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How much do you love birds?

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I like birds. Birds are dinosaurs and are therefore automatically the coolest kind of animal. Also ducks have giant corkscrew cocks and I think that's pretty swell.
 
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Ted_Breakfast said:
A couple of years ago, I was awakened by the sound of a Mourning Dove crashing into my window. I rushed outside, gently placed the dove into a box full of rags and paper towels so a local cat wouldn't maul him, and hoped he would recover. My ex's daughter saw what I was doing and I asked her not to tell her little brother, in case things went bad. I sat with the poor dove all day long, hoping that my presence as a hideous, featherless colossus would calm him down. I doubt it did.

He died about 10 hours later, despite my childlike attempt to offer him food and water. He never flew again. I buried him before anyone else noticed and to this day I hate myself for not doing more. The only benefit is that, before that day, I'd never seen a dove's pupils, and they're just as beautiful as you'd imagine.
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Honestly, you did the best you could. Most wildlife rescues don't do more than what you did. Rest and safety gives a bird the chance to recover from a head injury. You've got to be careful with head injuries and heat, but it doesn't sound like you gave it too much of that. The injury was just too much. At least the bird did not die fearful of predators.
 
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