injured wild bird
chocoholic100
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Urgent help!! who can help with a wild bird, I have just found a woodpecker that has been attacked and dont know who to ring, its startled and bleeding but its such a beautiful bird, can bear to see it in pain
im in west yorkshire
im in west yorkshire
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i've left a message with a local rescue centre.
They even had the cheek to ask for a donation at the end of the call.
Unbelievable that the RSPB and RSPCA don't want to know.
myscimitar posted the link to Selby rescue centre, which offers advice on how to care for an injured bird/animal until you can get it to a rescue centre.
Have you got one near you, where you can take the bird to? I appreciate that could be difficult though.
BTW, well done for showing care and attention to this injured bird.
As a rule, I find that all they really want is somewhere dark and safe to recover so I bung 'em in a shoebox (with some air holes in it and some breadcrumbs and a little bowl of water) and leave them in the spare room for a couple of days to recover.
Thing is, harsh as it might sound, if the bird is injured then no vet' is likely to bother doing surgery on a bird (unless it's something fairly simple, like a broken wing) so the best you can hope for is that you'll either be giving it somewhere peaceful to die or somewhere peaceful to recover.
Incidentally, I rescued a homing pigeon this time last year.
It had a broken wing. I contacted the owner and he told me he wasn't bothered about getting it back or not.
In the end I had to pay a vet' to fix the wing, kept the pigeon for a couple of weeks and then let it go when it started flying around the house.
Funny thing was, last weekend I was pottering about in the house and I could hear a loud cooing noise coming from outside.
Went into the kitchen and there was a pigeon walking back and forth, along the window-ledge outside, which I've never seen any bird do before in 15 years of living here.
No idea if it was the same bird but pigeons are supposed to be good at finding their way around so it's nice to think that it might have been.
I know who will be getting a donation on pay day
Fantastic news!
Let's hope it'll be ok.
yeah, they promised to let me know what happens
If you care to look at what these organisations are all about you will find that the RSPCA are a welfare charity and the RSPB are a Conservation charity. The mandates of both are poles apart.
In the first instance, sick and injured birds should be reported to the RSPCA.
Don't think they charge for a wild animal.
Never charged me before.
This is true. Vets are obliged to treat wild animals.
surprised,
http://www.rspca.org.uk/ImageLocator/LocateAsset?asset=document&assetId=1232721695816&mode=prd
Thank you, it looks like he will be ok.
Yes I was told to google local rescue centres or take him to a vets, which would probably mean it would have been put down, as my vet told me when I rang them.
well obviously there is, a rescue centre took it and hopefully it will be ok
Last week my son-in-law caught a bird in a rat trap he'd set in the garden, it was trapped by the neck and next doors cat was standing over it, he chased the cat out of the garden and could not believe his eyes when he released the trap off the bird's neck it give a little tweet and flew off.:D
Well there is and someone cared, helped and gave it a chance.
Meh indeed.
Well done, OP, and I hope it survived.