You are right cara pace (funny name
). I think I should aclare somethings. By one way, I have wide experience with little animals and also I am from Mexico. There, 30 years ago, there were not all these centres to help wild animals as all you have here. I remember that as a child vets were to cure cows and horses and mistakes on dogs and cats were more or less frequents. I remember one day that a vet gave an overdoses to one of my cats and almost died
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Also I am biologist so I have some criteria about what sort of food animals should have, what to do to avoid the animal be too much close to humans in order to survive in nature, etc. Of course, I am open to listen what can be done but I analise the information given
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And when I say experts, well in France there were people for saying, knowing a lot about birds (identification, migrations, giving talks to public about these subjects, etc), however, they knew nothing about how to help a bird if it was hurt. And like that, instead of saying humbly "I dont know", they gave a negative view... "nothing can be done for baby birds, they die..".
Now in UK, I heard the same commentary of a scientist that study bird behaviour of tits and she said the best it is leaving chicken to die than collect them. I disagree completely. Of course there are species that can manage to feed their youngs from ground but just leaving to die, I dont agree.
. If I had never taken any little animal with me, I had never learnt all what I know now about them. With the little swift, I kissed him at the end when he left because before meeting him, I did not know their cycle of life of these wonderful birds.