Advice on a black naped oriole which won't leave my balcony (1 Viewer)

[SvdV]

Hello knowledgable bird people. For 36 hours, a black naped oriole has been chirping from our garden/balcony. We live in a house in Jakarta. It has been trying to fly inside our house and won't leave. We have never seen this bird in the wild in Jakarta here before. Apparently some people keep this beautiful birds in cages here which breaks my heart a little. So maybe it's escaped from a cage. In any case, it won't leave our balcony and we don't know whether to just leave it questioning whether it will survive in the wild or not, in case it was kept in a cage and human-fed. We're concerned it keeps flying into the walls and windows of our house, it could really injure itself. What should I do. Leave it? Leave food for it and if so, what? Try and lure it into a cage and then what - find a sanctuary? It's also very loud

Any insights, advice, recommendations really welcome. We're all getting quite concerned including my young children. Photos attached.

Thanks,
Sar

 

[earlytorise]

Prevention of birds crashing into glass has been well-studied.

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More info on Google if you wish.

As for its survival: Black-naped Orioles sometimes occur in the wild in Jakarta. It could also be an escaped cagebird, as you said.

Is the bird still super-active today? Does it look like it has found food on its own?

You are right that Indonesia has a big cagebird trade. Maybe other people have experienced the same thing.
How about calling a birdwatching organisation in your country, asking someone in there to advise you? The example I found is

Burung, Spesies Burung Indonesia, Konservasi Burung, Pelestari Burung Indonesia, Halmahera, Wallacea, Birdlife Indonesia, Burung Indonesia | Conserving Nature, With You!

www.burung.org

Or if they don't answer, email a birdwatching organisation in Singapore - some of the people there will have extensive knowledge of SE Asia.

There could also be Facebook groups of birdwatchers in Indonesia, you could try those.

I hope someone with more experience than me gives you advice. I am only writing this because no one is replying here.

 

[SvdV]

Dear earlytorise, thank you for the helpful advice. I contacted a wildlife rescue org here and they told me they would come at the end of the week, and that I should leave a cage out if I had one, with water and papaya, to see if I could capture it first. Then they would come sooner. But this morning I didn't hear nor see it. I was happy it had moved on to a better location. Later, my helper told me that our neighbour might have captured it so it could be caged up next door. Not sure if it was their bird to begin with, we don't have that info. Oh well.