Bicycle Bird

Bicycle Bird Biologists
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

What to do if you find
a Baby, Injured, or Dead Bird

  • Baby Birds or Injured Birds:
  • Before you pick up any birds, consult the Sacramento Wildlife Care Association's website
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  • In many cases, they should be left alone.


  • Dead Birds:
  • Report dead birds in two ways:
  • Also, please note any dead magpies on your report to Magpie Monitors citing location, date, time.

    • We analyze the Dept of Health dead bird data so your reports to them are valuable.
    • The Dept. of Health cannot pick up and test every dead bird.
    • The UC Davis Wildlife Ecology Genetics Laboratory receives a sample of all the birds submitted to the Dept of Health.
    • We analyze those samples for DNA and will determine whether magpies, crows, and jays in California have suffered a loss in their genetic diversity due to West Nile Virus.