Urgent help...baby pigeons without a mother

[wildlife-rehab]

if there is not enough room for the parents to sit,they will hover over the babies to try and feed them, so this may look like they are being attacked, i think if they were getting attacked by another bird then they will of been taken by now when you went there and killed. most birds that eat young birds look totally differnt in shape colour and size so im sure u would no if it wasnt a pigeon.

this is tricky for you!
let us no when u have watched the video

[Lovebirds]

Here's another one with older babies................


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7507ZFm6lw

[animallover07]

thank you guys. You're all to helpful. The darker colored bird came back and I think he fed them, since they were holding eachother's beaks. but thanks. I'll try my best to keep them alive.

[Charis]

The best part is that you may need to do nothing but watch and enjoy the show.

[cyro51]

Thanks for the update! I am so glad that they are being fed.

here is another video of a pigeon feeding its fledged baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEfDDeKLb5A&NR=1

Cynthia

[Lady Tarheel]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this but in the first link wildlife-rehab posted there are a number of other videos showing pigeons. One of them shows a few days old baby pigeon that had been placed in an aquarium with tarantulas for them to feed on it. I find this utterly reprehensible and wanted to know is there any way we can get Youtube to remove it. Why they would allow something like this I'll never understand.

I apologize for inserting this into this thread but it really disturbed me.

[Lovebirds]

Originally Posted by Lady Tarheel

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this but in the first link wildlife-rehab posted there are a number of other videos showing pigeons. One of them shows a few days old baby pigeon that had been placed in an aquarium with tarantulas for them to feed on it. I find this utterly reprehensible and wanted to know is there any way we can get Youtube to remove it. Why they would allow something like this I'll never understand.

I apologize for inserting this into this thread but it really disturbed me.

I saw that too.......... I'm a member of YouTube, so I could try contacting them and see about having it removed. I know it's disturbing.........it just made me cringe, but in actuality, it's just someone feeding an animal I guess. Don't know anything about tarantula's and frankly don't care to, so don't know if this is a cruel joke or if this is something that goes on regularly. I mean people feed snakes live mice and I think that's horrible, but it's done everyday by people who like snakes ( ) as much as we like pigeons. Not sure that it has to be made into a video though. Pretty sick I think. I'll check it out.........

[Lovebirds]

Maggie, I don't think they will remove it. Believe me, you don't want to know what else is on YouTube.......as horrible as these videos are, and there are LOTS of them with snakes and spiders, BIG snakes and BIG spiders eating all sort of little defenseless animals. I'm about to loose my dinner. BUT.........there are tons of videos on there like this one and YouTube isn't going to remove them all and they aren't going to remove one just because its got a baby pigeon and it offends pigeon people.
If someone else wants to give it a try (getting it removed) go ahead. I think you'll be wasting your time though.
Snakes and spiders got to eat too I guess..........not sure why, cause I'm not a fan of either one, big or small, but that's just me.

[wildlife-rehab]

oh god!
i didnt see that
thats horrible
if we all message them they might take it down?
sorry for revealing that! i didnt look at the others

people can be so cruel

[wildlife-rehab]

its against the law now to feed live food to animals, apart from insects so that is somebody litterly being cruel.

[Pidgey]

They could be anywhere in the world so maybe the laws don't apply wherever they are.

Pidgey

[wildlife-rehab]

ahhh! good point :]

[Trees Gray]

wildlife-rehab,

Could you remove the link for now.... if the author of the thread has seen the video of the baby being fed?

Perhaps another one can be used to serve the purpose for now.

Thank you

[Lady Tarheel]

Many thanks to all of you for responding. The person who made the video had UK in front of their name so I'm assuming they live in the UK. I know stuff like this goes on but, honestly, I don't want to see it. I will have that baby's face in my memory for a long time.

I keep live mealworms on hand all the time for the occasional wild songbird we may find that needs help before I can get it to our rehabber, or for our outside blue birds. I guess there's not any difference in my feeding them to birds than people feeding live mice to snakes but I don't put it on Youtube.

And, wildlife-rehab, don't worry about your posting that link. I look at the pigeon videos from time to time and could just as easily have found it that way.

Animallover07, again I apologize for intruding on your thread.

[wildlife-rehab]

i didnt even know it was on there
ive removed the link!