I looked it up and it’s completely legal to take in wild injured birds in England so long as they aren’t one of the birds on the list they have ( I checked the list and it’s all mostly large dangerous birds of prey) and we have left it alone now so it can calm down and there’s already some food...
Yes I am from England - when I looked it up i saw some info from RSPB about keeping in a box in a cool quiet room so it can calm down which is basically what we have done so far ! We don’t plan to keep it as a pet unless it needs a foster home since it can’t fly currently, but I’ve been asking...
Oh right I wasn’t sure! And sadly no there isn’t 😢 we’ve looked but not really any options as we kind of live in the middle of nowhere currently with only a pretty crappy vets somewhat nearby. Everything is basically closed now anyway so it’ll be tomorrow when we can start looking more - just...
Found an injured young bird that looks like an adolescent seagull - I don’t think the whole wing is broken, it looks like 3 feathers specifically have been injured 😢 we managed to capture it and we’ve taped the feathers with vet wrap just to keep them in a good place.
What can we do? It settled...