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[Ernest Hemingway (and his cat)]

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Kill a baby bird? It fell out of the nest and I doubt it will last long. There are no wildlife places that will take it. I don't want to just leave it outside to slowly die. Is there anyway I can kill it quicker?

I should state there is NO way to get it back in the nest and it is so young, its eyes are not open. It also refuses to eat.

What kind of bird is it? Certain birds are fed certain ways, so it might not know how?

You can't borrow a neighbor's ladder or something?

The nest is in a plastic awning. There is a little tiny gap that it fell out of. I could try and shove it into said crack but I'd probably just break every bone it its body.

That is really strange. I wonder how its mother got in there to make the nest in the first place.

I feel for you OP. It's a rough position you're in. There is almost no chance that bird will survive, and no one to help.

I've seen the parents enter. They have to like...land on this little lip and shove themselves up thru the crack. No idea what it is like on the inside.

I rehabbed a baby sparrow last year who didn't want to eat initially, either. What I found was that if it'd been more than a few hours, he was literally too lethargic to even try, so what you have to do is get the food in him. What worked for me was a small eye-dropper. Mix up moist cat food (the pate kind, not the chunky kind) with a tiny bit of water so that it squirts out easily, get the tip of the dropper to the back of its throat, and give a tiny little squirt. Some'll come up, but he should reflexively swallow most of it. Wait a few minutes, do a little more.

And I do mean TINY amounts. Once he starts coming around, he'll let you know when he's full and how much he can swallow in a go, but until then, you don't want to OVER feed.

Kind of disgusting but...

drop something heavy on it. Like a cement block. Lay it on the pavement (hard surface is a must to prevent bounce back) and then drop it. It's instantaneous.

My mom had to kill a rabbit like that after we found it with a massive infection.

It makes a mess but the poor thing is basically guaranteed not to suffer.

Put it in the freezer. Or just stamp on its head. One firm blow to the skull will smash the brain before it ever knows what is happening.

Call the humane society/animal control. They should send someone out to pick it up so it can be transferred to a rehabber.

Alternatively, if you can reach the nest, you can just put it back in. That whole thing about birds rejecting babies if a human has touched them is just a myth.

AC won't take it. The rehabber said they don't take birds. And there is no way to reach the nest.

That's... bizarre. I have never met a rehabber who didn't take birds - I know rehabbers who don't take animals, just birds, but never the other way around.

I agree, but OP said there aren't wildlife places around, this may include animal control.

And is it a myth with other animals as well? Because when I was in elementary school we had pet baby hamsters that supposedly died because kids touched them. I really hope they weren't guilted for no reason...

It might not be a myth for animals who have more of a sense of smell. Handling baby hamsters is a good way to stress out the mother, which in turn has bad consequences for the babies.

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That's a myth too. Your teacher (well, I assume it was a class pet since you mention elementary school, but I guess it doesn't really matter) might have THOUGHT they were telling you the truth but the baby hamsters likely died for some other reason (...or they were eaten by their mother, which is not at all unlikely, and your teacher thought that telling children their touch resulted in the deaths of hamsters was somehow less traumatizing than good old fashioned cannibalism)

AYRT - Looking back, my teacher wasn't that horrible, so my guess/recollection (keeping in mind I was so young) was that she said something like that COULD happen, and then when it did, the other kids were like "see?" I do remember it being another kind telling me that's why it happened, not the teacher.

rodents like hamsters eat their young because of stress, it's more than likely being in a classroom full of loud and handsy kids was the culprit

and if the hamster was a first-time mother or young, they often have a difficult time with their litters and it's not unheard of for a first-time rodent mom to panic and cull all of their pups

I think that leaving it alone would be best for you. Imho.

You said the original nest is broke? Sometimes you can make a little human nest and put the old nest in it and the bird in that and hang it near the old nest. Mummy's bird can adapt.

Yes, this is one possible thing you can do. It sounds like the nest is still up there but the baby fell out, but even so, if you can make a makeshift nest and hang it near the existing nest, the mother bird may come to feed it too.

When a hummingbird's nest fell down, my mom and I stuck it back up with duct tape and put the baby in. The mom came back a few hours later.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/health/rehabilitation/baby_birds.html

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