Can you tell what I am holding? This is an example of what was brought to me to raise. These babies birds can be fed and care for successfully, by people that know what to do. This little guy survived and bit me before flying away as a beautiful bluejay.

The best part of being a rehabber of wild birds, was getting them healthy and able to care for themselves, and release them. I was an operating room nurse for a lot of my working life, so I often sutured and bandages the birds myself. In fact I remember being brought a peacock with a clean cut of the belly. I sutured it with bright blue skin suture. I thought that would be the easiest suture to find again and remove. I clipped the peacocks wings to allow it free run of an open pen but contain it until it healed. That bird took flight, clipped wings, suture and all!
That was very unusual.