Bringing up a fallen chick (1 Viewer)

The tweets of oriental white eyes add music to our ears in a small backyard garden. One day I was surprised to hear the continuous chirp of a chick and went around to investigate. A small chick was on the hard ground , possibly fallen while taking her first leap to fly. I could hear the parents chirping nearby, so I watched -through the lens of my camera. The video has been put together from nearly six hours of footage.


https://youtu.be/3l3ab3WWxGw

Normally when chicks first fledge from the nest they will hang around on the ground below the nest and the parents will keep an eye on them and continue to feed them so I would suggest that you keep a low profile for a bit until the fledgling starts flying.

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KC Foggin said:

Normally when chicks first fledge from the nest they will hang around on the ground below the nest and the parents will keep an eye on them and continue to feed them so I would suggest that you keep a low profile for a bit until the fledgling starts flying.

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I agree. I have observed this happening too. In this case, the chick was probably too weak to fly. It needed few boosts of protein food before it could fly.