds. There was a car alarm that (alarmingly) went off continuously one day.. for hours. The starlings learned it.
I decided to use them as a sampler. So I feed small earbuds under the nest and played the word "acid" over and over, hoping they would repeat it ... and that I could record it and use it in a song (seemed like a nice, classic style sample to have fun with).
It did not work, but to this day I hope that some nice person is walking along, a little out of their mind, and crosses paths with a starling that looks up at them and says "acid"
Another vote for "kill it.". Starlings are monsters. Stomp on its head.
Many juvenile birds have yellow beaks.
Including corvids.
Yes, the only adult bird in the region with a yellow beak is the starling. But this is not an adult bird. This is a fledgling. It could be a native urban bird, or it could be an immigrant urban bird.
The important questions we must ask are:
If we let this bird live, then when it grows up, will it respect the bird diversity of its community?
Will it recognize bird autonomy, or will it work to impose normative bird behaviors on its fellow birds?
Will it engage in bird hierarchy and resource-control, or will it choose to peaceably regard all nearby and migrant birds as equals, each with as much right to local resources as any other bird?
These are the criteria we should use to decide whether we ought to exterminate this bird immediately, or to foster it and give it every advantage in youth (and thus every advantage in an adulthood we will not even try to observe).
http://birdandmoon.com/ifyoufind.html
But I seem to remember that it's illegal to keep crows...
all my resident flickers and jays are MIA this year, and it's fucking crows all day long.
leave baby birds where you find them, neighbor lady.
Once hated and despised, starlings will now rise as benevolent champions of all bird-kind! They will call this starling "Muad'Dib" (as all starlings are huge fans of Dune, though usually cheering on House Harkonnen...citation N/A).
I have bald eagles living in the wild a quarter-mile from my house, right in the middle of the city. If you're not seeing a beautiful variety of birds in Seattle, you don't know how to look.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl…
Got osprey??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey