New Pet Pigeon or Not?

[kim#1animalover]

This Website isw great! After reading some of the other forums that answered many of my questions but I have some others. I found my 2nd pigeon today, or I guess you could say he found me. I think he was also in front of the house yesterday. He came to the right place. I worked with animals for five years. The last pigeon I found I was working at an animal hospital where I had the vet bandage her broken wing. I boarded and cared for her there for a number of weeks and soon the wing was healed and I realeased her back into the wild. This one I have not figured out why it can not fly. It somewhat did after he walked into the garage and then some boxes fell and he got spooked and ended up on the window sill. Otherwise he seems to be healthy. He does not seemed to be frightened of me. So my question is what is the right thing to do? I plan on taking him to a vet no matter what (I don't know if my vet knows birds or can help if not I will take him to the vet that helped my other one). Is it the right thing to rehibilitate them and then let them go back into the wild? I am totally willing to keep him as a pet and give him a great life. He is so adorable. He is BIG. A dark color with just a few green frathers around his neck. No matter what he is safe now, I am sure one of the neighboorhood cats would have gotten him. He would have a lot of free time outside the cage if I kept him. I do not have any cats, two rescue dogs that love other animals. He was evenright next to our fence with them, not scared at all. We have the bird feeders out there near them. All the birds are use to them. So that is my question. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance! Kim

PS Is there any way to tell the age or sex? I have named him Marty because he looks like a boy otherwise if not she is Emilia.