What to do with tiny chicks?!?

Question

Help! My dad has just chopped the top off a tree and a tiny nest (i think its a wrens nest) fell out with five chicks. My dad didnt realise and accidently stepped on two of the them. I quickly picked up the three remaining chicks and placed the nest back in the tree, however not in the same place. We are now staying away hoping the mother will come back but i have a bad feeling she won't! What should we do?

Answer 1

phone rspca

Answer 2

Look in the phone book and call your local "exotics" vet.  An exotics vet is one that specializes in birds, reptiles, rodents and such.  They will have the phone # to the local wildlife rehabilitator, or will at least have advice on how to handle the situation.  Really any vet should have the wildlife #, but the exotics ones get these kinds of phone calls everyday.  If you are in the U.S. you can try our SPCA (we don't have an "R" in front of ours) but your best bet here is the vet or call 411 and see if they can give you a direct # to wildlife rescue in your area.

Answer 3

I am a member of the RSPB. I had a similar problem a few weeks ago when the house martins nest in the eaves of my house fell down onto the floor. The chicks were chirping like crazy. I emailed the RSPB and they replied saying put the nest where cats can't get at it, as near to the original site as possible. I put it in an adjacent tree but the parents did not return and sadly the chicks died. It's nature that calamites happen to wild life ,as indeed to us. The species will survive however

Answer 4

really the only thing you can do is leave them and let nature take its course. the mother may come back or not. at the vets i work at we have rspca leaflets about wild birds and they tell you to do just that.

its very hard to hand rear tiny baby birds as alot of the time they die from shock anyway, so unless you have a specialist wildlife centre nearby, its best just to let alone i'm afraid.

Answer 5

Leave them alone and let nature take it's course and hope for the best.

Answer 6

You have to put the nest back exactly (I mean the exact spot) where it was, and the mother will come back.

If that's not possible, call the local vet-they usually have resources for people who raise orphaned birds.

Answer 7

ask mc donalds for some sweet and sour and fry those chickies up.....roflmao