What To Do If You Find A Baby Bird - The Difference Between Fledglings & Nestlings

With nesting season in full swing, this is when you are most likely to find a baby bird. Finding a baby bird always is stressful to figure out the right thing to do. Although, there are different stages of growth and they may not always need your help. Find out what to do if you find one, and how to determine whether or not it needs help in this video.

Fledglings are baby birds that have just left the nest. They are learning how to fly. If a bird is a fledgling, it is nearly fully feathered, and is able to stand, hop, flutter, and hold onto things. Most likely, if a fledgling has no visible signs of injury or illness, it is perfectly fine and its parents are somewhere nearby keeping an eye on it. One of the biggest mistakes made by people, with good intentions is "saving" perfectly healthy fledglings who are just learning how to fly.

Nestlings are baby bird that still rely on their parents. If you found one outside of a nest, most likely it has fallen. If a bird is a nestling, it is usually sparsely feathered, and is not able to stand, hop, flutter or hold onto things. Most of the time, if you find a nestling, it probably needs help.

If a bird is injured or ill, both parents are found dead, or in the case of a nestling you can't find the nest or it has been abandoned by the parents, contact a wildlife rehab. I would contact one before even interacting with a baby bird.

Contacting a wildlife rehab to get their expert advice is never a bad idea, even if it is just for something like a fledgling.

The link to help people in the US find a wildlife rehab in their area: https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/how-find-wildlife-rehabilitator

The link that describes how to make an artificial nest: https://www.helpbabybirds.ca/s/do/fallenNest.html

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