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Hey since you’re the one who made the post about finding fledglings, do you know what to do if you find an egg on the ground? I found a very small (I think sparrow) egg on the ground quite a ways from any potential nests and I can’t tell if it’s cracked or not? Like it might be cracked and leaking fluid which is attracting insects but this isn’t the first egg I’ve found, do you know what to do? Or why there are full (Sometimes hollow, sometimes not) eggs on the ground?

Well, the unfortunate fact is that, if incubation is interrupted and temp drops during fetal development, the chick is probably not going to make it. It depends on the species and the time and the temperature, obviously, and I am not a birb development expert by any means, but if you’re not sure how long it’s been there… it’s probably a no-go. (I know from experience that fertilized chicken eggs can still hatch after several days out of incubation, but that’s at high summer temps, and chickens are not songbirds.)

if it’s dead or cracked, although it won’t become a bird, it will still provide a great source of food for other animals, so worry not, it will still be useful to nature! Just leave it where you found it and it will be scavenged by rodents, insects, or other birds! 

And generally the reason that eggs are on the ground is either wind or predation (if a predator is disturbed while taking an egg, it might drop it intact). 

you are working so hard, and i am so proud of you! you are always willing to go out and try new things, even when they’re terrifying and don’t always go your way. you have some of the most diverse and interesting knowledge to share with us. and your insights into the day and various art is always a joy in which to partake. i really appreciate you as a person, mica, and i want to say thank you for everything, and kiss lucy on her silly puppy head for me.

….I really appreciate the thought, anon, but every time someone sends me something like this, my paranoid side comes out and I just can’t shake the thought that it’s my mother  

so, anon, if you’re someone other than my mother, thank you! this is very sweet!

mama, if this was you, I fucking told you not to read my blog, what the fuck. BOUNDARIES.