Omg Help!! Bad Day

Big tears Its on the floor just sitting there, I'm sure its blind one eye is so swollen it's shut and the other looks sore but doesn't seem to have any reaction or blink reflex it's turning its head left and right left and right. The parents are sitting on a roof top with the other baby but weren't really near the one that had fallen down
 
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Is there no wildlife rehab near you? If you post on facebook someone may be able to recommend one, if its all infected it may need that cleared up or if it is blind how will it manage in the wild?
 
It will be swinging its head left and right to get a proper view of what's going on.
Birds use both eyes to pin point the exact distance to make a landing. and the wider setting of the eyes on the head (either side for prey species) means they have a wider visual surround hmm panoramic view if probably a better description.
Birds don't blink like we do either they use their third eyelid to blink and at speeds the human eye has trouble detecting. https://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/bird-brain/do-birds-blink
Read this it explains it better than I can but you will read in the third paragraph down "Small birds can blink so fast with each head movement that human eyesight is unable to register it." That's why you don't think it's blinking as it's doing it so ruddy fast. The eye that is now swollen and closed is probably the issue in the location of where to fly to to land. Being young and inexperienced takes time to get a bearing, clumsy as it's newly fledged and half of its distance location switched off as the eye is swollen.
If you ring your vet they will take it in and they can claim the money they spend on treatment back from the RSPCA. They will more than likely also know of somewhere for it to go and a lot of the bird rescue places will go and collect from them.
Wildies are known to be tougher than we think. There are lots out there surviving and thriving with missing legs, missing eyes etc we just don't notice them as much as we don't pay attention to things blipping around all the time, it's just when we focus on one particular one or attention is brought to one that we notice.
 
Ah hope this sorts itself out, loads of good advice already, sorry you are having a bit of time of it atm hun :)
 
Managed to get to the bird of prey center and they were fairly good and took the bird and had a quick look while I was there and said they were going to get the vet to see it and see if medicine will help, then after 24 hours off to rehab. I gave a donation as well
 
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