Collared Scops Owl juvenile

Viv,It might pay you a visit again!Keep us informed. If it left its nest and went into the thicket below ,it would find some food. i think that it is at a point that if it finds food it might be able to survive without its parents. and down in the thick bushes ,it should be a little safer from the predators! Lets keep our fingers crossed!

Ah, so nice!!!

Awesome Viv, I would love to see that.

@ ShannaB - The man and his monkey were back again this morning harvesting the Areca nuts ............ there will be video and a posting soon hopefully.

Great story Viv! I hope it got rescued by its parents - I think you did all the right things for it. On another note... wow, trained monkeys harvesting coconuts... amazing. (Maybe they mistook the owlet for a coconut and carried it down with them, hehe!)

Oh now that is just too cute for words!

Thanks Liam for the ident on this little cutie : )

Thanks Christy for all your advice. It seemed strong and healthy so I think it stood a good chance if the parents were around. I'd actually forgotten until just now that they were harvesting the coconuts here yesterday. They use trained monkeys to harvest the fruits from the very tall trees that they cannot reach with bamboo + hook, so it's possible that the nest was shaken during this taking place.

Nice job, Viv! I think you did the right thing...even though you'll probably never know what really happened. We get a lot of baby birds of prey in to our facility that people think are abandoned by the parents because they're sitting on the ground...even though the parents are still feeding them. If we know where they came from, and the birds are healthy, we put them back (usually we're not so lucky!). Sounds like the baby was making food cries, so I'll cross my fingers too that the parents' have him now. Sorry for bugging you about the food being processed...I'm so used to it here where everything is processed...it's rare we get anything so freshly slaughtered.
Again, wonderful effort!

Thank you all for your advice and suggestions.
I made a temporary home outside in the fruit garden where it stayed all day, feed the owlet some raw beef last night that had been bought from our local market so it would not have been processed in any way, believe me, the animals are slaughtered and sold immediately. It became very perky and started making some noise as soon as it got dark, so I returned it to a tree near where it was found earlier in the day, I thought the parents would hopefully hear and respond. Waited at a distance, checked on it a couple of times then had to do some work and then next time I checked the owlet had gone. There is thick jungly undergrowth around so it would not have been possible for me to go looking for it.
Fingers crossed it was found by the parents.

I am talking to a rep from a wild life person and he recommends putting it back As Soon As POSSIBLE because owls imprint to humans very easily and they could be dangerous. If you can not put it back that is the BEST IDEA..
Please ask ZOO or Rehab Centre for advice.Please find some one one who specializes in wild life and keeping an owl is very very dangerous,especially if you have kids around.
This feed back is from the Lindsay Wild Life Centre.
You can communicate with them through me. Keep me updated of what you have tried so far. They are willing to give suggestions on trying out different things as we go along.
It looks perky and healthy so obviously something is taking care of it.
Or put it in a basket and secure it with rope on tree.
Leave it and let it be and periodically check on it.
Minimize talking and looking at it. Do not give it anything to drink or eat either.
Should be okay if fairly recent.Best place for it to grow up with is it's mom.

Looks like a juvenile Scops-Owl, Collared Scops-Owl (Otus lettia) being most likely in your area.
I echo Christy's suggestions!
I found a website on Thailand animal rehab center, maybe you could contact them: http://www.wfft.org/

Raptors are very different and need special care. Like I mentioned before, if the owlet doesn't get the proper food, he'll become malnourished - we see this regularly at our facility. People don't understand how much chicken and steak is processed...it does NOT have the nutrition the owl needs. if there is any way someone can kill you a fresh chicken, that would be better...you can cut some up and freeze some fresh and use that...although just freezing the fresh meat makes it lose some nutrition. Again, mice would be the best. With the water, you can just put a small bowl of water in the cage/box...at his size, he should be able to use it. Is he thin? Can you feel his keel? (this is the bone between the breasts...should have meat/muscle on either side). He will have to eat several times a day - about the amount of 2 good-sized mice each time. Good luck getting him to a vet...that would be ideal. Maybe you could start up a Raptor Rehab center??? ;-)

Awwh... I love owlets! :3 But... was your neighbor *sure* that it was abandoned by its mother? It's best to leave them where they are. Most young offspring are where they should be, unless you witness otherwise (through surveys and monitoring of the specific individual and not a snap decision).

I have been faced with this several times.
i was asked to put the dove fledgling inside a card board box and keep it home in a dry ,dark and warm place and not give it food or water. i had to keep it overnite since I found it in the evening.The hospital hours were 9 to 8.
Well when I took it over the next morning,the vet examined it and her first preference was to put it back from where i had found it. After i explained how
the fledgling was in an unsafe location and had tried to cross the road did she decide to keep it. A good thing though ,because they had to treat it with antibiotics because of an injured ankle.They kept it for a month and released it in reserve after a month.
usually keeping the fledgling back where you found it should work fine.That was the vet's first preference

Tan bello esa mira..

Viv,
They do not open till 9. I went to their website and they have some good info.
http://wildlife-museum.org/hospital/foun...
Also they have a link on International Wild life Rehab Council,
http://theiwrc.org/resources/emergency
With best wishes to you and the owlet!

You could try giving it water with a dropper. If its mum and dad aren't around you'll probably need to keep it warm too. Don't really know what else to suggest. : (

Oh... We are pretty lucky here, it's easy to care for rescued animals because Australian vets are obliged by law to assist with native animals and pet shops have ample supplies!!

You could add it to my new Rescue & Rehab mission... I've set the mission to a radius in Australia because I had to, but I'm sure you could add it anyway! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1013...

No pet shops here ShannaB.

Oh my goodness, it is SO SO CUTE!!!!! I can't really help you with care tips, we do reptiles. (My hubby would probably look that and say 'snake food'!) ; ) Do you have a vet there? I don't know what sort of pet shops you have access to or what they offer... we usually get frozen baby mice etc. from pet shops in Australia.

@Blaise. Some of the locals thought it was a young Brahminy Kite, they had never seen an owl before. I just cross everything and hope we can rear it but I'm a little doubtful I have to say

Mmmmm! Thanks Ashish. Two animals I have yet to come across here. It's just eaten some raw beef fillet steak though. There are no centres here that I am aware of that care of injured wildlife so will just have to do our best with peoples suggestions and what I can find on-line for now.

Daniele, Laura, Malcolm and Nance may help you for feeding options... As per my knowledge.. Owls like Rats or Mouse in their diet.