Looking after injured bird?

Question

Yesterday I found a pigeon being attacked by a load of magpies, so I scared the magpies off and, as the pigeon seemed unable to fly, I decided to look after him as a cat or the birds would have got him otherwise.

I put him in our old rabbit hutch as it's a quiet place and is safe. I put a small dish of water in as it's a large adult pigeon. I also put in some moistened bread for him. He ate a couple of the moistened pieces of bread yesterday early evening. But he hasn't eaten anything since and he hasn't drunk anything. He's just lying in the hutch. He's moved a tiny bit, but very little since putting him in.

I can't really see any injury. His feathers are all ruffled and a bit bent, he did have a tiny sot of blood on his neck, but he doesn't seem to be bleeding now. But for some reason he couldn't fly when we caught him.

I will hopefully take him to an animal centre tomorrow, but is there anything I can do to help him before then? I'm worried about his lack of water and food.

Answer 1

thats well sweet =) have you tried taking him out of the hutch today to see if he can fly? if you try and he still can't fly and looks sick, then theres a good chance that the animal shelter will just put him down as he is not a pet. you could try giving him a few warm towels in the hutch, and some bird seeds rather tahn bread. if he does look worse though, i think maybe you should just try and look after him as best you can and if he does die of natural causes then you will have at least tried to help, but hopefully he will get better and fly away =)

Answer 2

pick it up try to feed it water with a dropper but there may be internal damage sorry good luck

Answer 3

if you can find any bird seed try that. i would just get him to a vet of some sort, its hard to do anything with birds sometimes.