Awwww what did you do with it?

Ate it. :p
Put it in a tree, so other animals wouldn't eat it.

And because of that, the mother will never take care of it ever again, and the baby will die.

Still really cute though.

I had to disprove this to a teach to avoid a few days in in-school suspension... No, that is utter bull deification. Birds lack most olfactory senses and cannot smell humans on anything. Why they may not return to the nest is for two reasons: 1) they kicked it out/if fell out and they have no means to put it in a nest 20ft in the air, so they give up on it. 2) They just see that you were near the chick and are too scared to fight, so they flight/think that you are going to eat it and there is no hope.

That last one I know about. But I never knew they would kick their on chick out lol.

Wait...you were going to get a in school suspension because you picked up a baby bird...wow xD

Yeah, this nurse lady was super mean and a control freak. She must have thought I was trying to kill it. >_>
Yeah, I've seen it a few times. I think it is the equivalent to postpartum depression or when rodents eat the babies.

i'm guessing there was something wrong with the baby. I've seen my hamster eat one of her babies, but that's only because the little baby had a deformity and was very mal nourished when he came out. He was the runt in the litter.

I guess se would think that, being a nurse and all that and thinking "all those damn kids wanting to destroy everything" xD

She really didn't like me in particular. It was strange.

It must be how awesome you were. People that are jealous get angry alot.

:3

Sometimes baby birds have problems that the mother is aware of, and we just aren't, like not gaining weight properly, or not digesting right, or they become sick with a birdy cold that the mother is afraid she might catch and they just dump the babies out. I found this out the hard way when I collected an entire nest of baby mocking birds and purchased a very expensive insect mulsh that is used to boost the stomaches of exotic birds when they become sick and fed them for a whole day before they slowly died one right after the other the next morning. Come to find out, they had digestive failure or something like that and were born unable to poop right. That's why momma dumped them. :/

I'm glad you stuck around to prove that teacher wrong. Some people become uneducated through old bluffs that their parents tell them to try to keep them out of trouble and unfortunatly keep that crap stuck in their heads. Like crap like 'don't touch a litter of kittens or the momma will stop feeding them'. . . people are dumb. :P

They are very dumb to not further research a subject.

That's an urban legend. Birds' sense of smell isn't as developed as we give them credit for. They do sometimes neglect babies that have fallen to the ground, though.

I think parents tell their kids that so they wont pick them up and take them home :o

awww thats so cute ^w^

It looks like you're smashing it :/

It was trying to get away, but I was not hurting it. :3 It looked so tasty though.

Odd, I did the exact same thing today, with the same species and age.

We are brothers!

I have to have someone drag me away from the gerbles in pet stores because when I look down in the little display tanks and see them all balled in the corner it makes me want to squirt spray-on butter on them and scoop them into my mouth. It wouldn't be so bad if every time I saw something fluffy I didn't have the urge to admit these things OUT LOUD. XD

Oh my tits this is adorable!
What a derpy look on her face.

When I was younger, about 13 or 14, we had a hummingbird nest in a tree of ours. She was a very persistent mother, would dive bomb anyone getting near the nest (my mom found that she was in the tree from the mother doing that). When she was away from the nest, I would look at the babies, but not touch them. Eventually, they got old enough they could fly (but weren't actively doing that). I got close to the nest and both of them flew away, but stayed near the nest. The mom found them and kept feeding the both of them, even though they weren't in the nest and were in a nearby tree.