chickadee found?

Question

I found a chickadee bird when I was getting the mail. I think it has a broken leg. I can't seem to find any local places or shelters that will take it. What do I do?

Answer 1

Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. You can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm



Licensed wildlife rehabilitators have the specialized training to care for sick, injured and orphaned wild animals. They also have the required state and federal licenses that allow them to keep the wild animals until they are healthy enough to be released back into the wild.



Do NOT take the bird to a vet - vets are for pets and most vets do not have the expertise to deal with wild animals, nor do they have the proper licenses to keep recouperating wildlife.



In the US, all native migratory birds are protected by federal law (Migratory Bird Treaty Act), and it is illegal to have a protected bird in your possession unless you have the required permits.

Answer 2

Chances are your local animal shelter will only take cockatoos or household birds. Animal shelters aren't used to taking in wild outside birds. I've worked in an animal shelter for 7 years now and we don't accept outside birds, only the ones found at pet stores. if you care for it yourself, it should be healthy within 2 weeks tops. Put it in a cage or a place where it can breathe. Feed it seeds or crushed crackers. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

placed them lower back the place you discovered them. basically simply by fact which you scared the mum off the nest does no longer mean she would be waiting to no longer return. Birds do no longer abandon their nests simply by fact they have been touched that's a delusion. additionally the poster that stated preserving the eggs at 50-60 stages Fahrenheit is unquestionably incorrect that's plenty to chilly for eggs the suitable incubation temperature is ninety 9-102 stages Fahrenheit. Regardless you're able to return the nest to the place you discovered it and desire the mum returns (simply by fact that she has in all possibility simply by fact that lower back and located her nest lacking) as your possibility of hatching the eggs without suitable incubator are slender and whether they do hatch your probabilities of preserving the chick alive without experience are on the factor of 0. Even breeders that hand feed do no longer pull new child chicks as they are next to impossible for human beings to maintain alive at that age. Chicks which tend to be hatched in an incubator and raised via human beings from beginning are game chicken species which could devour on their own from beginning. (chickadees can not)

Answer 4

try your local Audubon chapter. call them and they will know. go to the Nautional Audobun society web page.



http://www.audubon.org

http://www.audubon.org/states/index.php (find local one)



they should be able to help you.



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if not them, a vet can set the leg. if it is a wild adult bird it can be re-released. try to find a certified Avian Vet (they can be far away) or one that does exotic animals (like reptiles).

call emergency line, do not leave poor thing over-night if you can help it!



find a cage for it. feed it wild bird seed (black sunflower seeds) while you have it, with water, and leave it alone so it doesn't see humans cuz it will panic with humans. then let it go?



(to all you bird owners with your finger over the thumbs-down button: yes, i know a seed diet isn't good for birds. i have birds. i'm saying it can keep the bird alive while the leg heals. you don't wanna switch a wounded chickadee to Harrisons pellets, lol )



good luck to the little birdie! hurry!

Answer 5

Chickadees eat thistle seed not sunflower seed.

Answer 6

Give your vet a phone call and ask them, my vet has been very helpful to me in the past.