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Wed 22 Jun, 2005 12:19 pm
What should we do? It's a swift, and this is the 2nd time it's happened in the last 3 years....The first bird was old enough to try and fly. But this one is only few days old...
Parents still around but they can't land on flat roof, so what can they do? The bird is quite weak...should we take to looking after it or leave it or what?
HELP!!
Can you safely try to put it back in the nest? If not, call a wildlife rescue operation, see if they'll come get it. My best guess is that before you can do anything, a cat will have eaten it.
Like cjhsa said - try to gently put it back in its nest. Unlike what you probably have heard - birds do tend to their babies even if a human has touched it.
Oh we ain't touched it...can't get it back to it's nest...it's more lively this morning so I've given it some water... A lot of websites saying to give baby swifts meal worms and/or dog food... Does anyone know if meaty cat food would be ok in little portions? Or porridge or something?
Find some way or someone to put the bird back in the nest. If the baby is as young as you have described it needs regurgitated food from it's parents. Nothing you feed it will be mushed up enough.
Why can't a swift land on a flat roof?
JNation
I fed it mealworms and it was ok... Swifts feed their young flying creatures/bugs anyway, so...
They hjave teeny tiny legs so they can't land and take off again. They feed and sleep etc in flight, so there's no need for them to land really...
Thanks guys, we took baby bird to a specialist who hand-rears birds and wild animals...
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