I'm in a 6th fl apartment and from my window this morning I can see a bird occasionally flapping in a weird way – I suspect it's gotten stuck somehow (video attached).

Any thoughts on what I can do? The only idea I have so far is to find the apartment entrance across the street and knock on their door. It may be hard to get access though.





by omdbaatar

19 comments

  1. Welcome to reddit. Where people see a problem/witness suffering and before they knock on someones door they ask reddit if they should knock on someones door.
    Humanity is over.

  2. in which Katon are you located? You can google Tiernothilfe in your area

  3. Knock their door or call 117 or the local police. But you need to act quickly! This bird can die

  4. Write a post on reddit.

    You can wait now, cause you did something.

    Check reddit the next day.

    If bird dead, then you know at least for the next time.

  5. The best thing to do is to create a Reddit post. You have done what you were able to.

  7. It’s a swallow (schwalbe). Tell your parents to handle it maybe.

  9. In Switzerland, there are several reliable organizations that handle animal protection, depending on the region. You can do a quick Google search to find useful contacts. In this case, the Fire Department will probably need to intervene with an aerial ladder.

  10. Looks like a swallow or swift. They die fast becsuse their Metabolism is fast. Call non-emergency firefighters or go knock on this persons door (but where the bird is, I wouldn’t try to free it yourselves, too dangerous).

    Doves are harder to rescue, as they have a bad stance (but no living creature deserves to die by starvation).

  11. Thanks to all the people who gave actual legit feedback. I’ve been working on it. I speak minimal French and rarely access emergency services here and am trying my best.

    For the people who are complaining I ask Reddit, at least in the future if someone needs this kind of advice it’ll come up, if they filter out the judgemental pieces.

    UPDATE: Bird has been retrieved!

  13. Thank you for helping the poor animal. Not many people care enough to do anything. You have a good heart.

  14. I hope most of you guys who cheer up to safe the bird are vegetarians. Otherwise you are a hypocrit! “Safe the bird! Oh look that yummy chicken brest on my BBQ”.

  15. Thanks for trying to help this poor bird. I hope you have found a solution from the comments here.

  17. I’m unable to figure out how to post follow up photos but the bird was carefully plucked out and put in a box and some impressive fire truck ladder usage for this.

    Thanks for the tips, folks, on making this better! Hope the bird makes it.

  18. Not ask reddit?
    Use some braincells and call firefighters?

    I bet in the future we gonna see terrorist attacks or wars and have a president ask reddit first what to do instead of actually doing something….

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