You can never touch a baby bird! If a human’s scent gets on the baby, its parents will abandon it.” As with many pieces of advice that get repeated through the decades, we slowly start to accept it as ...

observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she lives. “The poor warbler almost disappears in the wide-opened mouth of its ‘adopted’ baby,” Slothouber says. And yet “the ...

Usually, the baby bird's parents are somewhere close by ... Can baby birds survive without their mother? No, baby birds can’t ...