why-animals-do-the-thing:

im-a-mother-fucking-bald-eagle:

sliceofphan:

reptarleparrot:

flockdynamics:

daniphantomofficial:

Baby fell out of the tree. She couldn’t fly very well in the wind, so I picked her up and put her back in her nest 🙂

Hoorah! PUT BABY BIRDS BACK IN THE NEST GUYS and if you can’t reach the nest but you can see it and the parents are hanging around, you can make a little makeshift nest. THE PARENTS WILL STILL CARE FOR IT the idea that they’ll smell you and reject it is a myth started by people who didn’t want their kids handling wild animals.

Just a quick reiteration of a spring/summertime psa.

That myth is all the more ridiculous once you realize that birds have terrible senses of smell

is the myth really false everyone I’ve ever talked to has told me the same thing

THE MYTH IS FALSE AS HELL BIRDS HAVE A SHIT SENSE OF SMELL AND ARE AMAZING AND LOVING PARENTS

Actually, we’re finding that some groups of birds have a much better sense of smell than we thought! But that’s not pertinent to fledglings – even if the parents can smell you on the baby bird, that’s not going to make them reject it.