Sickly Red Breasted Robin
Hi fellow Feathered Friends,
Today the little man and I came across a bird that was sadly sickly!
Sickly Red Breasted Robin
When we go out for walks, we tend to see a whole lot of wildlife! This walk here was no different except we saw something we don't usually see: an injured but still alive animal!
Our son has quite the big heart, he gets sad over things that we are a bit desensitized to as adults like seeing an injured animal. Don't get me wrong I feel bad seeing an injured animal however you end up understanding that it's just how nature works. This time, our son got a little taste of that reality but we made some effort to rescue the little fella!
This red breasted robin was worse for weary that's for sure. We were walking and we came upon it by accident. We were walking near some cars and the little man got a little too close to the critter and it spooked it so it was flopping around a bit. I felt bad and the poor thing was in a parking spot so I didn't want it to get crushed by a car. There are quite a few elderly people that can't see very well (no offense to the silvers!) that live where we do and I knew that this thing was going to get crushed so we grabbed some sticks and got to work.
I knew that we wouldn't be touching the critter, you never know what the heck is going on with these things and I've never seen this type of strange behavior in a bird so I knew I wasn't going to mess around. As cool as it would be to pick one up, this one was in rough shape. We think that the thing ingested some of the grass seed that they sprayed all over the ground or something. It acted more poisoned than anything and I felt bad but I also didn't know of a way to kill it off without crushing it with a rock or something brutal. Didn't want the little man to get horrified on that one lol
We ended up grabbing some sticks and moving it over to the grass and kind of propped it up a bit for a few reasons. If the bird was just a little poisoned or something, if it recovered it was in a spot that would allow it to fly away if it could. It also was highlighted to people walking that it was an injured animal and nobody would step on it by accident not realizing what it was on the ground.
The bird was a little strange in that it had periods of lucidity where it would flutter its wings, puff itself up and adjust the feathers to be neat again so it seemed like it was a little sick with something but not hopeless. In any case though we tried to do our best to make the bird sort of comfortable while giving it a chance to fly away if it wanted to.
We were certainly not expecting to have such a sort-of tragic #WednesdayWalk but that's how it turned out!
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Poor little guy. I've always liked robins.
Me too! They are a cool bird and quite the active ones as well!
Predators can still take him/her very quickly. Especially predatory birds. They see it from above. They know that the bird is in a vulnerable position. Easy prey. The best thing to do probably would have been to take the bird home to a safe place, and to help him/her recover.
I hope that the bird recovered and survived.
Have a nice day. All the best. Greetings and much love from Hungary.
Normally taking the bird in might be okay but right now there's a deadly bird flu virus going around. People shouldn't touch any sick bird right now and Complxy and his son need to contact the DNR and tell them where the bird is so they can fetch it up and test it. It's crucial right now because this flu is spreading rapidly, killing thousands of wild birds and also infecting farms where chicken and Turkeys are raised causing them to kill off flocks in the millions. If found to be in a local or region they will get the local news to ask people to stop feeding the birds for awhile to stop the spread and to disinfect any feeders and bird baths regularly. This one call could potentially save the lives of hundreds of birds and help stop any chance of infecting birds people raise for the food supply.
Thanks for checking it out! I don’t know if we would have been able to bring it in the house, my wife would have flipped out lol
If it was a more exotic bird I could have felt a little more compassion for it and called animal control or something but there are tens of thousands of these things around so I felt it was better to just let nature take it’s course.
Cmplxty you and your son need to contact your local department of natural resources or health department to have them come get the bird tested. There is a deadly bird flu circulating that is killing off millions of birds including birds being raised for the food supply. You were very wise not to touch the bird. It is crucial though to get the bird tested, you could be potentially saving millions of birds lives as they will send out notices to the public to stop feeding the birds to help stop the spread.
Ah I had the thought in the back of my mind that it may be bird flu, I did hear something about that relates to the price of chicken.
This was about 5 days ago and I doubt the bird is anywhere near the place we found it. If someone didn’t take it and move it, throw it in the dumpster or an animal ate it I would be shocked. When we went back to the spot a couple hours later we didn’t see it at all so something happened to it.
I’ll still call animal control and let them know we found it although it was many days ago now and see if they care to come out to look around. Thanks for letting me know about that! I’m glad that we didn’t touch it at all lol
They've found it a couple of counties over in birds and if I remember correctly in one large farming operation somewhere in the state. They asked people to stop feeding the birds early if possible or soon as they would be able to find food on their own after winter. I usually stop for the summer because I want them to eat the bugs! The last two years though I've had ducks show up, a couple in particular. So I stopped putting food in the feeder and spread it out in several different areas until the ducks move on. Shouldn't be to long now and they'll be nesting somewhere else in anticipation of having little ducklings to protect.
sad to see a sickly bird but how kind of you to take the time and move it to somewhere safer where hopefully it can recover
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Yeah it was sad to see it, I guess it may have been bird flu! I’m glad we didn’t touch it lol
OHh yes very good idea not to touch it not worth the risk these day s
Awesome pics-Bird looks really tame
Hahah I think the thing was one foot in the grave!
Thats sad hey,,but that is the circle of life bud