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Baby birds belong in their nests!!! Not the bedroom!!!
Betty Blowtorch:
53 baby birds seized from Colorado teen's bedroom
3 days ago
--- Quote ---LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado have confiscated 53 baby birds from a 15-year-old boy who apparently took them from neighborhood nests and stored them in his bedroom.
Police believe the boy had the birds for at least 24 hours. Authorities confiscated them on June 16 after his mother realized he had them and called animal control.
"He and some other children in the neighborhood had been trying to feed them with little success," Longmont police Sgt. Dave Orr said.
The birds included barn swallows, sparrows and a bluebird. Forty died, but the other 13 are recuperating at the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in nearby Boulder and are expected to survive.
The boy had no explanation for raiding the nests, Orr said. He was ticketed for cruelty to animals and interference with wild birds.
Rehabilitators said the tiny birds have to be fed every 45 minutes and must be kept warm so their digestive systems don't shut down. The birds will be taught to eat and allowed to fly in enclosures so they can eventually be released back into the wild.
Colorado law allows people to transport injured or sick wildlife to a veterinarian or rehabilitation center, but it's illegal to try to care for wild animals.
"Every once in a while, we get animals from people who mean well," Greenwood operations manager Gabriele Paul said. "They don't know it is illegal to do it themselves."
On the Net:
Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: http://www.greenwoodwildlife.org/
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Poor birds.
MsInformed:
Aww, that's kind'a sad. It seems from the report that boy needed something to care for. He *needed* something deeply primal. I hope he gets it.
Angry Dog:
He probably wanted some sort of pet. Don't think the animal cruelty ticket was necessary unless they had a proper reason, though
MsInformed:
I don't think it was necessary either. Poor kid.
Cid:
That's really sad for the kid and the birds. Feeding baby birds is incredibly difficult and should really be left up to the birds' parents.
The animal cruelty thing seems a bit far, unless he was taking the birds in order to kill them. But to me it just sounded like the kid was lonely, maybe he needed a pet of some kind :(
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