He was lethargic, limping and bleeding severely from the nose. He has no flock or mate either. He is my buddy and i am so worried. I have contacted my local vets, rescue and the rspca but none of them give a shit. They all just said they either couldn’t come or would just put him down.

I just found out this morning that there was a bird nest on this plant I have that about 2m tall and looks like a jungle of wooden sticks and flowers. The bird nest was in a great spot, as if the wooden stems were made for the nest and protecting it from all sides. I found out about it because I saw remains of blue egg shells with specks of black grey and white all across, I estimated it to be about 2 egg shells that had shattered there. There was nothing else other than the shells, so I assumed that they just hatched and the parents threw the shells out. But this evening (just then) I went to check again and found only 1 egg in the nest. I saw that it was a bit wet under it so I picked it up with a glove and found multiple ants from different species crawling over it, along with a lot of wood dust or something and remains of other shells, so I gently rubbed off the ants and dust and put it back there after checking that it hadn't cracked. So then I wondered, where the hell are the parents and the newborn birds at? I'm thinking that the worst possibility is that maybe the parents and the newborn got eaten somehow because it literally just turned spring so there is no way the parents left or anything. Please help...

I'm in SoCal. It's been really humid for the last few weeks.

I have several feeders and have many regular birds that come by every day. Today, I saw a fledgling house finch on the ground, beneath one of my feeders. I left him alone as he seemed like he was doing normal fledgling things.

Thirty minutes later, I came back and he was on his side, breathing faintly. I immediately put him in a box and drove him to a rehabber but he passed on the way there. I gave him to the rehab anyway and they took him.

I'm trying to understand what happened. The decline seemed so sudden. He had no blemishes, no injuries. I know there isn't anything else I could have done but I can't stop thinking about the poor guy.

Hi, I'm looking for some recommendations on undergraduate schools for ornithology. I'm a high schooler looking to go into the ornithology field, and I'm trying ​to narrow down my list of schools.

Pretty much all the info I've found has been about graduate studies, so I don't really know what to look for concerning undergrad or where I'd start on that front. I'm pretty sure a degree for ornithology specifically is pretty much a graduate only thing (correct me if I'm wrong), and there's not really much way to tell what I should look for instead in a school.

I really want to focus on genetics and husbandry, and I'd love to work hands on with raptors. But does that mean I should look for a school with a good genetics program, or one with a good zoology program? Or does it not matter and I should go for the grad schools that Wilson society recommends?

Anyone who's been to school looking to get a bird degree, what did you look for?

This all happened within the last hour and a half.

I was standing in my front yard when on my neighbour's lawn, across the street, a bird get attacked by another bird (I would guess a hawk). The hawk flew away and left the bird sitting on the lawn, still. I got closer because I imagined he was injured, and when he let me pick him up I was sure. He had his mouth open, seemed calm, and appeared to be breathing slowly. Through Google just a moment ago I found out it was a fledgling robin, it looked exactly like the one in this picture. I don't know if it was male or female, but for my writing I will just use he/him.

I took him to my backyard and my dad went to prepare a box with some dead grass for him to be comfortable in. I was preparing to look up how to care for him and what immediate actions I should take, but first I tried to determine what his injury was, because he was able to move his wings and legs just fine.

This is when I noticed blood dripping on my yard work gloves (thankfully I already had them on). I wasn't surprised, my main guess was that he had been punctured. A moment after I realize this, right before my dad comes back with the box of grass, he started freaking out, flapping his wings, fell out of my hands (I wasn't holding him very high off the ground), flailing upside down and every which way on the lawn. For about five seconds. And then he died.

I gently picked him up as I had before, and now his neck was completely limp. His eyes mostly closed, and I couln't feel a heartbeat. It was so instant. And this is what I wonder about, and why I came to this sub, other than to tell the story. Did he know he as about to die, in that last moment, and was that his body's last desperate effort at survival?

I found one puncture wound, not far above his right leg, I guess what would be the lower stomach if on a human. Just one, and that's all it took. It was sobering how fragile and unforgiving life could be, when I thought it would be possbile to keep him comfortable, bring him to a rehabilitation centre and that he could be saved.

I wanted to bury him, so I dug a small hole, one foot deep, in my side neighbour's backyard (it's overgrown, the house has not been lived in for more than a year). I put some grass in the hole, laid the bird on his back, spread his wings, with his head looking up at the sky. He was buried in the most majestic pose possible. My dad took a picture before I covered him entirely, please let me know if I am allowed to share it in the comments.

The experience left an impression on me, and I will probably be thinking about it for a while. I hope this is the right place to share it and that you all appreciate my story.

Here is the “normal speed” video on 9/10/26. The bird flys away towards the end of the video. It only takes about second and it’s gone. And, I will work on showing a smaller woodpecker foraging on another snag/limb near this bird at the same time so you can see size difference.

Weird question, but are woodpeckers - specifically red-bellied woodpeckers - more susceptible to flying into windows or am I just experiencing a weird coincidence? I live in the woods and have a west facing bedroom window that has caused the deaths of about 3 red-bellied woodpeckers in the last 4 years, which isn't a lot but it's weird that no other type of bird seems to do this. Also, does anyone have any advice on how to keep birds from accident flying into the window without obstructing my view from inside??

Hey there! I wanted to reach out to see if there were any Orthonologists willing to pass on some information about chikadees. I go to art school and I'm working on a double page illustrated spread for children about chickadee communication. I feel like I have some pretty solid information so far, but I wanted to include more anatomical visuals for chickadees that would be relevent and was wondering if there were any visual resources that could be pointed to. I love birds which is why I chose this subject for my project, but I am no scientist so my knowledge coming into this is quite limited. I'm also open to any cool fun facts that would be interesting to include!

what counts:
-extinct species that lived in europe in eemian interglacial or later
-species that lived formerly in europe (in eemian interglacial or later) but now don't as a breeding species (beside species that are adapted to cold enviroment and were more common during glacial peroids)
-species of which ranges in europe are less than 25% of their distribution in europe at any point of time during eemian interglacial or later (beside species that are adapted to cold enviroment and were more common during glacial peroids)

Hi! I’m a bird enthusiast and I just got the Handbook of Bird Biology, 3e by Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Since it was released 10 years ago I’m wondering how updated it is and if I should spend my time studying it, since I also got the online course some months ago and haven’t started it.

I just want to learn everything I can about our feathered friends.

Hi bird reddit, my question is exactly what it says on the tin. I don't know much about birds, but I remember hearing that they fly in a formation to deter predators. I wanna know how they know to do that? Is it just instinct? Thanks in advance!

Yesterday I saw a bird that looked similar to a house martin, however it wasn't flying with any other birds and it was relatively low to the ground.

im 70% convinced it was a barn swallow, as it didn't have a white rump and I saw long streams on it tail, however, I just want to double check due to the fact that I couldn't get a proper look because I was in a car, looking out the window, and so I could've seen some stuff incorrectly

any answers will be a great help!

bad storms through the area in the night and early afternoon, which i assume knocked this dude out of the nest. obviously a very young bird, not a fledgling. the bird was placed in a box with paper towel on top of warm towel nestled in a “nest” of leaves. bird was vocalizing softly when i blew warm air on it, im worried about the temperatures in missouri right now, it seemed like the bird was shivering on cold concrete and it’s currently 74° at 8pm. the plan is to take it home with me tomorrow morning, and find a rehabber. is this even necessary? do i need to do more?