If a baby bird is found out of a nest many people panic and think the tiny creature is in need of rescue. STOP!
Most likely that baby bird has parents near by. This California towhee is still downy and is unable to fly, but its parents have purposefully moved it out of the nest. It is sitting in this spot just a foot off the ground because its parents led it to this safe location and told their chick to stay there.
Some birds find greater survival rates for their chicks by encouraging them out of low lying nests and moving them to different locations in clumps of grass or low shrubs. This chick had two parents hunting for food only twenty feet away.
When evening comes, the parents will probably move their two chicks again to a safe roosting spot for the night. A second chick was under our car port.
Birds are very good parents. Even in cases where predators have damaged nests and chicks have fallen out, parent birds will come back and feed their offspring. Handling a chick and putting it back in the nest will not scare off the parents. Hummingbird chick.
The best caregiver for a baby bird is its parents. They provide the right food and in some cases bacteria and enzymes necessary for digestion.
Baby birds need their parents. Watch from a distance and you will be amazed at the attention and care they give their chicks.
Bewick's wrens build a nest.
Baby bird in grass
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Hummingbird nests.
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