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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LabradorDuck" data-source="post: 1673599" data-attributes="member: 80696">If the bird appears healthy, it should be left alone regardless of how "out of place" it is.  It may well survive, as others in this thread have said.  Birds injured due to human activities should be rescued (if our activities are "natural," so is our choice to help minimize their impacts).  It becomes more tricky if a bird is sick or injured due to purely natural causes.  Restoring its health and releasing it could encourage the same risky behavior (would a bird who almost froze to death from not migrating teach its offspring to migrate?), but an organization keeping it for public education, as they do with e.g. raptors who can't be released could be seen as beneficial.  The point about scavenging species depending on natural winter-killed food is important, though.  Of course, for a threatened or endangered species, it might be best to err on the side of keeping a wider gene pool alive.</blockquote>