Question:
Is it okay to take a house sparrow out from the wild?
Tanya-Dog and cat owner
2010-12-10 14:40:59 UTC
I'm thinking of catching a sparrow, but i know its bad to just take it out from the wild. Is it okay to catch it? a lot of people have pet sparrows, and the sparrows are trained. I want a pet bird. but instead of buying one, im thinking of catching a sparrow instead. I know if i ever do catch one, it might be hard to train it. btw, what do house sparrows eat? and is it better to take a baby, or more like an adult sparrow? is its better to take a young one, how do you take care of it?
Twelve answers:
anonymous
2010-12-10 14:45:26 UTC
im thinking about taking you as a pet. i would keep you in a cage and stop you seeing family and friends and feed you crap you don't like.



when you find baby birds on the ground they have not been abandoned the parents are still feeding them. please leave them alone you will never be able to care from them as well as the parents.
?
2017-01-19 10:08:06 UTC
House Sparrow As A Pet
♥AnimaLover♥
2010-12-10 14:52:05 UTC
No, they're wild birds that live in flocks of other sparrows, you should not keep one living in a cage all alone when it should be free. That's cruel. People who keep sparrows probably bred them or kept them when they were only hatchlings or if they're nursing them back to health. You should never keep a wild sparrow especially if it's an adult, it'll never become tamed and will never bond with you.

Don't take a baby bird out of it's nest, a person who doesn't have any experience with looking after young birds will make it die in only a couple of days.



Get a bird from a pet store or don't get one at all.
?
2016-10-19 05:05:50 UTC
this is not unlawful! you get carry of IT? The English living house Sparrow is a popular reason for the decline of the Bluebird besides via fact the pink Martin populations in North united statesa.. the living house Sparrow is particularly aggressive and competes for nesting cavities. no longer purely does this displace the natives from chosen nesting sites, yet whilst the natives go away their nest unattended, the sparrow will oftentimes enter the nest and harm the eggs and/or kill the nestlings. If an person Bluebird is unlucky adequate to be caught in a nest field via a house Sparrow, the sparrow will use its efficient beak to p.c.. a hollow in its rival's cranium subsequently killing it. the living house Sparrow has carried out untold harm to the interior of sight populations of hollow area nesters in North united statesa. and, in actuality, as early as 1903 in his e book The Birds of Ohio, W.L. Dawson mentioned "without question the main deplorable adventure interior the history of yank ornithology became the introduction of the English Sparrow."
Xena
2010-12-10 15:40:46 UTC
No. It is definetly not OK, and yet, it is also illegal.



People who have pet sparrows or crows or birds that aren't sold as pets, they find as an ABANDONED baby.



If you want a tame pet, without a bunch of diseases, etc., etc., then don't take one from the wild.
Eren
2010-12-10 14:46:34 UTC
Really? watch some animal planet. google it.

It is never ok to catch a wild animal and have it as a house pet! It is a wild animal. It can carry diseases and isn't tame.

If you don't know what a sparrow eats or how to take care of it maybe you shouldn't get it!
anonymous
2010-12-10 14:42:05 UTC
Taking birds from the wild is illegal. House Sparrows are noisy sociable flock birds they would not be suitable as a "pet" at all.
Calypso
2010-12-10 14:50:17 UTC
It would be cruel to steal a bird from the wild. They are meant to live in flocks as well, so if you had only one it would be very depressed.



Do some research instead on small birds like finches. They are not expensive and can be purchased at your local pet ship. http://www.efinch.com/varieties.htm
Rachel
2010-12-10 17:31:50 UTC
taking a wild bird from the wild will die from stress being being caged if your not willing to buy one don't go stealing them out of the wild just makes you more irresponsible then you already are.
anonymous
2010-12-11 13:18:20 UTC
House sparrows are very dirty and FULL of diseases. People get seriously sick from them.
Star
2010-12-10 14:48:49 UTC
It is illegal to own any native songbird.

Besides issues with disease and parasites, you would need a permit from the government.
anonymous
2010-12-10 14:57:03 UTC
i eat birds


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