Please help with the robin egg?

Question

So, we found this robin egg on my deck yestarday. We dont see any nests just the one egg. I dont think i should touch it, but what should i do? Do i need to call anyone? Is there any chance that the bird will hatch normally or regularly? P.S.... The mother is no where to be found.

Answer 1

its probably already dead,if the egg is a dud the parents will move it or push it out of the nest...

Answer 2

Well the eggs has to be sat on by the mother bird to get warmth so you have to keep it warm so yeah touch it but not alot.

Answer 3

just forget about it. i found one too. no nest in sight, that means the babys gonna die. leave the egg alone. thats what i did. the egg just dried out eventually.

Answer 4

That's a d**n good question.  You got me wondering too so I browsed some and found this site:

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/F...

Answer 5

You can put it back if you find the nest, the touching it thing is a myth, if you cannot find it nothing you can do an animal may have carried it from somewhere you will never find, its nest..

Answer 6

It is too cold to hatch by now. There is a bird ( I forgot it's name) that pushes an egg out of another birds nest, and lays one of it's own egg in place. This is probably what happened to the egg.