Baby robin TOO YOUNG??

[Savanna’s chickens]

Saw this baby fly out of a nest while feeding my chickens, more like fall but glide, I didn’t touch it and tried not to stress it out but I don’t know much about wild birds and want to know if it’s too young to be out of the nest the parents seem to be “panicking” and one has a worm in its beak. Not sure how old it is please tell me if I should go back and try to get it back in the nest? I know it might be old enough and if it is I won’t touch it, just making sure

 

[DobieLover]

Saw this baby fly out of a nest while feeding my chickens, more like fall but glide, I didn’t touch it and tried not to stress it out but I don’t know much about wild birds and want to know if it’s too young to be out of the nest the parents seem to be “panicking” and one has a worm in its beak. Not sure how old it is please tell me if I should go back and try to get it back in the nest? I know it might be old enough and if it is I won’t touch it, just making sure

It's old enough to be out of the nest.
The parents are panicking because you are too close to it.
Let the parents take care of it. It will be fine.

 

[danceswithronin]

I do wildlife rehab. It'll be fine, robins fledge their babies on the ground so seeing a feathered one in the grass like this is perfectly normal, part of how they learn to fly. Just make sure there are no outdoor cats lurking nearby or anything.

Rehabilitating orphaned songbirds should be avoided as often as humanly possible in my opinion, the failure rate for raising them by hand is something like 90% and they have to be fed specialized food on the hour from dawn to sunset for weeks - they do much better under the care of their parents.

I raised ten baby barn swallows last year that were orphaned when their nests were pressure-washed off an office building at my brother's workplace, and managed to release eight back into the wild after I taught them to fly. The youngest two did not survive - one was failure to thrive (too young and small to take in enough food) and one was asphyxiation pneumonia, which is a serious danger any time a human tries to hand-feed a very small animal.

It is definitely not an easy undertaking to try and care for a baby wild bird. Not unless you just really enjoy mashing up live mealworms and wet stinky cat food ten times a day.

 

[Savanna’s chickens]

I do wildlife rehab. It'll be fine, robins fledge their babies on the ground so seeing a feathered one in the grass like this is perfectly normal, part of how they learn to fly. Just make sure there are no outdoor cats lurking nearby or anything.

Rehabilitating orphaned songbirds should be avoided as often as humanly possible in my opinion, the failure rate for raising them by hand is something like 90% and they have to be fed specialized food on the hour from dawn to sunset for weeks - they do much better under the care of their parents.

I raised ten baby barn swallows last year and managed to release eight (the youngest two did not survive). It is definitely not an easy undertaking to try and care for a baby wild bird. Not unless you just really enjoy mashing up live mealworms ten times a day.

Thank you! I figured but wanted to be sure, and even if it was young at most I would have waited for the parents to leave and put it in the nest or just watched for predators!