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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnockerNorton" data-source="post: 1228358" data-attributes="member: 66452">Well that law is almost identical to the one used in Britain, which applies to banders when confronted with an injured bird. It is illegal to release it, as it is abandonment. It is also the same law applied to rehabbers, or anyone else, who abandons a suffering animal. If it is on your premises, especially indoors, and you recognise that it is injured, but do nothing and 'abandon' it to its fate, then the law applies. Seeing as the bird is not on the ground storey, then it is effectively trapped (unless it can use an elevator? or a firedoor and a set of stairs?), ergo it is captive.</blockquote>