Don’t worry-parent birds do not recognize their young by smell. If you can find the nest (it may be well hidden), put the bird back as quickly as possible. If so, the nest is almost certainly nearby. If the baby bird is sparsely feathered and not capable of hopping, walking, flitting, or gripping tightly to your finger, it’s a nestling. You can watch from a distance to make sure the parents are returning to care for the fledgling. The parents may be attending to four or five young scattered in different directions, but they will return to care for the one you have found. Usually there is no reason to intervene at all beyond putting the bird on a nearby perch out of harm’s way and keeping pets indoors. When fledglings leave their nest they rarely return, so even if you see the nest it’s not a good idea to put the bird back in-it will hop right back out. These youngsters are generally adorable and fluffy, with a tiny stub of a tail. Fledglings are feathered and capable of hopping or flitting, with toes that can tightly grip your finger or a twig. These are young birds that have just left the nest, and can’t fly yet, but are still under the care of their parents, and do not need our help. Most of the baby birds people find are fledglings. The first thing to do is to figure out if the baby bird is a nestling or a fledgling.
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