Sick spinebill in Civic

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Very hard to know from that, if it was sick. It may have flown into the building and was stunned. I first thought likely to be cold and sunning itself (during which birds sometimes go into a dazed state), but maybe not given that this would have been a warm time. Given this is mid March I would not expect it have have any relationship with parents. My belief is the end of your story is exactly what you should do. 

 

Philip

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] Sick spinebill in Civic

Hi All

At
around 2:00 pm today, I encountered a young eastern spinebill shivering on the
ground behind the little terracotta brick building at the bus depot in
Civic.  It was clearly a young bird as it had no distinctive markings on
its chest; it was in varying shades of olive and brown.  I crouched down
beside it for a few minutes and it and it opened its eyes, looked at me, then
closed them again.  I was crouching only 40cm away and it did not make any
effort to move.  There was no sign of any of its parents.  I decided
to pick it up and put it somewhere out of the way of pedestrians, but it 
squirmed free of my grip before flying to the base of one of the trees next to
the small building.  At that point I left, there was nothing else I could
do.

Does anyone know how I might approach these situations in
future?

Matt.