On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jacki Bricker wrote:


[snip..]

> > anybody corroborate Michael's advice?
> >
> > Tom
> >
>
> Sorry, no...I can only disagree with it. Whenever we rehabbers found or
> were brought a crash victim, we not only picked it up, but rehabbed them
> and released them. Of course, we *did* give them injections of
> deximethisone to reduce the cerebral sweeling around the brain. After a
> period of time, they were weaned off the dex, and slowly introduced back
> to food and liquids. It was time consuming, but we usually had success,
> unless the bird was in *really* bad shape.
>
> And besides, how do you put a bird into a towel-lined box without picking
> it up?

Jacki--

it wasn't the picking up of the bird he was talking
about; it was what he called the mistaken notion that
a person who finds an injured bird would sit and hold
the bird for an extended period of time thinking it was
best, as holding it kept it warm...he said the bird is
already freaked and holding it only worsens an already
bad situation and could put a bird into shock, who might
not have reacted that way if it was placed quickly in a
darkened place--a box.....I was just wondering what everyone
else thought about that, as it certainly is a natural tendency
to want to hold and comfort an injured bird.

Tom