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Just to clarify, I didn't kidnap this randomly from outside. It found me. It came in through the open front door and was banging on my living room door, it's been 30C for the last few days so we have everything open.

EDIT: Alright after consulting the search engines it seems like an uninjured Fledgling to me. Gonna leave it in the courtyard which is pretty safe (besides neighbour cat possibility) and see how it is tomorrow. Entire internet advice seems to say these birds are still being fed by their parents and are learning to fly.

I put some seed and water down for it though I have no idea if it can use them.

If it looks like its not got anyone feeding it tomorrow then I think it'll be intervention time but for now I'll do what the internet says and "leave fledglings alone".

Contact a local rescue / conservancy group and ask them. The right course of action is species-specific.

There are multiple possibilities and all of these could be wrong:

• Parent bird is kicking out babies because it's time to fly. Baby should not be put back in the nest.

• Siblings are kicking out the weakest bird. Some birds do this. Definitely don't put back in the nest, they'll keep getting kicked out.

• Nest is compromised, too weak, at an angle, etc. Might be able to repair and put back in the nest. This is very unlikely to be the correct course of action because it has lots of feathers and is probably not supposed to go back in the nest.

• Baby has some kind of genetic or developmental variation that has led to the parent or siblings kicking it out. Don't put it back in the nest.

• It's learning how to fly and needs open air and soft ground to avoid injury. Should go to a conservancy group or just get placed in shade in the heat of the day to maximize flying and minimize predation. Crepuscular and nocturnal animals are usually the main predators.

It's got normal feathers instead of just the baby fuzzy ones so I think it can fly, it's just learning still. Sweet little bird

I'm not a bid knower. I recently encountered a bird that was very similar in appearance - like its feathers were too big for its body. I thought it was cut in half because of the proportions from the front. It was just looking at me sitting on a hose. I walked around it and thought i saw guts but it was just pooping a lot. Then a male and female cardinal flew down and started acting very distressed and I realized it was a baby and they were probably trying to get me to stay away and they were teaching it to fly. They have a nest in a bush nearby.

Maybe your bird doesn't need assistance yet, you could put some water out and keep an eye out.

i picked up a little bird on the sidewalk that was flopping around about a month ago.. carried it all the way home and put it in a shoebox with torn up newspaper and a little dish of water and some birdseed, but it was too badly injured to do much, so I took it to the animal shelter and they gave it one look and said it was gonna be humanely euthanized.. i didn't really have a better option so I let them take it :(

Picture of birb added

You do nothing.

If it lives, it lives. If it dies, it dies. Don't intervene with wild animals' lives unless you're an expert in the field.

we used to feed them using an end of a match stick where the food sticks to the wood. i'm not sure anymore what it was we fed them, but about 50% chance they'd survive. everything from sparrows to swifts finches and all kind of birds