I had a big sea bird stuck in my balcony inbetseen the metal bars. I got him out and lifted him up from under the feet and he flew away over the roof tops.
When I remove threads with a cutacle scissors then I am all quiet, or I say some nice sounds at first, and look at her and close my eyes, to calm her. She did it perfectly, the pigeon flew downwatds to the ground at first and did not seem afraid. I work as quick as I can and concentrate only on this until I can release her. If the other pigeons have flown away, I wait until they are back, or she can get a shock and I had a few like that and they never came back. I think they might have died. They are always together. It happened once and I kept the pigeon in my arms for a few minutes and they were back as I had all the hemp seeds on the ground. They can fly away when they get scared by running children or high noises.
Thanks! I was about to "rescue" a Canadian goose from a huge parking lot when I realized there was a second one and a nest full of eggs. Two feet away from me! Yikes.
I remember the days before plastic bottles and plastic packaging. When everything was package in glass bottles, metal cans, or paper, usually waxed. All disposable or recyclable with NO issues, and not environmentally harmful. Why can't we just go back to DOING THAT?
It’s kinda interesting that not only they stay to asses the situation, but they try to attack the predator, most prey birds attacked while foraging just flee and surely don’t stick around for a captured chick, let alone a buddy.
Thanks, this is great - I'm trying to catch a goose that has fishing wire wrapped around his ankle and is loosing his foot. This has been going on for six months and we can't catch him. His foot has swollen up three times the regular size and it's breaking my heart. *Please educate yourself about feeding them bread, it's horrible for them. It fills them up so they don't eat food they need to eat to get nutrients such as calcium and niacin for strong bones. It also create the bad algae that destroys everything in the water.*
Did you catch the goose? I catch a lot of Canada geese with fishing gear related injuries. The trick is to set them up so you can sneak up behind them when they have their head down. So easy to catch when you learn how to do it.
I must have caught 100 pigeons by now since 2018 to 2024. I have a thin nail scissors in my bag to cut off all threads and human hair, and gently remove them. I catch them when they eat and they don't see so much, over the wings and hold it quickly on my chest, so it calms down and can not flap its very strong wings. Then I prefer to sit down, put it upside down with head towards me and cut as fast as I can and let it away to the ground, I give it seeds after quickly, it don't get afraid. I try to take all threads off, also the stuck ones. I don't pull threads more into the foot but go around the toes and away. All the pigeons seem happier when one who can't walk gets freed of its threads.
Good job! I always carry small sharp pointed nail scissors and some good quality tweezers. You can really get it all out that way and pretty quick. Turn the pigeon up on its back and sit something like a cap over its face to make it extra calm. It is very very easy and you get the hang of it pretty quick.
If you don't know, sadly some Pigeons end up losing almost all theyr foots due to this... If a pigeon loose more than 3 fingers they can'tbe released bc the foot is almost destroyed, and when they search for food they mostly walk than fly, and it hurts for them. Know by someone who rescued Pigeons for years, and have some that sadly can't be released due to this
I did catch one yesterday. Who was injured by wires arpund the feet. First time as i hopr i didnt damage its chest by holding it firm. As someome else had to cut the rope. And we succeeded without any harm to the feet. When it flew away it did poop. I hope i did good. It couldnt walk on the foot and now it can. So can you tell me if firm is harmful because it didnt flew back to say thank you. And i did see some more animals that flew back to show their gratefulness. So sad no one else tried to catch it and looked at me as if i am a weirdo. But i couldnt let it just lose it foot and missed the train for 2 hours. At least the wire is off now.
It’s hate it when they try to resist you after you catch them, as if they can exercise free will. Someone needs to explain to goose that it no longer has any agency or self determination so that things be easier going forward.
I deal with pigeons on a regular basis as a rescuer - when I first decided to do this though, I put together a little kit I could carry in a pocket. It had scissors (different types), cream (for sore feet), some gauze (in case of a bleed) - you get the idea. With strings wrapped around the feet, always make sure to cut through them - even if you don't feel you can remove the string because it's embedded, cutting the string will help with circulation and prevent traumatic amputation of toes/feet. As for my kit, it's grown into a bigger bag with a lot of other things of use in there - I take it with me when I go to town, just in case.
I could've used your help yesterday as I was so close to a pigeon that has this same problem. It was losing circulation around it'd foot because of string but nobody was around to help me cut the string off. Nothing I could do alone unfortunately. I could tell it was in distress. Poor little things deserve so much better on this planet than what we have left them.
There’s this family of pigeons in my school and every recess I’m trying to catch them with my hands to show off it to my classmates but every time I’m close it flies away closest I’ve got was about 40 cm
