Birding/Bird egg

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Expert: - 3/31/2007


Question
My daughter found an intact bird egg neatly deposited on our front porch. The egg had obviously been very recently laid. It is a small white egg about the size of a robin egg. Is there anything we can do for it?

Answer
If it was not in a nest, a bird mistakenly laid it there or it was taken out of a nest by a predator -rat, cat, etc. It is much too hard to try to incubate the egg and raise the young yourself. But you might want to bring it to a local wildlife rehab center if you have one and see if they want to try. Roger Lederer at Ornithology.com

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Roger Lederer

Expertise

Any and all about WILD birds - the science of ornithology. Information about birdwatching, ecology, conservation, migration, behavior, banding, rehabilitation, feeding, songs, binoculars, identification, and careers in ornithology. No questions about pet or caged birds, please.

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Have a PhD and over forty years as a professional ornithologist - research, teaching, author, speaker, webmaster of Ornithology.com . Have written thirty scientific papers, three bird field guides, a textbook in ecology and two recent books entitled "Amazing Birds" and "Birds of New England". Have traveled to over 90 countries watching birds.

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PhD in Zoology/Ornithology; Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences; former Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at California State University, Chico

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