Me and baby brother walking along one of the lakes that make up Sattal, and coming across this kingfisher hatcling / fledgeling. It was helpless, scared, noisy, and we couldn't help but imagine the fate of this bird by the evening - making for nutrition to a fox or a raven. It tried, but gave up resisting our presence, and we stood within a couple of feet, observing it; or maybe it just didn't have instinct to sense our presence once we ceased any movement. By initial instinct, I though that having it at a higher point would help and proceeded to cover it with my shirt, but in the process of picking it up, a second instinct made it seem pointless, for it'd fall down again, maybe hurting itself even worse. We left it there, just helping it to one side of that 3-foot wide track.Seriously need to know the protocol for handling fledglings fallen down their nest, vulnerable and visible to everything out there, with no mother or nest in nearby proximity. There should be an instructable for this!
Rather than airing those almost-farcical measures to take during earthquakes (like ducking under a nearby table is a highly evolved understanding), they should've put their heads into this.
UPDATE: There's plenty of help available. But it basically confirms that one is helpless in a situation that I detailed above.
- http://www.messingerwoods.org/babybirds.htm
- http://www.allaboutbirds.org/faq#q-my-son-brought-1
- http://www.valleywildlifecare.org/HELP__I_found_a_baby_bird_.html
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